I am binging on Behind Closed Ovens, so I just now saw this, but I wanted to tell you that I learned how to play black jack at PSR. For the non-Catholics, Parish School of Religion is where those of us who went to public school were obliged to learn how to be good Catholics, one night a week. We felt sorry for the…

Yeah, that bill was proposed here, in MO. That douchecanoe state rep proposed it last year, along with a bunch of other crazy-town bullshit, and it never made it out of committee then, and it won't this year either. Missouri might have a bumper crop of out-state anti-choicers, but many of those folks also don't want…

My 'burb has a local Swap-n-Sell facebook group, where we post stuff we don't want and others can trade or purchase it. Most folks have a tub on their porch where they leave the sold stuff for the buyer to pick up, and we leave the $ under the door mat, or there will be a coffee can, or some such. Twice in the past…

OMG the camp stove episode! My husband and I cried while watching this when it was first on TV... I was crying with laughter, him, well, not so sure why he was crying.

Never saw The Happening.
Am trying to imagine a movie worse than Highlander 2....

hmmm.... family show? Lion King live? Elf live? There's a musical version of Secret Garden that is lovely, too. Most of the shows we did in high school back in the day wouldn't work... West Side Story (rape scene), Kiss Me Kate (sexist bullshit), Music Man and Oklahoma might be ok....

Pro-choice. American. Been to Ireland. Loved it beyond reason.

I think Sub-English answered your question already, but I was also trained by NARAAL and volunteered at a particular clinic (there are two in my area, but one needed more help than the other at the time) about one Saturday a month. There would usually be a few of us there, guiding cars into the parking lot and…

I think Sub-English answered your question, but just in case! I was trained by NARAAL and volunteered one Saturday morning a month. I had a bright vest that said "ESCORT" on it, and when a car turned into the lot, another escort and I would guide it to a parking spot and then open the doors to the car and start…

I was working through NARAL also, and your description of what we did/do is dead on.... help patients out of their cars and start talking. "how was your drive?" (clinic was in an area with no parental consent laws, so you would have patients come from 5 or 6 states) "what a lovely scarf", "hope you didn't get caught…

Are the midwestern ones getting nasty again? I used to do that, back in the 90s... The de-frocked Catholic priest (how often are they de-frocked? I really want to know what he did to re-join the laity) and his gaggle would sing hymns and I would sing along. Bugged the crap out of them. And the gal we called Tammy…

Did I read that correctly in the last sentence? You will not order ribs? How do you live without ribs? The first page in our family recipe books is ribs. My favorite childhood birthday dinner was ribs. Our local Lions Club makes most of its annual budget selling ribs. We have contests about cooking ribs. Ribs…

I will now show this to my husband, who eats the rind on the brie and gives me a hard time for removing it. In other news, I once had a friend who put her husband on a high-citrus diet in an attempt to change the flavor of his semen. She swears it worked. Also, I got coffee today from a place that is local, even…

The Vanishing Hitchhiker and The Choking Doberman were seriously influential! All Hail Brunvand!

St. Louis has an amazing zoo (no, really, they win awards and it's FREE), and I was in line at the penguin exhibit (yes, there was a line, it was new and awesome) by the pool where the warmer-weather penguins were swimming around with a pelican. I asked the guy scraping up poo and cleaning the exhibit about the…

I hope at some point in our dystopian (or utopian? It could go either way) future, it is possible to make a gif into a tee shirt. In which case, I want this one. It reminds me of one of my girlfriends, a lawyer with flame red hair and an attitude to match, who turned to a guy who was pestering her, really annoying,…

First, I wish to commend you on your screen name. Second- I went to a small school and was part of the Greek system. I was never hazed. To my knowledge, none of the sororities did. The fraternities had some mild hazing, such as the pledges were not allowed to talk to non-members outside of class in the week before…

Been a practicing Wiccan for about 15 years. I hardly even drink... wouldn't recognize meth if it jumped up and bit me. I concur with MizzAnthropist- fuck that lady.

Mo'ne's success makes me so happy.... I know she wants to go to UConn and play basketball, but I really hope she goes into baseball. Watching the playoffs with my daughters, one of them asked why there were no girls on the field, other than those obnoxious 'cheerleaders' that follow Fredbird around. There are no…

In my best Grim Reaper voice..."It waaaaaas the salmon mousse!"