I wanted to eviscerate Rip when he said “twelve.” Years upon years of lies and he couldn’t pull off a little white lie to save her near-to-shattered heart? What a monster.

It can’t be pleasant to feel that way. I want to agree with Tired Old Feminist and also say that this article is a call to focus on what we all need to learn to stop this violence. For me, a woman, it’s important to value and support women’s voices, to be aware and watchful especially for the marginalized and…

And the frappéd plants they serve as “juices” smell like that same diaper.

You’re generous to think the effort of learning was involved. In many cases, I think he just picked two words that were near each other in the dictionary. “voluminous volumes” for instance.

So much easier to make a weird, creepy wall of pills (that people will definitely try to steal, no doubt, @rooo) than standing up to the big pharma pill factories. And waaay easier than addressing the country’s multiple addiction crises of crack, heroin, oxy, etc and their core causes. It’s a (gross and pandering) way…

Thank you for pinpointing what grossed me out so much about the OLW. All his faux-feminism was bad enough, but I expected him to extol how wonderful he was for liking an ex-porn-actress (or some form of sex work) from the talk of living on her looks. So immature, judgemental, and misogynistic.

This is me, and my husband even moreso. Voracious readers and committed introverts, we both know far more esoteric words than can be slipped into everyday conversation - but words are neat so they must be used! Fortunately, we stumble around our vocabulary together and have no shame making mistakes in front of each…

It’s not the mammalian wildlife I worry about - here in Canada everything with fur could take me out, at least it’s out there. That frigging spider was coming through the door! It was in the house, ready to eat the slowest runner. Which is why evil bugs are the worst: they are in my space. Also, too many legs.

Oh, but women aren’t, like, people-people. They’re decorative property, keep-the-house-neat-and-the-kids-silent-people.

We have movements like Idle No More up here, and general outrage over the appalling racism, living conditions, and ignorance that Indigenous people face is growing. That said, I have lived here and in New England and the anti-Indigenous bigotry up here is on par with anything some Americans throw at racialized people.…

In our household, my fella and I both enjoy a bit of bottom play and there’s no enemas. We find generally it is pretty clean not long after a thorough bowel movement. And after a while, as the previous poster mentioned, you just kind of feel it.

In a more comprehensive investigation of panda clumsiness, the Toronto Zoo has compiled their own short film with a very stirring soundtrack:

Agreed on all points. I watched a bunch of monsters of the week before the 2017 revival and enjoyed their campy nonsense (even if many haven’t aged well) but the long-term arc stories... ugh. The revival was a reminder of why I stopped caring.

When my husband and I first got together, his 20-something libido did a number on my perimenopausal vagina and I was right where you are. Constant UTIs and other unfun stuff. After several rounds of antibiotics and probiotics and pure cranberry juice (gack) I learned my body’s favourite tricks:

Actors are contractors, like so many folks these days, though they do have unions (eg SAG, ACTRA) for some protection from traditional labour exploitation. They are retained for a limited term contract with all the perks and downsides that precarious labour market implies.

Promising recommendation, Evil Lincoln. I noticed it stars Paul Campbell, who is in several of the more charming, if utterly contrived, of the holiday fluff pieces that I put while attempting to unwind my brain during my time off. The predictability is soothing, but an hint of narrative creativity is a treat to find.

Oh hell, yes! I dvr a stack of these every year to nap to during the post-family, pre-new year’s quiet time. I am going to stay fully awake for once so I can do this with the schmaltziest one (using watered down booze; I don’t want formula-induced liver damage). Thanks!

Oh boy! It’s a trend: Mr leahaven switches between Chucks and Blundstones as they suit him, and he’s bisexual! What does this Shelton person know that we don’t???

White dudes have stand up and publically point out the the system is fucked and totally unbalanced so that the other white guys with power can clue into the inequity. They’re not going to listen to non-whites and/or non-men the same way as one of their own. It helps to have insiders as tools to break the domination…

I want to chime in with a thanks for keeping us informed during the transition, and for gamely responding to all the grumbling.