When I was 18, I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn't sentimental,so I threw out my diaries and hundreds of conversation-long notes that my friends and I had passed to each other. I'd give almost anything to be able to read all those again.

Thanks- I look for opportunities to show her off :)

This is my cat, Kamineko. Bow down before her superior cuteness.

I think the only thing that is guaranteed to get rape to appear is coddling and excusing rapists.

I wonder how much the selling price of such outfits would be.

Looking at a picture of someone is very different than looking at the person in reality. A picture is small, whereas if you're looking at a person you're used to keeping your eyes on their face- it would be too obvious otherwise.

This is one of the things that has bugged me about the show "The Middle", which is otherwise a pretty good show. The joke is that this family, who otherwise never seems to have a spare dollar, eats nothing but take out and prepared food. I grew up poor, and eating out was literally a once a year treat. We got…

I've got to say, I love these racist, bigoted old Republicans who keep popping up and admitting the truths that no one else in their party will admit. Come on, old men. Keep it coming!

Of course! I'd sneak books under my shirt and read outside. I'd read in bed by the light of the door open a crack. I got in trouble for reading in class. I read every place I could think I'd get away with it.

Has this show stood up well over time? I've heard so much about it, but have never seen it.

When I was growing up, my brother was only allowed to watch two hours of tv a day and, when he complained that it wasn't fair, I was only allowed to read two hours a day. To this day I'm not sure what was going through my parents' heads.

I wasn't a 'mean girl' in the way you're probably thinking. I had two best friends, and while we seemed united to others, it was always two against one within the group. I developed an ulcer at one point because I was so stressed about the fact that I never knew if they were going to be nice to me that day or not. …

Girls are vicious demons from toddlerhood till adulthood. I say this as a woman. I'm not sure how it evolved, but it's one of the reasons I didn't want to have kids. I can remember how passive-aggressively mean I could be, and all of my friends, and I just didn't want to have to deal with that if I ever had a girl.

I want to agree, but they came out after that one guy was locked in a police station holding cell for 5 days without food or water, got long-term kidney damage, and tried to carve a goodbye note to his mother in his arm.

If I see anyone write that they'd be willing to go through what these men did in order to get that money, I think I'll scream.

When I've had job interviews, I always wonder how much time to put into my hair and makeup. On a day to day basis, I don't wear anything on my face, and my hair is usually just in a low ponytail (if I'm feeling fancy, I'll french-braid it). If there are any HR people out there- do you actually care if women wear…

It makes me so mad to know that people are still so anti-science. I know a family whose child got the measles before she was old enough to get immunized. She recovered, but the virus hibernated in her and presented itself again when she was 12, but this time it attacked her brain. She went from a normal, healthy…

This woman is also against immunization. If that doesn't show that she's a complete moron, nothing will. I wish people would stop talking about her blog- I'm sure the hits only validate her.

What made it worse is that the guy was cheating on her even back then, and never stopped. She's left him 3 times over the years, but always goes back.

Ugh. I really wish it were ethical to get BC implants in all teen girls. When I was in high school, we had fairly decent BC education, and we all certainly knew how pregnancy worked and got started. However, my otherwise-smart friend somehow had it in her head that since she'd never gotten pregnant in the months…