Your story is upsetting because Texas should (in theory) be significantly more progressive than Sierra Leone. How shitty.

Love the look, hate the song.

It's good to read that the tax money is being put directly into solutions and ways to provide healthy food. Exactly the kind of cause-effect taxation that Republicans are so terrified of (because even a toddler can see that it works.)

Thank you, the Valium advice is good- I might ask if I can get a prescription before the appointment. Never taken it before but from what I gather it's more calming and less trip-tastic than twilight sedation.

This was a fascinating read, because I would say this is the top issue between me and my bf today. Does there come a point, though, when the details DO matter? Specifically, say we have a fight about him doing behaviour X, and we resolve it with him agreeing not to do X anymore, because it upsets me and he understands…

Thanks for that, not ENTIRELY helping with the 'diagnosed anxiety' part of the problem...

Thank you so much to you (and everyone) for the detailed advice. Given it's one tooth, I think I like the idea of local, unless the dentist says, "NO YOU WILL DIE OF PAIN." I had a horrifically painful abscess last week (the reason the tooth needs to go!), as in, waking up in the middle of the night screaming painful,…

But see, that's EXACTLY what I'm scared of. I'm not in the slightest worried about feeling/hearing scraping and pressure; I've had 4 adult teeth out before, and as a young teen no less, so my ickiness factor is low. I've never been sedated and it's exactly the idea of being sort of conscious, sort of not, that makes…

Impending wisdom tooth surgery and I'm getting very nervous. It's impacted but already erupted most of the way, and I'm only getting one out, so I'm REALLY tempted to just ask for local anesthetic- is that crazy? I'm not super great with pain, but I've had my pre-canines out with just local before, and I'm absolutely…

As to her relationship/sex arrangement: great, if everyone's cool with it, that's not selfish, that's consensual fun. But as to her reasoning that she's been denied oral pleasure, so she has the right to deny it in return now? There seems to be a vengeful edge to that that makes her seem like a bit of a dick (no pun…

I used that reason when I genuinely HAD my period to get out of swimming in high school, but my male dinosaur P.E. teacher didn't believe that girls could have periods longer than 3 days (urmmm) until my mom called in and cussed him out for being a sexist dumbass.

You know who those rich people's money should be going to, though? Not to a shitty private institution to let them give the directors bigger bonuses. To the government, through taxes, in order to fund schools and welfare and roads. Implying that it's acceptable to demand insane amounts of money from the rich to go to…

Nope, sadly Lyft hasn't made it outside the US yet! But I would happily use it if it did.

The guy sounds like a dick, BUT I also hate people getting all prudish about 'naughty words'. So much anger from just one article!

Does sound a bit like the police fucked up more in this case than Uber?

I think a lot of it is dumb kids going along with the groupthink because they want friends- obviously I'm sure there are genuine awful racists in there as well, but people will do and say crazy shit in groups that they'd never do on their own. Add in the all-white, Southern, privileged aspect and the result is almost…

Their statement is right- it seems like they have been putting in a team effort and supporting each other...in behaving like the most racist, sexist pigs imaginable. Sorry, no, pigs are adorable and don't deserve the comparison. Fuck these guys.

Aw man I preferred her when she was more known for dating Miles Kane (hot British mod rocker) and wearing gorgeous 60s outfits. Less hair advice and more of the Bardot fringe, please.

Pretty offensive and silly to blame it on a language barrier. Dolce and Gabbana clearly speak excellent English; they knew exactly what they were saying. Somehow most people who don't speak English as a first language manage to make it through the day without saying something horrifically offensive to a huge number of…

So they wasted resources investigating *her* innocence or guilt, rather than straight-up condemning the attack irregardless...