As a lifelong jeans-and-t-shirt wearer who needs chunky sneakers that can accommodate my orthotics, I’d love a pair of sneakers that was some neutral monotone color, instead of the usual hot pink and neon purple with orange and yellow stripes (with white rims so they can show mudstains properly, of course). These…

“When spiderwebs come together, they can tie up a lion,” she told them.

How do we know you’re not a plant here?  And you’re definitely a hobbit.

I wonder whether anyone has ever asked them why we’re not hearing from thousands of distraught parents whose children have suddenly vanished?

Do you know his email address?  Want me to ask him?

The obvious solution here is to find someone with a lot of money who will fund a rescue effort, get some of that “animal anesthesia” into the after-dinner pipes of all the grown men in that colony in one night, and then kidnap/rescue all the women and children while they’re sleeping. Take the women and children to…

I hate that they added that “via Twitter” to the Margaret Atwood quote on the book cover. 

The expressions on the faces behind Trump, though: :-/

Well, if it makes you feel better, Luna wasn’t upset about Mufasa dying. She saw the image of Simba on the screen and was transfixed by this four-legged, 2-dimensional creature with huge eyes walking around on the TV screen! She was crying with excitement (“is that a kitty?  I wanna chase it and sniff it and be best…

Give us more details; maybe we have some suggestions. Is this a lifelong thing or just lately? Have you seen a psychologist or psychiatrist? What have you tried so far that didn’t work? Keep in mind that alcohol is a depressant, but, of course, if you’re drinking, you’re probably self-medicating for *something*…

I don’t know if this matters, but I just started listening to the Maron podcast, and he said he recorded his interview with Moore a couple weeks ago, so this quote from her would have preceded the NYT article.

Well, in that case, find someone who was recently diagnosed with tracheal stenosis and ask them if they’ll give you all their unused inhalers! ;-)

Hi, Kender and Saki. If your asthma isn’t responding to medications, you might want to google “tracheal stenosis” (or “subglottal stenosis”). I have idiopathic tracheal stenosis. It started in my 20's, when I started coughing during exercise. Eventually it got so bad, I would be out of breath after a single flight of…

Is anyone else haunted by the thought that all of our recycling is secretly being dumped into landfills, especially since China stopped taking shipments of recyclables from the U.S.?

“Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16,” Haslam said in a statement on Monday.

His hair is... *genetic*! I had no idea!

Well, darn.  I was thinking of trying weed for the first time to *fix* my anxiety and memory problems!  In any case, I don’t think your brain is dried-up coral.  This was all quite deep and insightful (although you lost me at the part about humans being failures for not penetrating outer space).

I think that still qualifies as “extreme empathy”... you think you inflicted pain on someone, and the thought causes you intense suffering, possibly long after the person you hurt has gotten over it. But I think that for every person you may think you’ve hurt, there are a thousand people you’ve absolutely, definitely h…

I was happy to see jinni in the comments today for the first time in a long time.

Good to see you, jinni. I know you’re an empath and I got worried when I stopped seeing your comments; life is hard for so many right now and I’m afraid you may have been suffering on your own and/or other’s behalf.  Thanks for the song; that one always puts a lump in my throat.