For me it was Fiona, Tori Amos, and Sarah Maclachlan. Oh, and a Madonna cassette tape with an insert that smelled like patchouli.

That video is awesome! The concept... the little boys dancing... her dress....

This is heartbreaking. No child should have to go through life with a name like those.

You know, I never thought about that before... of all the things he’s complained about, he’s never referred to Melania’s public displays of disgust. I wonder if that’s a sociopath thing or a megalomaniac thing?

That, and “friends and family.” He has no friends, and he’s not the type to “take comfort” in his family.

Wow, that letter made me well up a little. I hate being an empath.

That is EXACTLY how I read it, sentence for sentence.

“Water bankrupt” stood out to me, too, as a phrase I’ve never heard as an argument *for* animal agriculture! Maybe the meat industry crafted it as part of their self-justification, and now they believe their own misinformation.... It reminds me of an episode of This American Life, in which an interviewer investigates…

I think that’s all that needs to be said about that!

“Don’t start no shit, there won’t be no shit” -- my dad to me when I was trying to seek protection from my abusive brother.

Dodai, splinters hurt and make me cringe. I don’t like thinking about splinters. Injustice also hurts and makes me cringe -- I can’t deal with both at the same time!  Awesome concept, but please change the name!

Could we copy this trend for IUD insertions? Especially the part about drugs and alcohol? The ob/gyns near me don’t offer any sort of relief, other than suggesting I take an NSAID an hour before the appointment. So I did some googling to see whether NSAIDs are at all effective, and what other pain relief options are…

I would never use any baking powder other than Rollings Reliable baking powder!

About that first guy — aren’t there some diseases that manifest initially as personalities changing for the worse? Not just dementia, but other stuff — like traumatic brain injury? Did he bump his head at any point in this relationship?

You capitalize everything when you’re at Harvard.

I thought that was a picture of dentures with really tiny teeth. Being held by chopsticks. So your poor friend couldn’t afford dental care or even nice dentures but knows how to take his dentures out with chopsticks. Which is a great skill to have if he’s interested in social ladder climbing.

He looks a little bit like you, you know.

Well, he certainly has giant feet.

The ones that bug me are the salon photos showing the back of someone’s head and beautiful long hair... and then flip the image so it’s side-by-side identical heads with beautiful long hair. Why?!?

Name checks out.