It’s a miraculous vine from days of yore that bore the blossoms of every silk flower ever found in Hobby Lobby bargain bins!

Why is she gray? Why is she the shade of a No. 2 pencil sketch?

“The creation of a new kind of naturalism,” indeed! A single lush vine that can produce such a variety of flowers! I think I see lilacs, zinnias, chrysanthemums, asters, rose buds...? It reminds me of the ads in the backs of magazines for multi-grafted fruit trees that can produce a variety of different fruits on a…

Would it be appropriate for you or one of your friends to get those kids’ email addresses and offer to be pen pals of sorts?

DerbyDuck downthread just wrote “A good therapist is worth their weight in chocolate.” That would make a good cross stitch project!

I’m not often in a situation where I can log into Jezebel and post comments, but I’ve been thinking about you since you first posted that your husband was terminally ill. I cry every time I read one of your posts. I wish I could come over and give you a long, long hug and then take you and your doggy for a long, long…

Hi, jinni! I’m going to piggyback on your political junkies thread to say that, while reading the latest news about Trump’s views on women and domestic abuse, I followed some links back to this Hollywood Reporter article from October 2016, which I think deserves renewed attention now:

I like how her “shift” key protested the title of her latest book: “Beware: The Risks to Faith Based organizations regarding political advocacy and corporate sponsorship.”

This strategy of copying other people’s homework seems to be commonplace in the religious right. Christian rock tries to imitate actual rock music, pregnancy crisis centers masquerade as family planning clinics, and now they’re making anti-gay videos posing as Buzzfeed videos. Apparently trickery and deceit is okay…

As a recovering Catholic with plate guilt and food waste guilt, I wanted to star your comment, but for some reason the numbers under the stars are going down instead of up when I click them today! Please accept this star * instead.

That is my reasoning also. I’m noticing there are 3 types of “stackers” commenting: the compassionate ones who see servers as fellow humans and want to ease their burden in some small way, the OCD folks who feel compelled to stack chaos into order, and the somewhat more self-centered diners who care mainly about table…

Dangling boobs?!? Stop eating at Hooters!

You bring up something I’m afraid I haven’t paid enough attention to in the past — moving water glasses closer to the server for easier refilling, or lifting plates at the far end of the table to hand to the server so they don’t have to lose their balance to reach it. I’m gonna do that more often now!

If it weren’t for his poor reading comprehension skills, I would suggest that Derfel read “Don’t Shoot the Dog” by Karen Pryor. It explains the ineffectiveness of punishment to change behavior (of both humans and other animals).

I remember her in that movie but didn’t make the connection until now... new admiration for her acting skills, not just her comedy skills.

Um, are you in a baby-eating cult?

Especially since you can’t upload a previously-taken selfie. You gotta hold the phone up to your face right there in the presence of the app.

Or “Believe me.”

I used to work in HR. I can tell you there are a million reasons a person might not be hired that have nothing to do with that person’s qualifications. The hiring process is full of dysfunction and drama and craziness and randomness and I can’t begin to list all the reasons I’ve seen great candidates get passed over.…

Well, presumably Joanna, Bobby and Ellie each wrote 50 of these, and Bobby doesn’t need to worry about pregnancy scares, and at least one of the other two is on Yasmin.... and one of them is considering whether a child would take care of them in their old age. Or maybe they’re all single and abstinent!