I have been thinking about trying it ever since I read this:

Yes, right, thanks.

From what I've learned here today, I'm pretty sure that if you dilute some shit until it is one part in 6 billion and then shake it in one direction near the affected individual, that'll do it.

I read about that too. I've been choosing to ignore it and continue to use tap water. So yes, everyone should definitely follow my second-ing of a recommendation for a health related product.

I second the recommendation of the gel (the only "natural remedy" I've ever really used, unless you count my neti pot). In fact, I just bought some more gel and cream yesterday on drugstore.com, because I've been using it so much lately. My mom was in the hospital recently and had roughly 100 things stuck in her…

I was thinking yesterday — I can't believe pinterest hasn't been namechecked on New Girl yet.

That has always been my (also an eldest daughter, of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter — the force is strong with this one) interpretation, yes. All of the supposedly good life-partner combos are "mixed" matches; i.e., two oldest is bad, two youngest is bad. So for an oldest girl, any good match is a guy with…

On the sibling thing — my working theory, which I am constantly looking at in families around me, is actually the opposite. This is a gross generalization, and obviously not true in every family, and I'm sure 1000 anecdotes could be offered against it right now. But it's my theory anyway: In families where there are…

I get that @aplusk is kind of a tool generally, but out of all his business, this seems really low on the list of stupid or criticism-worthy behavior. I read it as him making a good faith effort to avoid making any statement to the press about his wife/ex-wife. (Actually, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they have…

I also hope that his experience has made him sensitive to the fact that some prospective parents might agonize over pre-natal test results and apply their own equally valid moral and ethical belief system to the situation and decide that they would rather not subject a child to such a completely predictable lifelong…

Does anyone remember the visor that Ruth Ann wore on Northern Exposure? While I have long known that nicer lamps like this exist, and in fact have thought seriously about getting one, I still think of that visor whenever the topic comes up.

Ugh, anyone who utters the phrase "Democrat Party" is instantly dead to me. Likewise "Obamacare." I agree with you that it's all part and parcel of the abject pettiness and jerkwaddery (nice turn of phrase, by the way), but I think leaving off his title is pretty specific, and the underlying psychological process…

I would like to see someone cross-reference these research results with the research that shows how people don't make eye contact with fat people.

So true — my mom was in the hospital at the beginning of this month, and for 3 solid days I sat next to her bed and listened to the ICU nurses outside talk about pinterest.

As I saw in a Pinterest pin itself, "Pinterest: fantasy football for women."

Pinterest is also what I thought of when I read this post. It seems like 50% of the posts on there are wedding-related. I think people see other people's pins and like them, so then they create a Someday wedding board for themselves, even if they wouldn't otherwise be planning anything. I do the same thing with…

Are you telling me that still is not a picture of Kristen Wiig in a blonde wig, doing a bit about a lady wearing crazy things to cover up a neck brace?

To offer a counter-anecdote to a lot of the comments so far, I had a job where I had very positive experiences working in groups. I hated — HATED — working in groups all the way through all levels of school. For all the reasons Anna lays out in the post. And then I got in a job where I had to do it, a lot. As an…

Fair enough, I guess. I didn't know it was one of Flanagan's things to claim her age as a basis of anything.

Nope, you're right, I mistyped. I meant Irin's Salon review.