About five years ago, I was the victim of a true and honest to god conspiracy at my office. Where sexism comes into play is not who was perpetrating it (mostly women but some men) but how they used my gender against me. Some years ago a woman was hired for a job outside my division and for a far less high profile and…

It sure looks like they have evidence that it was a human, but my first thought was a hungry and delighted family of javelinas.

My parents took a trip through here in the 80s, and I remember this because my mother was reading one of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books with the running joke about Arthur Dent finding his suitcase that was lost in the Athens airport on another planet (with a half a bottle of Sangria still in it). My…

Monsieur Roland and I got a Roku, and we inquired about cutting the tv off entirely and just getting internet. Hulu Plus in HD is gorgeous on Roku. But, it was in fact cheaper to get the internet plus deal, which is crazy. And screw Comcast for not allowing us to get HBO through the Roku.

It's true. You see that in a lot of professions, not just business. In Hollywood, heaven & earth was moved to keep the public from finding out about Mel Gibson's rage issues, misogyny and antisemitism, until he he got older and wasn't a sure fire leading man anymore and his follow-ups to the Jesus movie tanked.

This is a great and thoughtful piece of writing. The only thing I will add is that I hate the fact that the conversation about rape and rape culture is centered upon wealthy, famous and powerful male television executives who spend a significant amount of time casting young talented women to appear naked and/or…

It's also very possible that she was developing a kind of dementia that involves losing impulse control, which could explain her failed driving test and why a sweet woman would pull out a gun and brandish it at police. That means she probably did need her license revoked, should not have been allowed that gun to begin…

It takes courage and grit to be a liberal and face down the true crazies in Texas. RIP Molly Ivins and Anne Richards, two great women who are very much missed.

That's an awful lot of murders for people that young. I'd say someone is living in a fantasy world, too bad they tried to make the fantasy real at least once.

My uncle has spent his life working and managing various ski patrols, and he's also an EMT. He loves the mountains, but he did develop a pretty severe case of PTSD since he's regularly carrying severely injured people and dead bodies off the mountain. Skiing is fun, but it always carries risk with it. I hope Mr.…

When I was in a rollover crash, someone hit me going 80 miles per hour on the highway and I hit the median and flipped, I didn't see it coming. I was completely calm during the entire thing and came to upside down still uncertain as to what had happened. I eventually wiggled out of the car under my own power, still…

Wouldn't it be funny if they had hired Justin Lookadoo as a corporate motivational speaker?

For a brief time in the 90s, I worked for the NFL as a floating temp, and it was a fascinating and very positive experience. I even answered phones for Tagliabue for awhile. "Mr. Taliabue, Mr. Butkus is on the line for you." I also helped book some incredibly famous acts for the sponsors superbowl party.

I attended a Star Trek wedding in my friends' back yard. A big part of the fun was finding a mini-dress and go-go boots that made me look like an original series crewmember. The ceremony was performed in Klingon.

I once got de-engaged, and a big part of the reason was my straight groom's groomzillaness. He wanted to put on a big show, whereas I was all like, um, Vegas would be fun wouldn't it? But he wanted to impress his clients (he really didn't have friends). So glad I jumped off that wedding industrial complex conveyer…

I was pleased that at the short news conference yesterday the NTSB refused to rule out any possibilities and refused any baiting questions that wanted them to speculate. I get why armchair netizens are speculating, that's what they do, but the people with a direct stake in the crash and investigation ought to keep…

Very smart to take twitter's word, since two people are confirmed dead.

People did get hurt, there are a number of critical injuries. There is also no official word of everyone having been accounted for, only twitter rumors. There actually seems to be a report that two people are dead.

The guy was doing something called Kundalini Yoga, which isn't so much yoga in that it's a complete and totally fraudulent cult where yoga involves holding your arms up for long periods of time and chanting and sometimes doing calisthenics. I took a few classes, and pretty soon they invited me to a retreat that…