He's from Israel—-I don't expect people in other countries to have the same racial etiquette (I know that's a very poor term for it—but I couldn't think of a better one) that people in the US have. I worked at a summer camp with a mostly European staff and had to explain to some of them that the racial language…

I bought my kindle 1st, the old white plastic one and then bought my iPad. The kindle app for ipad is fantastic, and I definitely use it more often. Amazon could care less, probably. They make money from all of these stupid books I've purchased.

because that is Nate Silver—-the guy who used all of the complicated statistics to get to the exact same result.

Little Debbies are the best (I think)

Actually, if someone is already on a very very low eating disordered diet, oatmeal paste actually could help to eventually kill them. A person of regular weight, without any disordered eating, won't instantly suffer from malnutrition from this diet tip. But for a person who is struggling with a serious eating disorder…

This interview would have been very dangerous for me to read 6 years ago when I was in the middle of Anorexia. I would have been all over that suggestion about eating "dried oatmeal paste" unfortunately. Rational thinking goes out the window when you are dealing with an eating disorder—-or at least it did for me. Did…

We SHOULD be proud of ourselves, and we are.

I loved Little House too, and I remember being so annoyed that the tv show was so completely different than the books. I loved both, but the differences were kind of difficult to work with as a 3rd grader.

Cite the quote or it didn't happen.

Exactly! Some shows take that "very special episode" angle, but Downton isn't like that and I don't think it should be. It would be different if they were actively writing around a diverse issue to keep the show lily white.

Downton is set in Yorkshire. I doubt that many people of color were working in service in the homes of Earls during this period. When you look at the group photos of the actual servants who worked at Highclere Castle in the 20s and 30s (where parts of the series is filmed) they were an all white staff. When you think…

must be the down payment. :)

I was coming here to say this too. Unless she donated the cash to charity, I guess.

Seriously. Even when there is just a prediction of 2 inches of snowfall Action News gets everyone to freak out about it. You won't be able to find bread or milk by Sunday night.

Maybe I just always get the younger servers I guess, I don't get much fancier than old ebbitt's grill and Ruth Chris around DC :)

No, I haven't made enough trips down south, unfortunately. And even when I lived in orlando for a semester I never even made my way to a waffle house (shameful, I know) I'm an east coast Massachusetts/DC/New York/Pennsylvania person mostly.

Wait staff are almost always college kids when I go out to restaurants. The idea of an "Alice" diner waitress in 2012 is so completely foreign to me.

The only real advantage I can see about the mini is that I could have a smaller tablet and not have to reinvest in a bunch of apps. The kindle fire is really nice, and sometimes it would be nice to have a smaller tablet that would go in a purse instead of a messenger bag, but I've spent way too much on ipad apps in…

This drives me crazy. I've reported rape in Pennsylvania and the process is absolutely horrible. To force women to report their sexual assaults and have the attitude that it wasn't sexual assault if they didn't report it is just disgusting.