Our always-indoor cats will happily run outside first chance they get. They get about three steps from the front door, realize that this isn’t just some magical [indoor] room filled with chicken and fish and plastic bags to lick, freak out, and run back in. The furthest one got was down our stairs into the backyard,…

ALL the stars for the clip from Soap.

I think Bluelight.com was our ISP for a while. My ex thought that having reliable Internet access, with decent speeds (for dial-up) and actual customer service (which we had had, with a local company) wasn’t worth $15 a month, so we went with the crappiness of Bluelight.

Even if we achieve that—no murders, no suicides, no untreated illness—there will still be people who die in prison. The last three people in my family to die all died of illness for which they were receiving state-of-the-art treatment. If they had been incarcerated, they would have died in prison.

Yeah, at the time that seemed like a thing that was unlikely, but made TV-sense (it meant that Cliff was around to interact with the kids all day), but now it’s just creepy as hell.

And I said that I’d already made my disagreement known, more than once.

Did you see the part where I mentioned it was far too late in those particular instances? Because it was at least 15 years ago. Also, you’re assuming I haven’t done anything (I have, in fact, as far back as 25 years ago). The only reason I even chimed in to this discussion was that you were claiming that the only way…

It’s a bit late to challenge those. Also, I wouldn’t use those particular cases to challenge anything, because the parents specifically did not want to fight it. They had to live in that town.

Except Bill Cosby has, throughout his career, tied his personal life into his career. Much of his standup is about his family. While he is not Cliff Huxtable, the Huxtables have the same number of children (four girls, one boy) that the Cosbys had. Clair Huxtable has the same middle and maiden name as Camille Cosby…

Except that it does? Or it does me, anyway. I have to severely restrict my caffeine intake because it’s a terrible combination with my anxiety, and even decaf always works for me in that regard.

In many cases, yes. (I’ve known people who have been told their sons couldn’t join Cub Scouts because they were well-known to not be Christian. And it’s not like they could find a different troop; in small towns, there are often only one troop of any given age level.)

I graduated in 1988 and we said the pledge every single day, all the way through 12th grade. And we pledged to the flag every week in Girl Scouts, too, although at the start of every year, our leaders told us that if we didn’t choose to, we could stand or sit quietly instead.

If you live in a small town, you don’t have to talk about atheism to your troop for it to be noticed.

I was a leader of a multi-age troop that was made up of girls whose mothers were in the prison where I worked. GSUSA also are officially open to girls of any religion, or no religion. (I don’t know of any troops that have the same kind of affiliation with churches that many Boy Scout troops do, either. My Brownie…

It was never used to provide scholarships. It was an endowed professorship.

There’s a coffee place I go to that uses a heavier cream than most places do (still not actual “heavy cream,” but about twice the milkfat of coffee cream), and if I let my coffee get cool, I am utterly revolted by the layer of oil at the top of the cup. There is no way I could bring myself to drink coffee that had…

I love veggie pizzas, but I don’t even pretend they’re healthier. They’re just tasty.

The theory, at least, is that it keeps bananas from going brown/getting bruised as quickly. I think. I don’t have one. Bananas rarely last long enough to go brown in my house, and if they do, that’s what banana bread is for.

Makes sense. I might cut the kernels off half-a-dozen ears of corn a year, tops, so the “knife + tube pan” method works fine. For me, a corn cobber would be a dumb thing. For you, not so much.

Somewhere in my kitchen drawers lurk two small straw things specifically for sucking the juice from an orange. I couldn’t find a picture easily, but they are very short, wide straws with one jagged edge to pierce through the peel, and a sort of plastic grille inside to keep the pulp out. We bought them in Florida back…