Side note: I was out in LA for my b-day in and there were several of these Vanderpump Rules people at the bar my friends and I were (getting wasted) at. Anyway, apparently "Stassi" is a person on the show (according to my friends)... and she was ordering a drink next to us at the bar and her card got DECLINED. I've…

Those shoes are so ratchet that she left the price tag on the bottom.

Wait, they aren't the same person?

I still have the creeper photos I took from my desk if you need evidence.

if you are mildly human shaped just show up at SUR with a twenty dollar tip and he will probably let you see it for yourself.

She's slept with both but i'm mildly interested in the 35 year old bartender who can't seem to get it together, lies about everything and rarely keeps it in his pants. I can fix him.

My pants were too tight.

Kate claims she was very chill, Ellie claims Kate was very flushed.

her favorite descriptor is "ratchet"

And this is the man that chairs the Senate committee on Science, Space and Competitiveness. Its so very very sad.

God, there are plenty of people on the right just as bad or worse as Cruz ideologically, but I don't think any of them are as repulsive in every aspect as he is. No one else has that constant simpering jerks-off-in-a-mirror expression or that "I'm so taken with my own cleverness I can barely form a sentence" delivery.…

Just a gentle reminder here not to put your criminal activity on Facebook, unless you'd like it to serve as a testament to your absolute and shattering idiocy.

They're diverse in that one has white hair, and one has grey hair; also, one parts his hair on the left, and the other doesn't use a part. OBVIOUSLY.

These stories always remind me of the Michael Scott Diversity Training

i cant take terrence howard seriously AT ALL

With two sets of DNA myself I find myself ...wondering why this comment posted by Maja was so abrasive. It is articles such as this that foster conversations...and learning happens. So we were "schooled" by your comment but please know that "you" do not speak for ALL of "us" fellow DNA gifted.

In Greek it's spelled Ἔχιδνα , which would be Romanized as "Echidna."

I really love these pieces, Stassa (hi, from MJ, btw). But I wonder if there is also a piece to this that less about fear and more about power and beauty as you suggest in closing. Human chimeras who have absorbed their invisible twins need not to have consumed another, nor be haunted by a genetic ghost. Perhaps…

Disappearing twins aren't the only form of human chimerism––widespread low-level chimerism was recently discovered in a study of mothers and children; there are literally parts of us that are our mothers and vice versa. There is also mosaicism where people have cells with different genotypes even though they developed…

There are also cases of human chimeras that have both male and female karyotypes and yet appear unambiguously one sex or the other. Which kinda throws a wrench in the whole "you can never change your chromosomes" biological essentialism that trans people get beaten over the head with. Yay for biology being complicated!