Its funny how without direction kids just pick up things. My now 2yo daughter got so cross at my wife when she tried on some new shoes which had super sparkly gold straps. She wanted to wear them so bad she would not let mommy wear them. She now has her own pair. Though she still borrows high heels that are left in…

I have always felt the entire Bond enterprise was camp no matter how hard they tried to make it “serious” it still clings to the whole super-spy action hero nonsense. Why not embrace the camp some while mocking the silliness of Bond.. like make it about an actual effective spy or spies trying to do their work and keep…

I have one in reverse, my mom was a secretary at a college here and sometimes they would show free movies on campus that she would take me to as a kid. Someone told her Rocky Horror Picture Show was hilarious... So she took me without knowing a thing abut the movie. I think I was 7 or 8 at the time. I don’t think we…

My middle is Ashley because my sister was into Gone with the Wind when I was born maybe the book was better but I’m not thanking her for that one. But when we had our daughter and needed a name to go with the middle my wife wanted (a cousin’s name who had had recently lost a long fight with ovarian cancer) for our new…

Almost ten years ago for our tenth anniversary we traveled to Thailand. Amazing place loved northern Thailand and the people were always so friendly. We were sure that by buying tickets murphy’s law would require that we would get pregnant and be unable to go. (Ok, ok, she was trying and I was finally accepting.…

The guy is a convicted felon, what he did was a vile use of the public trust placed in him and dishonors all public safety officers. Getting his viewpoint beyond a sound bite over his refusal to accept his own guilt is just giving this filth a louder voice and using interest in the trial to bring in viewers. The only…

I don’t understand why the victim’s prior records (unless it is one of fraud/blackmail) have anything to do what that sack of shit did to them. Though I can understand that poor presentation to the jury will make it harder if there is little to no other evidence to back up the claim. Also when dealing with police as…

Sorry, but there are many reasons a jury is selected from people who do not know you. They can testify if there is a trial but I am sure he will just plead guilty. I feel like they already lost their mother no need to make them make a decision in the moment about their father that cannot be taken back as well.

Yea, and by the way thank you for working such a tough job with so little support. (And I mean all of you here) I have a co-worker who used to work at a county mental health facility here and I don’t ask for stories anymore...

Agreed, I also would like to see more research into what goes wrong and improving the tools to diagnose and treat people who are effected by these problems. As my likely ignorant outside view has been that for many of the drugs in use have some not so terrific side effects which can lead to people stop taking…

Damn it Jezebel, I'm trying sneak in a quick morning read or two at work and you got me weeping so much my shirt sleeves are wet. (out of tissues) I empathize so much with this girl's story I remember starting junior high a happy gifted child and exiting high school a miserable lonely wreak barely passing. And if I…

I'm so sorry for you (and the others with similar experiences).. but at the same time glad you came out of it safe. I just don't understand men who behave this way. I keep hearing that the collective can be smarter than the individual but for some men it seems to bring out a latent thug/moron. (I want to use worse…

I would like to pretend I am an awesome parent and that my 7yo son buckles himself every time and is perfectly behaved. But that would be a lie I have to nag him almost every time that and getting it through his thick skull that he needs to do all of his homework every day or he will be punished gets tiresome. But…

While yes in an ideal world seatbelts and shoulder restraints would be there. The mass of the bus and raised passenger area is usually enough to protect them in vehicle collisions. And lets be frank no bus driver has time to yell at a bus full of kids to get them to put on the seatbelts in the first place.

What... don’t be knocking key lime! That’s fighting words...unless you are talking about those crappy pale lemon pies that use gelatin and a normal pie crust those can burn in hell... and then you say dairy free meringue... and I’m like.. waaa? Anyway I hope you feel better.. sorry I don’t have a picture of my…

But would putting on that sweater require a concealed weapons permit? So would this dress be OK in a open carry state like Texas?

I am so sorry to hear of your difficulties. We burned through our lifetime insurance limit on IUIs to get our first with more stillbirths and OB/GYNs dumping us for being "too risky" than I want to contemplate. A couple of years later when the inevitable itch for number two hit us. We knew we couldn’t do the IUI…

Agreed, I find it offensive that these people cannot understand that this is just a belief on their part and that taking away another’s ability to make very personal choices about their own bodies and lives is just as vile as the person who forced this upon the victim. And making the hypocrisy worse is when some of…

Agreed, as soon as this stuff started blowing up in the news I was worried about escalation. And like clockwork the jerks and bigots came out empowered by state sponsored fear mongering. I applaud the Justice department’s actions though I have no illusions that it will stop the increased harassment anytime soon.…

Eww... Ewwe.. eww .. eww.. must un-see this whole thing... though now I do miss my Ouiji cat.