Dave's Killer Bread is my bread of choice if I go store-bought, but these days the grocery store is such a fraught place (Oh! that looks yummy! FULL OF SOY) that I just make my own stuff 99% of the time anyhow. But I'll look into Trader Joe's bread too the next time I'm there!

The only thing I find shocking about this article is that L-cysteine is made of duck feathers, which I didn't know. Ah well. I am allergic to soy anyway and pretty much all mass produced bread is off limits anyhow.

Agreed. I am a vegetarian who looooooves cheese and I've been aware of the rennet thing for, like, ever.

Supposedly he had an Adult Friend Finder account...that used the same orange hair picture...

I don't really understand why anyone is fretting about this. I suppose you could have an annoyed grandparent whose name didn't make the cut, but I actually think it's really kind of awesome to have two hypenates then choose what parts to hypen for their offspring. This very suggestion was given by a woman who wrote an…

Isn't "not getting caught masturbating in a porno theater" what we invented the internet for??

Gasp! You mean someone opposed to women's bodily autonomy in the social/political realm is...personally opposed to women's bodily autonomy?

Voila the results of austerity and "deficit reduction"

OMFG I know this guy! Or knew him. Like for real. Grant Langston. eHarmony. YES. I lived in LA and he used to play in a country-rock band. His band was pretty good and he was cute and I had a crush on him. I went to see his band a bunch and got drunk and tried to kiss him...and I was super sad when he didn't want to…

People in good health do not need to be on medication... :(

I'm not sure of the science. You can peruse the Wiki article if you like (generic name: sibutramine). It's mean to be a reuptake inhibitor for the substance in your brain that suppresses appetite. So, for example, in people who are depressed, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI, the class of most depression drugs)…

Yeah the saddest part of the very sad story about the woman who died from Meridia was that she was "in perfect health" before going on the drug.

Pfffft. "Drunk all the time" *is* the kind of 50 year old I want to be.

It is always, always shocking to me as a white person how terrible and blatant this shit is both here and in other parts of the country. Consider my privilege examined :-/

How did you solve the straps issue??

EMILY stands for early money is like yeast.

Yeah I've been wondering recently when we'll hit the tipping point - 20 years? - where everyone running for office has embarrassing, drunk internet pictures on Facebook or whatever we're all using then and everyone will just shrug and think that's just the way it is.

This is absolutely fantastic. I'm active in my state's local politics and this year we've got quite a few young women running in various races at the state/local level - and a few in particular I will not be surprised to see throw their hats in the ring for federal positions in 2016. It's very exciting - there is…

Oh. This is a good analysis. Re: Your second paragraph - I think that's what makes Joan so interesting to me. She has these super old school ideas about femininity and womanhood and yet she so wants to be independent. Think about how much she loves work - how commanding she is around the secretaries. It's like her…

Oh man. I momentarily forgot that Pete is a rapist as well as a pimp now. How did I forget that?!?