I read this entirely article with my brain unintentionally subbing in “MSG” for “MDMA”. Like, hm, sure, I guess that could be quite interesting! I don’t know that I’d have mixed it with brie, but....maybe the flavors mesh well! And I mean, I wouldn’t really consider MSG a drug, Hannah!

My husband’s birth certificate scales it down even further!

What a cutie! My black kitty was giving me a sphinx-y stare last night.

Indeed, there’s a reason it’s called powder! :D

My mindblowing moment was when Lara Croft, after swimming, wrings out her ponytail.

I always said I’d take the coward’s way out in an apocalypse, ahaha.

I’m not the OP you’re responding to, but it’s a difference between academic and colloquial uses of the term.

You’re certainly right (and I think it plays significantly into what Ta-Nehisi Coates says on the subject, that white people simply have an incredibly difficult time accepting that they can’t “have” or “do” something when culturally we’re taught that the world belongs to us), which I think also dovetails with…

Just a gentile here, but speaking of GI issues, my last Shabbat dinner with my friend (which is always AMAZING and consists of WAY TOO MUCH DELICIOUS FOOD) totally pushed me into a Crohn’s flareup from which I am still suffering.

I just don’t understand the mindset of WANTING to say a word that a significant portion of the population finds extremely damaging, rude, hurtful, whatever. (As least not once you’re out of the “rebellious teenager” stage, which is still not an excuse in the slightest, just that I remember wanting to make adults freak…

I will absolutely admit that is the immediate place my mind went. Not to mention....will these be living wages, enough to provide ARMED MILITARY PERSONNEL with enough food, shelter, comfort, entertainment, and so on in order to make sure that they’re able to fully dedicate themselves to this job and to maintain all…

Thank you. <3 It is something I want to talk with her about (it boggles me because just...she has kids! If they went to public school they would have gone to that school! That’s obviously not to say that we should only care about things that directly affect us, but DAMN, how do you not take that moment to reconsider…

Preaching to the choir. But that’s my exact thought, I just...the willful ignorance is astounding, and real, actual facts are so readily available. If we can talk on Skype, she can certain Google some actual statistics. It’s just mindboggling, and at the risk of surrounding myself with likeminded people, the vast…

A friend of mine lives right down the road; Jaelynn was her good friend’s daughter.

Entirely true.

D’oh, apology, for some reason my brain parsed that as a history of prostate and colon cancer! (Not that that inherently is gendered either, so again, sorry, ahaha!)

My story is very similar to yours, except that I am a woman, and I have Crohn’s disease, so mine was a regular diagnostic/preventative/etc one, and requested by my specialist! So never fear, they will rake you over the coals regardless of referral! The phrase “Has there ever been an elective colonoscopy?” was also…

If Breadwinner doesn’t win, I’ll riot.

I just wanted to say that I deeply appreciate the strange slice-of-life stories I get here and on the other blogs. Thank you for improving a stranger’s day with one of them!

Yup. I had to go to the ER last year because, post-colonscopy, I threw up blood. I felt fine, but you know, absolutely gotta take no chances on stuff like that!