"Well, hello there." If motivated, wiggle a finger at it. And then turn to mom and said, "so how are you feeling?" if you need a transition to the important topic, i.e. "so about your life insurance..." If there was no important topic, keep it focused on her to give her the chance to talk about she is feeling.

"It's…

I 100% think this would be less controversial if the pics were in color. We code black and white in our heads as meaningful and color as moe candid or random.

I find it inappropriate. She's a kid, he's a grown man, he's shirtless, they are in a bed together.

It's usually through my nose. I often hope a booger will just fly out one day and hit the person speaking. No better signal for "you're not funny, stop" than a booger to the face.

"Mitters"? What, was the word "brobysitter" too off-putting?

Amen to that, I'm 33 yrs old and I'm still not on the baby train. I was forced to babysit my niece and nephew when I was in my teens. Not into it, at all.

I generally did not enjoy being a baby-sitter growing up, so if males are get their day in the sun as baby-sitters, I am all for it!

Oh okay, I wasn't aware.

On the Today Show interview, she said she wanted to be referred to as Michelle for the interview even though she changed her name. So I think it would be appropriate to not change it here either to respect her wishes.

If you don't mind, could the title of the piece be changed to reflect her new name?

Didn't she change her name?

It's absolutely disgusting that a large part of the re-spread of polio is due to fundamentalists killing people trying to vaccinate children. If we can't stop violence against those trying to do good, how can we hope to stop this terrible disease? I think a good case study to look at is India vs. Pakistan. Just five…

Any discussion of a global resurgence of polio MUST include the fact that US intelligence officials posed as public health officials in Pakistan as part of their reconnaissance to secure Osama Bin Laden, going so far as to secure DNA samples from children in the compound under this ruse.

I went out to diner with a girlfriend to a Chinese restaurant one nigh and was sat next to a couple, and when I say sat I mean we are literally on top of each other. Any hoo right as the food was placed in front of them bang he tells her its over that he just wants to be friends. Her face crumpled, her eyes welled…

One thing I've noticed is that when someone does this, the reaction is usually "well, why did they breakup in public? A public place is safe in case one side takes it badly.

So now not only are we taking pictures of people in public—and later posting them online for everyone to laugh at—if they are doing anything out of the ordinary, but we've also added listening to their conversations and Tweeting about it to our list of Things That Are Acceptable. Remind me not to do anything in…

he has sad pants

It isn't the most compassionate trend, but it's incredibly awkward being the unrelated party stuck next to the couple breaking up. My first year of college I lived in a dorm that was right next to a parking garage and people would always go to the top of the parking garage for difficult conversations. It was about 4…

Ugh, I hate this trend. Breakups are the worst and sometimes they happen in public with no warning. My divorce was actually was started via a horrible, out of the blue conversation in Target that left both me and my ex husband in tears. Thank god it preceded this trend or it would have been tweeted by some asshole.…