I think you’re right. And even the hypomanic episodes normally seen in bipolar II can cause massive problems - I know someone who spent her entire retirement fund, (temporarily) alienated her entire family, lost two homes and racked up a lifetime’s worth of debt (that she was then unable to repay) during a hypomanic…

Quick PSA:

Elizabeth Smart is a freakin’ rock star, in my opinion, and I hope every single conservative Christian church listens closely to what she has to say.

Mine is, “OK pumpkin,” said with a raised eyebrow, slight nod and a not-quite-eye-roll punctuated by a very quiet sigh. It’s condescending, dismissive and when done right, suggests that you’ve already half-forgotten what they did to annoy you before you even finished the sigh. Best saved for drunken mansplainers.

Men with cystic fibrosis are nearly always infertile - the disease affects the vas deferens.

Totally a tangent, but Sacajawea coins make awesome tooth fairy money. The kidlets get super excited when they get their first few because they’re “Gold!” and look different than normal coins, and thus don’t really notice that they are only getting a buck per tooth while the tooth fairy is dropping $5, $10 or $20…

Sexual harassment is SO fall 2016.

I’m in! I’ll bring the box o’wine, you bring the Nachos. :)

Any self-respecting parent of a preschooler knows that when you’re reciting e.e. cummings, you have to change the words just a teensy bit for maximum bonding power, i.e.:
i carry your fart

Thank you for this. Prison rape jokes aren’t any funnier than rape jokes made about non-prisoners.

My old lady wear IS Eileen Fisher (bought on clearance only, still crazy expensive but worth it) and it feels like I’m wearing pajamas every day. It’s the silver lining to being an old.

The kid and I built (eh, attempted is probably a better word) a version of Biltmore manor in Minecraft. I had to guess at some of the interior and the proportions are a bit off, but it was fun.

Good researchers with the money to buy access to public records databases can find out a LOT of stuff. Including the cell phone number of your childhood next door neighbor, or the name of your college advisor, or the police report from that time you got in a fender bender with old lady outside that grocery store. From…

I had shingles at 39 - from what my doc said, people are getting it younger these days. Theory is that since many kids are vaccinated against chicken pox now, those of us who had it as kids aren’t getting the re-exposure (thus boosting our immunity) to chicken pox that we otherwise would when treating our…

I haven’t seen the show yet and this is a tangent, but I vaguely remember reading about another gruesome murder where the killer removed the sexual reproductive parts of his victim. Gah. Wracking my brain now to try to remember details of that case. I wanna say it was somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, maybe? I…

Thanks - I wondered if it was a FODMAP thing but was too lazy to look up the list.

I feel your pain on the no-money-to-travel front. We’re actaully planning a Mexico-in-Hometown vacay. We can’t afford to go to Mexico, but we are going to pretend we have by drinking margaritas and eating nothing but Mexican food for a few days while lounging by various pools and getting sunburned. Still a pathetic…

I miss the days when pop stars ended their feuds reasonably: By kissing Madonna during an awards show during a slightly sad rendition of “Like a Virgin.” Katy, Tay, I bet Madge is in. You?

Frankly, it’s shocking Goop isn’t telling her readers about the real source of most of their illnesses - Aspirational Exhaustion. Western medicine doesn’t recognize it yet, but it’s a well-known disorder in the alternative health community. Sufferers of Aspirational Exhaustion are often tired, pale (they are…

God, I wish I could get cake by accident.