My grandparents live in New Jersey (ooooh, sppppoooky). When I was a kid, we used to visit them and drive back late at night when it was so dark you couldn't see anything outside of the headlights. I used to sleep in the backseat, or try to.

AARRGGHH I LOVE THE JEZ SPOOKY STORIES CONTEST!!

I found out last night on WWHL that Monica and Alan Cummings are besties.

People... what a bunch of bastards.

How could they possibly be surprised that someone who scored a White House internship was intelligent? Aren't those pretty freakin hard to get? (Unless you're *uber* connected I guess). But no, she did sex things, so obviously, she's dumb.

One thing that struck me from reading Sidney Blumenthal's book, The Clinton Wars, was that Monica Lewinsky was a lot smarter than the prosecutors had expected. They thought it would be easy to trap her into incriminating Clinton, but she turned out to be very focused and certain in her testimony. She made the lawyers…

This is where we must remember that they are just people as well. They may be a doctor or a nurse, but that just means they went to a medical school. It in no way makes them a good person. Depressing.

I feel a great disturbance in the Tort, as though millions of HIPAA compliance officers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

I have to keep reminding myself that many, many people are not as terrible as the people on the internet. Many people are okay. The internet just amplifies the creepy, shittiness of those people out there who are, well, creepy shits.

It may not have "caused" her depression, but there's no doubt that it likely exacerbated it. Either way, her rights were clearly violated.

That's stupid. She's already depressed, so hey, what's a little more?

You're "basing" your assumption that I "let" my toddler "wander" into traffic based on the fact that I wrote that my toddler once ran into traffic. Because you're an asshole who doesn't understand that even when parents do their best, they can't guarantee that a toddler won't suddenly break loose that one time.

No, I didn't "let" my toddler "wander" into traffic. Do you feel delusional pretending you know everything? Like you seriously think that (if you became a parent) your child would NEVER do something dangerous on the spur of the moment? Seriously, get over yourself. You're delusional and self-righteous.

I think "near-death" incidents can warrant a spanking, if the activity was very dangerous and the child is, say, younger than 4 or 5. I got spanked once for lighting a barbie on fire when I was 3 years old, and I think that spanking was pretty justified.

It shows that you don't have children and have no experience with childcare.

I think they handled some of the lingering aspects of it pretty well. Notice the part where Pops brings out the hot wheel track and cracks it over his hand. Dre for a second absolutely loses it. I absolutely know that feeling because like in this episode, I grew up learning that you're never quite too old for a…

Your last para is particularly good.

So we just end up not talking about determining that point on the line, which is where I believe the real meat of the debate is, because some people don't want to admit spanking could ever be abuse, and others don't want to entertain the idea that spanking could ever not be abuse.