i'm so mad at myself that that never occurred to me. hat tip to you, friend.

yowza, really? so wait, are you talking about holistic, dietary preventative use (like a teaspoon of honey a day keeps the drug resistant nightmare bug away kind of a thing), or as a topical application to something that's already infected? or a topical application to any open wound to stave off infection? and what…

"Despite writing about this for years, I still haven't figured out whether people think it will never happen to them, or whether they assume there will always be another drug to save them..."

HOLY SHIT, REALLY? damn. go ahead.

iknowright? i'm 33 now, and i'm STILL an insufferable jagoff sometimes (probably more often than i realize). i'm just super stoked to not be famous, or to have a record of my foolery.

ohmygodisweatgarfunkleandoatessobad!

Yeah, I'm 9 months pregnant and I take the underground everyday in San Francisco, and I have had someone offer me their seat in that special handicapped/elderly/pregnant lady reserved area exactly once my whole pregnancy. Which is fine, because I've been feeling good for the most part and don't actually need a seat. …

You sound like a real treat to be around.

at first, the prospect of 31 being "old" made me really bristle. but i really do think there's a transition point for all of us, and it comes at different times, where on one side you thought of yourself as one of the young people, and on the other side you know that you're just not anymore. i'm not sure what age…

seriously, though, WHAT is up with the magic extra-long hair growth? i have the exact same experience with a couple of hairs, where i swear to god they don't exist until the moment they are so long as to waft gayly in the breeze. it is a legitimate mystery.

you know, this is a rare instance of getting the negative smacked out of me by internet commenters. i'm grouchy and a thousand months pregnant and not feeling charitable and my foot hurts, and i read this and was like "oh - THAT fucking guy. what a famewhorey pain in the ass. [some vague negative thought about him…

actual question about california law (and yeah, i'm embarrassingly ignorant about california criminal law):

Because people are kind of the worst. I'm 8 and a half months pregnant, and some lady on the bus this morning saw me holding a to-go cup and said, "you should really try to stay away from caffeine." bear in mind that the bus was packed, i was standing, she was sitting, and she chose to publicly chastise me for the…

i'm really of two minds about this. on the one hand, ladies, do whatever you want with that body. that body is yours and yours alone, and can't nobody tell you what's right or wrong to do with it.

Now I'm gonna have the lyric "closer than my peeps you are to me" in my head all afternoon.

look, a little botulism never hurt anybo-

maybe a lot of people know about this, but you just BLEW MY MIND.

That is a thousand percent what happens in Western Addition. Great call.

Totally. I think we have a hard time as a society being able to hold space for seemingly conflicting, but simultaneously true, narratives. It's hard to acknowledge that a lot of abuse comes from people who are deserving of love and compassion, and then also to say that just because you love or have compassion for…

This is a really fair question. Chris Brown and his aggressively unrepentant attitude and continually abusive behavior aside, intimate partner violence is super complicated and certainly not one-size-fits-all. I'm sure there have been plenty of scenarios in which someone who is abused stays with their abuser and the…