“Sucks that your 11-year-old got killed in a biking accident, but he knew he needed to wear a helmet, so he caused his own demise.”

“Sucks that your six-year-old drank the antifreeze, but the bottle quite clearly says that it’s poisonous and the child could read, so he caused his own demise.”

Sorry, but with all do respect you are just doing what you accuse. It is sad that three young people died but this is not a case of the cops shooting someone unarmed etc. and this is not some nice lake out there where you go swim. This is a proper FL swamp, gators, snakes, mudd that sucks you in like a glue trap plus…

I think there needs to be a world kebab-off: the very best Turkish, Lebanese, Georgian, Armenian, Persian, Afghan, and Pakistani kebab chefs, all throwing it down on the grill in their national styles. If we can keep the Armenians and Turks from killing each other it’ll be the greatest thing in human history.

I love NDT, but I also believe that being friends with him would be super annoying. “Ugh, there’s no parking!” “Well, actually all the atoms that make up stuff is composed of empty space. If we could re-arrange matter there would be more then enough space to park.” “I hate you."

Can you imagine watching a movie with Neil Degrasse Tyson??

“HA! Want to know why that can’t happen in real life?”
“I don’t care, Neil! Just let me watch Tangled in peace!!”

#9 - there’s a thing with some fundamentalist christians where they appropriate Passover in an attempt to be closer to Jesus and strip Easter of its pagan origins. Lots of them don’t drink so they serve Welch’s grape juice instead of wine. During my childhood the idea was spread through newsletters, now I’m sure…

And they left a computer on so that Elijah could Skype in.

I saw him about twenty years ago and everybody was basically a normal human up until the second he stepped onstage, at which point every woman around me started shrieking and rending garments left and right—I swear it was grandmothers, rednecks, your cousin Cheryl with the limp, and me—total hysteria. And it didn’t…

Right. The initial reports suggested she was a ticking time bomb. Instead, she’s just quietly going on vacation with her husband and holding a suggestively titled book.

Acting out? How? By carrying a book while grabbing dinner with her husband? I wish all people “acted out” like this—-would lead to a lot more peace and tranquility in the world.

Yeah, I think in America, people tend to think of “racial issues” as concerning white people’s racism against black people. And because that’s the kind of racism that tends to get thought about and talked about most (even though it’s still not talked about nearly enough), I think that probably causes some misplaced…

Yes—this. Mostly/sort of related, I went to a charity event (sort of—I paid $10 cover for a bar and the money went to a pit bull charity) and my boyfriend bought me a t-shirt that has the charity name on it. Someone actually got mad at me that I would buy a t-shirt from this charity that doesn’t help ALL dogs. Like,…

City living with a family of 5, the way they do it, will go through that like a hot knife through imported french sel de mar artisan butter.

He’s always been very into the environment and plants. I remember when I was a kid in the late 70s he used to get made fun of because he admitted he talked to his plants and thought that made them grow better. He was kind of the Prince MoonBeam that matched Governor MoonBeam (Jerry Brown) at the time.

LiLo is engaged to Egor. Officially. OK, probably. [Us Weekly]

ngl, I see “hordes” used when “hoards” should be so often that seeing “hoards” used properly looks weird now. It’s like when I see people say “rein in” instead of “reign in” - it’s right, but it’s almost never done correctly, so it looks odd now.

There are a couple hundred Malayan tigers left; just leaving them all where they live is maybe not the best way to still have Malayan tigers in ten years.

Wow. Good to know you’re around to judge us. Yuck.

Yeah. I guess I’m feeling very cynical these days about some types of protesting. This could be because I am getting old? Jaded? Those eight years of Bush really sucked.

I protested like this a long time ago and I think I've become cynical since then. Nothing really changed. I voted for Ralph Nader which felt so rebellious. But then Gore lost and we had 8 years of Bush. 8 years. That's enough to whip any young over zealous hippie back into line.