Naaa, we're a religion. We're just not a deity-based one, which confuses people. Probably even moreso, since most of the "not familiar" religions end up being those from the East, and Islam has some things more in common there than Judaism and Christianity, even though they're all Abrahamic religions. I think a lot of…

Ah, yeah, stairs are probably the confounding factor, here. I don't use the Breeze pellets in my system, just the pads, along with regular Yesterday's News. (And I have wag.com deliver everything for me, so all I have to do is wrangle things upstairs.)

The suit is designed to constrict the chest, I think. Per the BBC article,

Well, he's technically correct, and the Irish did get a really bad rap at times, and were treated extremely poorly (in certain eras, worse than the African slaves). (That's a Library of Congress link, so relatively safe and not too biased.) Of course, the problem with technicalities and facts is that they move…

I have the Tidy Cat Breeze system and don't use liners. My litter boxes don't smell, but I do scoop and take the cat waste out daily. (I'm disabled and find it's easier to take a small bag out with me on my way to work every morning than create a large bag that's heavy to carry and risks hurting my already broken…

No worries! Siddharta Gautama was probably born outside of the Vedic caste system (in an independent republic in Nepal), and writings, etc, seem to indicate that he wasn't really familiar with religion at all until he began his quest. He swung from the luxury of his birth to extreme (Jain) asceticism before settling…

Yeah, this is the one gossip item I actually think is probably unfortunately true. :-(

I was raised Catholic, was a hardcore obnoxious teen atheist who softened to agnosticism, and still consider myself agnostic (as do most Buddhists I know - it's a common mistake, that people assume there's a worshipping of Buddha as a supernatural akin to God).

An insider reports that Kim "went crazy on Kanye a few days ago when he opened a package of cookies in front of her." I don't think this is true because Kanye is too good for packaged cookies.

I heard the Dalai Lama laugh, and was intrigued. So I put down what I was doing and listened to what he was saying (for a special on a BBC anniversary years ago), and just kept reading and researching from there.

Not really. I was in a pretty good place when I tripped and fell into Buddhism. (Was definitely useful to have around when things fell apart a few years later.)

Some things just click better. (I'd fallen into the sort of Obnoxious High School Atheism that Dawkins is the poster child of before softening to agnosticism, before winding up in Buddhism. ...of course, I'm still agnostic, too. I've found that a lot of the bafflement around converting from one religion - Catholicsm,…

I can understand the frustration of people who are feeling directly attacked by the #solidarityisforwhitewomen hashtag - and for better or worse, I have seen it used as a weapon. I'm not really sure what the answer is, other than "not that hashtag." (Alienation of allies is a real threat, and when I've seen other…

The biggest problem I have with these fat suits is that they generally swing all the way over to the experience of people who are morbidly or super obese, which is a much different ballgame than merely overweight or obese. Yes, the lived experience of someone who weighs nearly 600lbs is going to be much different than…

Congratulations!

Daddy Warbucks?

I'm wearing a light teal-y emerald (kind of a strange colour, but very pretty). White makes me look like I'm wearing a shroud. (Some would say that's appropriate for a wedding,...)

There's a piece sliced out of it in the picture!

Seeing that cake made me seriously reconsider my upcoming courthouse-ish wedding.... for about 30 seconds, then reality snapped back into place. But damn.

Swap that to "all but the once in a blue moon/stopped clock is right occasionally," and I'd agree with you. :D