We would sneak out during sleepovers and wander my (very safe) suburban neighborhood and go over to a 24 hr diner. I never understood how parents slept through half a dozen or more giggling 13-14 year old girls going out the back door. Only now do I realize, that adults are just really fucking tired most of the time.

That was my second thought after: Damn it! Weren’t those idiots listening to Michelle Obama?! When they go low, we go high?

It really boggles my mind how they keep saying this sort of bullshit and women keep defending it. Chris Rock had a bit a few years ago about how women dance to sexually explicit and often demeaning songs in club and justify it by saying “he’s not talking about me”. That is the only way to do so, right? If I’m not a…

Man, Coleman just played the best sexist, egotistical, lying hypocritical bigot there ever was on screen.

It makes me wonder if whomever leaked the tape to the post did so to fuck with Bush as much as Trump. If someone thought NBC might try to downplay it to protect him (or themselves, you have to wonder if there was constant creepiness by/towards guests), or was taking too long while they got their asses covered, that…

They are so awful. I’m in Houston in the central part (we actually do have walkable neighborhoods) and the fleas are atrocious. Between a heartbreakingly large population of street dogs and no winter, there is a constant flea population just looking for fresh dinner. My dog has gotten fleas twice while on flea…

That sounds bad and unhealthy for all inhabitants (also, they should fix their dogs). I do let my dog in the kitchen, though. She goes pretty much wherever she wants, and she is excellent at catching scraps I drop. Her favorites are sweet potatoes and broccoli. She gets a bath and brushed on an as needed basis, which…

I hate Trump as much as any of my fellow possessors of a pussy, but the primary voters cast millions of votes for him, the Republican Party delegates voted for him at their convention and he is the Republican presidential nominee. Removing him from consideration (and hopefully crushing, crushing defeat) on the belief…

I remember my parents hitting the point of locking me out of their room rather than in mine, but since I remembers it I mustn’t have been in the >5 age zone. I outdoor take my blanket and sleep outside their door. They probably started it because I got sneaky and would go in their room without waking them and curl up…

I’m glad he is recovering, that sounds like a terrible ordeal for you both.

The parent of someone I used to work with tried to be a breatharian. He reduced was he was eating and drinking down bit by bit. He died before he got down to nothing (of other causes, but I can’t imagine this helped). It is such a terrible thing to think of a loved one doing this to themselves of their kids.

I think it can be psychological in that the shame and guilt over not having the magical wondrous sex on your wedding night causes people to avoid getting the medical treatment they need.

Yeah, I wondered if that would be an effective strategy for reporters with Trump and his surrogates? Just a flat out, “that’s a lie” with no follow up or arguing about if it is a lie. Of course, Trump hasn’t spoken to reporters other than fox ones for quite some time, but Giuliani is out there every god damn day lying…

Criticizing experience has been totally effective in our public policy. I’m all for challenging authority, and we have made some pretty terrible moves listening to “experts” (Tuskegee experiments, Vietnam, etc.), but the world is fucking complicated. The standard for people working on technical policies seems to be…

one of my favorite moments with a libertarian was listening to one go on about the gold standard and about how the depression would have sorted itself out (and it really wasn’t that bad anyway) in front of a woman in her late eighties who remembered the depression. The elderly woman described her and her siblings…

Or she was negotiating to try to force them to drop the nda.

I was at a talk today where I was totally admiring the speaker, thought he was impressive and amazing to have gotten where he is at such a young age...and then he mentioned offhand that his grandpa is a world leader (not saying who because this was at my work). It made me immediately skeptical of him and shut me down…

Not that weird considering the Conde Nast story resulted in 5 people quitting. Seems like a good place to discuss privacy and media.

This is some victim blaming bullshit. At least give her a couple days to regroup before you start in on how she should know better than to presume she was safe in a hotel with security.

I agree, clinical trials are such a long road, I find these types of headlines in very early days of research kind of cruel. Sounds like a good idea, but there are so many good ideas that just plain do work out.