This sounds like an incredibly thoughtful and touching gift. If someone gave me a portrait of my feline demon, I'd absolutely love it. Plus, nobody says "your presence is gift enough" if they don't mean it. They'd just say "Oh, we're registered here."

And send it COD!

Wow, your friend sounds awesome! And super creative! Do you have a picture of this anywhere, or can you share more details? I may want to steal the idea.

"Accused?" Are we so afraid to label people as rapists that we won't do it even after they've been convicted?

Oooh! This: "If you're feeling hurt or defensive, ask yourself why?"

For anyone who's curious, this is a decent example of how to ask a question about Feminism 101 *without* being a derailing troll. See what SimuLord did?

This series of posts is beautiful.

I guess the up-side to hiring by election is that their potential future employer doesn't not hire them simply because of the lack of bathrooms.

Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting over!

Haha. It's for the best, because if you got arrested, you wouldn't get to see as many kittens.

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Can I take this puppy home with me?? It's so adorable I almost forgot how unfounded and off-the-wall Roseanne's comments were.

You may have already tried this, but anyway. Professional organizers are great! I hired one, and pretty much all she did was supervise/coach me through going through my shit and getting rid of stuff I didn't want/need. She wasn't pushy. But she kept me focused on the task at hand (figuring out whether this skirt…

Damn. I keep a mason jar of condoms on my nightstand.

And it's amazing how men who have only read that one book are just TERRIBLE in bed.

Well we all know what her first halloween costume is going to be!

Alas. That would have been too easy.

Okay, so if Myriad is so convinced that these genes are THEIRS!!!, can women who carry them sue them for damages caused by the genes?

What you're describing sounds closely related (but not identical) to professional organizing! Except your niche is more forward-focused/skill building, versus trying to fix a broken system.

Yep. This totally goes against my "fix it first" platform, but I'm okay with it. I don't know where the line is between an incident that calls for demolishing and building anew and one that just requires some paint and "move on", but the Sandy Hook shooting is way far along on the "rebuild" side of the spectrum.