Extradition is for when you commit a crime in country A and flee to Country B. Country A can petition to have you extradited. There is no Country B in this case, so there is no place to extradite them to.

I made a strawberry-balsamic-black pepper jam a few years ago, it was very good (not on like toast for breakfast, but more like on a baguette with some cheddar or goat cheese.)

Isn't England the home of "salad cream"?

Flexeril is the worst, I was prescribed it for back spasms and I took one pill then proceeded to have a hangover that lasted for 48 hours (during which I thought it would be a great idea to get into my car and drive 4 miles for Chipotle) and an incredible mood swing into rage that abated after about four hours. I…

PMS isn't an evolutionary disadvantage, so it wouldn't get "pruned" just because it serves no purpose. Our appendix is still there for example, and we stopped being quadruped herbivores quite some time ago.

Guh. I hate it. I get really *stupid* — like, I can't keep a thought in my head, I can't focus on anything, I can't follow a complex conversation. I don't get pissy with other people (although yesterday my boss' 9 year old was really getting on my last nerve) but I get really frustrated with myself for being…

Does it have vinyl, and stripes, and a cup built right in?

"He got a nice package, all right. Dayum!"

(avoiding confrontation is my specialty)

Not in appropriate if the parents give their consent, as the proxy for their daughter. They probably had to sign waivers before sending her to camp anyway.

Are camp counselors mandatory reporters? That kid is in desperate need of medical / behavioral health intervention

What is the "dome thing"? I've never been to Disney, if that explains why I don't know.

Because I can't not:

My climbing gym does a Halloween party every year and one year a climber dressed as Batgirl and it was the best climbing costume ever.

Those baby-Chewbacca howls, man! Grown-up bears have such a beautiful shine on their coats, they look so soft and I wish they were Narnian bears that I could hug and they wouldn't maul me to death.

I feel ya, Reese. Not only am I a white girl, I'm white girl raised in the country by Deadheads. I never had a chance.

Not a chance. She's the one that goes to the bakery in the next town where nobody will see her and buys cookies, then passes them off as her own.

Oops, I re-read my reading and its his *mother* who is the atheist, not him (although the above still stands, since presumably he loves his mother.)

I'm inclined to give her a little bit of latitude, but not a lot, because she was just in a car accident. People have all kinds of bizarre reactions when they're shocked (especially if she has whiplash or any kind of injury to the tissue around her spine) including really irrational emotional outbursts.

I read it that way too, but then I re-read it and she calls him an atheist *lover*, as in he loves us atheists (and really, who wouldn't? We're so the perfect combination of salty and sweet, like those treat bins you get at Christmas with the salted almonds and chocolate bark. Mmm!)