Absolutely correct. Friends are not responsible for fixing you, nor are they required to sit around and let you beat the shit out of them with a smile on their face.

Peter Lefcourt wrote a great novel called “The Dreyfus Affair” about a baseball player who falls in love with his second-baseman. In it is a therapist who makes a comment about how many problems in relationships are caused by “people putting penises in the wrong places”. Great line, its been in my head for 24 years.

She’s done some living, hasn’t she? I thought she was 5 years older than me, and I’m actually 5 years older than her.

Where did that 1 in 3 stat come from?

Is this Somerville, MA? If that’s the one, I’m pretty sure the main perpetrator was arrested.

This is a bummer. After eating the braised shortribs at his restaurant I scoured the internet til I found the recipe and they’re fucking amazing. Served with garlic soft polenta, holy jesus.

Perhaps you should give some latitude to the families of murder victims and let them work through their shit in a way that makes the most sense to them.

It was all worth it for the #BiologistSpaceFacts hashtag that it spawned.

Because we’re Puritans at heart.

I probably would still have laughed even if she’d died. I kind of giggled up my sleeve a little when that woman who stored her gun in a zipper pocket of her purse was killed by her two year old who was playing with it the the grocery cart while they were out shopping.

That sounds like a good gargle for a sore throat, but that’s about the extent of it (capsaicin is good for that sort of thing.)

Poor lady, what a rotten card to have been dealt, and her poor husband to lose her at such a young age. What a lovely thing for Dolly to do — she is truly one of the kindest and most generous-of-spirit walking on this earth.

With the last five minutes being her and Snoop making pot brownies together.

Especially when the deliberately stop taking their arthritis medication a few days prior, to guarantee that their joints will be swollen.

That’s almost what it seemed like to me. They thought he was giving them permission to laugh at the horror-show that was the reality of what was happening through the 60s — and it was broadcast for all the world to see. I want to believe it was a long and very subtle con.

Hooray, untreated mental illness paraded as sensationalist entertainment!

Fair enough. A credit card hold is almost always charged when renting a car or booking a hotel, so that is effectively a deposit in the way a hold on your money is with a debit card. The difference there is that I can still use my credit card, whereas if all my money is held by the car company or hotel, I’m…

You can’t use a debit card to buy things online, as far as I know, and you definitely can’t use them to do things like make hotel reservations, rental car deposits, etc.

How do black people dress as “white” characters? They don’t put on white-person makeup.

Its confirmation bias. If all you see is Cam behaving “badly” (and I don’t think being visibly upset during a press conference minutes after your dream crumbled under your feet is bad) then that’s what you’ll believe about him. Show the pictures of him smiling broadly at Manning (who himself stomped off the field…