Yeah, infrared sauna ruptured a breast implant on someone where I was working. Going back to the premise - what evidence is there that we need to be "detoxified" by any method other than the organs doing their intended thing.

This is mind-boggling. Roger Goodell is a moderately educated man who is in charge of a sports league. He is not Henry Kissinger. The table in his conference room is not the roundtable of Camelot. What planet are we on?

I needed to read that. Really.

The emetophobe's Monday morning nightmare? These words, right there on my landing page.

Love it. Single, 40+, homeowner here. I feel like I have worked out my life so that all of my emotional needs get met between my friends and my family. I don't need to be in a romantic relationship to be close to people. So take the "I need you to feel complete" out of the equation, and my relationships with romantic…

No kids by choice here - and I am glad you said this because I have always wondered as much. My mom divorced when I was pretty young, so I'm not a stranger to single-parent households. But I look at my friends with partners and kids and my friends who are single....and I see exactly what you've said here. The women…

Along these lines, my best upgrade was deciding to feed my kitteh at night. He self-feeds dry food, but if I do the feeding at night, he can't run out before morning. On the few occasions I forget, he zooms around the house around 3 am and makes it known that something is not right.

aaaaand, I just ordered some. Thanks again.

These are brilliant, never heard of them. Thanks.

I swear by lavender. I started buying a good quality oil from a local purveyor, and now I just put it on my wrists like perfume before I go to bed.

This is true for pretty much everyone I know. I am literally never "free" - the fun stuff, the recreation, even the relaxing - it all has to have a designated time or else it doesn't happen. To more laid back people, I know it can sound ridiculous, but it's the only way that anything (including chilling out) gets done…

As a pre-teen, I had long hair and used two towels. I also threw them in the laundry after every use. My stepmother only had to find two heavy wet towels had been sitting on top of the family laundry basket for a day or two before she got pissed. Can't say I blame her, considering that the wet towel in a pile thing…

Okay, now that is reasoning that I can get behind. I just choose not to worry about risks (death by amoeba!) that are statistically infinitesimal.

I'd call ~130 since 1962 pretty darned uncommon.

Note to self: don't bring neti to mom's house....well water.

I'm one of the weirdos who doesn't bother to use distilled water. The risk, as I understand it, is that there might be a brain-eating amoeba in the water supply. My take on this is that if this is the case, then my (major metropolitan area) city has much bigger problems and we're all pretty fucked. I guess it's like…

I lived in Virginia. Before I made the move across the river, actually. But "want representation, then don't live somewhere that doesn't have it" is a seriously disingenuous argument. Not to mention a red herring, when the point was that DC residents pay federal tax, yet have no authority about how even our own local…

Ha, yeah. Keep on spending my federal tax dollars (and I pay those mightily) - for which I have no representation at the federal level.

I lived in a pocket of tolerable in the middle of a sea of red voters. It was a constant source of sadness to see what happened on the state level. Know when people say that if you don't like the political climate, then move? That's what I did. I don't know if I could stomach living in Rick Perry's Texas...even if I…

I'm originally a New Englander - my problem with living in Louisiana was that the culture of the South was so completely alien to me. I felt like less of a foreigner as a student in London than I did during a relatively long stint down south. I tried to adapt - ended up running away so I could live somewhere I…

I lived in Louisiana for six years....there is no part of me that wants to go to OK or TX.