Great article, Madeleine. Touched on some of the same stuff discussed in this NPR story from yesterday that has been on my mind all day.

[The guests] were meant to feel special, but they were herded like sheep and treated like prisoners."

I know we're not doing cartoons, but Duck Tales and Chip 'n Dales Rescue Rangers are both top notch theme songs.

Were the hot dogs watery or was the gas watery? Need to know for self diagnosis.

Can we consider this compulsive behavior? On par with any hoarder or binge eater?

I'm gonna guess you would react differently if you found out a teenage boy had a collection pictures of you, say, in the shower and on the toilet. "Officer, I know what the kid did was wrong, but honestly, he's just horny. No harm no foul"

We shaved our heads, sold our possessions and we liked it, we loved it, we couldn't get enough of it.

Me. I am Shycity... the Surreptitious Diva.

There is no possible scenario in which the phrase "he's running out of organs" is a positive thing to hear.

The Taylor Swift on 4chan was kind of convincing, in a 4channy way

Takes from the Publix and gives to the public.

The thought process of the political right can be distilled to this "Everyone should be white, straight, rich, and Christian. Why aren't you white, straight, rich and Christian, already? Why would you choose to be anything else?"

Armpit rapists.

This girl has way bigger problems to address, but I really have a real bone to pick with this line:

The extra "this" in the NBC statement forced me to read it in a cartoonish Russian accent:

Yeah... Yeah. Yeeeeeeah, yeah... Yeah. Yeeeeeah, yeah.

The only dipping Dorito is the mythical powderless Dorito.

"Doritos dipped in salsa." Juan Pablo, you disgust me.

I'm willing to charge this guy with any crime and every crime, but I'm curious about the charge of "risk of injury to a minor." Are they talking psychological injury? He was definitely keeping his hands to himself.