Ding Ding Ding, back in the day women had no options but to marry. So every loser had a wife but now women have options and those losers don't have the great life that was "promised" to them by desperation.

I think you might be confusing two different things.

I hate to be that person, but "breast cancer test" is a terrible way to describe BRCA1/BRCA2 genetic testing. a) It is testing for a mutation that increases risk of disease, not disease itself; and b) BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations are also associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer, which is arguably a bigger deal…

Another factor that may have contributed to awareness was the US Supreme Court's decision on Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, which advocated that a corporation could not hold the patent to BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genes (in the US at least), thereby holding a monopoly on detection methods. This…

Jian Ghomeshi is a first rate interviewer. I think his program is broadcast on some stations in the US now. Find it if you can. You won't be sorry. His interview with Billy Bob Thornton was epic, for all the wrong reasons. It's on Youtube.

This has always bothered me so much because her hair is blowing in the wrong direction.

OMG you found ONE!!!! WOW! Are you pleased with yourself?

I did it!!!!

SCIENCE! That's seriously the best thing I heard all day.

Chickpea flour is common in Indian cuisine and is used in Italy to make a crepe-type bread. In the context of gluten-free, where many alternative flours are used, it makes sense. What confuses me is the casein-free, which is basically covered by the following dairy-free...

Bunny lovers unite! I have 2 and they are fantastic, adorable creatures. Also no more comments from my phone. Clearly Kinja hates it.

I have a pretty bunny and I love her.

It's like having the ultimate Mean Girl whispering in your ear all the time telling you you're worthless, that the world would be better off without you. But it lies. It lies more than any politician ever could. Depression is a fucking asshole.

"Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - -…

It always feel like such a punch to the gut when mental illness takes another life.

Oh, please. I put a sewing machine needle through my finger and my ability to point out this woman's clear bullshit was not harmed in the slightest.

Apparently a year or two ago the Canadian government decided to crack down on the epidemic of people smiling in passport photos by being ridiculously picky about accepting them. I repeatedly had my photos rejected even though I wasn't smiling because, to quote the passport office woman: "your face is just naturally…

Repressive fundamentalism in any religion is so awful.

Damn you, Michael Bay! Look what you made me do!!