There is a strong tradition in American fiction of portraying New England as weird, forboading, and creepy, actually. Most of King's horror novels taken place there. Plus there's Lovecraft and everyone who follows in those two writers' vein.

You didn't. I just like to make sure people are aware that trollpatrol doesn't function any longer.

I'd say book deal versus blog post.

There are no mainpage mods anymore. We're not being lazy. We're just not used.

I thought that the big scandal about the house was that the network bought it for them.

For most insurance companies, it's actually a BMI of certain amount + 2 comorbities, or a BMI of (something higher than that). So that might be 100 pounds for someone, or less or more, depending.

You're welcome to email me at commenters@jezebel.com if you have questions. If its something you a seriously thinking about pursuing, the forums at ObesityHelp.org were invaluable to me when I started to consider the surgery.

I'm not going to encourage you to pursue it, since I think anything as dramatic as surgery is an incredibly personal decision, but as someone who just went through the whole WLS thing, most insurance companies don't require co-morbities. Their criteria is usually BMI of (X) + 2 comorbities or BMI of (XX).

I had the sleeve too. I don't know who those people are who think they're going to be 'Kate Moss skinny', but that certainly wasn't a promise in my program. My surgeons were very upfront about the risks, side effects, and potential complications, and the fact that I wouldn't necessarily become a 2% body fat waif. In…

I had no idea he had been on Gilmore Girls and that being the touchstone all these commenters knew him from made me feel like a decrepit old hag.

A couple of the zombies were the same, beyond the flapper lady. It looks like she has some sort of personal item of the zombies she raised, so it's likely she would keep reanimating the same ones until they were destroyed.

For those of us who were at the right age when Skid Row came out, the t-shirt incident was a huge deal. It severely dimmed his panty dropping appeal.

Or when NINJACATE's (now ZOMBIECATE) post on groupthink went viral (I'd say 1,575,007 hits would count as viral), it was completely ignored and pushed down on groupthink.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I thought this story was missing the fact that Biology Online was an affiliate site of SA, which adds another dimension to the 'why was this blog post pulled' tale.

I don't know what post about HS you're referring to. I wasn't defending Jezebel's record here. I explicitly said that. I was, however, pointing out that the OP was wrong is suggesting groupthink tried to bury NinjaCate's post about Miley Cyrus, which had nothing to do with Hugo.

No, I'm responding to your erroneous assertion that groupthink somehow hid NC's post. I'm the owner of GT and I would never tolerate a deliberate attempt to obscure one of the author's posts. There's plenty of examples of Jezebel's issues of covering WOC — this is a bad one to pull. (NC's post was linked on the…

Discrimination faced by women and POC in the field is absolutely relevant to discussion of science.

Yeah, I thought that little fact was an element missing from this story.