My mother's and her sisters (there's three of them) all married Davids. Sometimes it did get confusing.

I don't think that we're going to come to agreement on this, but I think you put too much emphasis on the chip and not enough on the actual soul issue, which the show underlines as the most important.

Jane Espenson admitted the scene was written to manipulate the audience. It was Marti Noxon's idea and Ms. Espenson was against it for, well, because she's a person with sense. I recall her relaying an exchange where she basically tried talking Marti Noxon out of it. However Joss Whedon had largely handed the reigns…

Unlike Angelus, however, Spike had been domesticated. The chip in his brain which prevented him from harming humans forced him to consider how he interacted with people, and when the chip stopped working he realized making the conscious choice to not harm was more advantageous.

I think that's mostly correct, but Spike's an interesting case because he seems to be the only vampire who can retain the ability to love — The Judge even remarks on it in season 2, saying they (Dru & Spike) stink of humanity. He's also a bit of a romanticist and is capable of acts of great sacrifice (see his bargain…

Well, there's this:

No, Spike did not have his soul when he tried to rape Buffy. That was the whole point of him leaving and putting himself through the trials to get it back, because he could play at being a 'man' — and did it sometimes convincingly — but without his soul, he was still a monster. If you think that Angelus isn't the…

She was charged with assault for a different episode of hitting her and threatening her with knives. Anyone who 'slips up' enough to hit her kid when there's a camera rolling on her is probably capable of much worse when the cameras are off.

There's some later episodes of Teen Mom where the father's family — especially his sister, who is also a teen mother — tried to establish a relationship with Sophia.

I know that it's easy to hate on Farrah because she seems as dumb as a box of bricks, but anyone who saw her episode of 16 and Pregnant, in which her mother hits her on camera and then later flat out lies that she did so after literally being shown the footage in which she hits her daughter, knows that Farrah grew up…

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…