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I don't know that anyone responding to a comment left four years ago should be 'ha ha ha' wowing anyone.

http://powderroom.jezebel.com/rage-gifs-when…

that seems awfully hypocritical of you not to advocate this guys hiring. were you threatened by him, or do you just look down on people who can't keep a sexy secret?

(she was spending the night with one of their children)

Ah, I could have googled it. Of course the phrase has its own wiki page:

Does anyone have any idea where the fallacy about 'underwater basketweaving' comes from? It's this shorthand for 'ridiculous humanities major' that always seems to get referenced even though, as far as I know, there are no accredited universities in the US that offer this as a major. And I went to a hippy school,…

Don't forget, when the red jewel in your hand starts blinking, it's time to report to the center for your government issued frump wear.

I haven't been following this very closely, and I'm sure they have their justifications for it, but if the problem is that they wanted to include a female character but didn't want to do twice the work of converting their male lead into a female one, why didn't they just start with a female MC?

You can post in any GT thread and ask someone to share what you've written, or request posting rights in the once-a-month invite threads, fyi.

Yay, Jenna! I was literally just thinking about your great DIY posts the other day. What a nice surprise to see you back on Jez with one.

There is a link for emailing the comment mod on the about page.

No, the can not.

I disagree. Tara's mother is a manipulative shit, and she was just jerking Tara around so she could get some protection from her. No ulterior motive beyond 'what's good for me'.

Magic fairy vagina. Duh.

I would like to press my face against his face.

I literally just read that chapter yesterday — if you pick it up, it's chapter 'Crime', and there's a particularly devestating quote from Sure Klebold the chapter ends on. (They're not the only family in that chapter, but they are the most famous and I think the only parents of a murder that are profiled.)

In Far from the Tree, Solomon discusses the book by Dahlmer's father, and he also interviews the Klebolds. He describes the Klebold's as the family, of all the ones he interviewed, that he would most like to be adopted into because they were warm, loving, and kind, and yet their son still planned and executed the…