I hate when I get here before the other commenters...

“Kurt Russell” was the name of Disney’s beloved boyhood sled.

Here is a picture of my very disapproving turtle because your comment made me sad

Just about 5 years ago my now-husband and I were in the middle of losing two of the most important people in our lives at about the same time. My Nona, who was sweet and artistic and spiritual and liberal as all get-out. And his Grampa, who was a Marine in WWII in the South Pacific, and a staunch Catholic, but a total…

Hai! We got Uber kitties to our office last year, and I had a lot of the same questions. They have several different groups of kittens that travel on several routes, giving them plenty of time to rest and relax in between visits. Additionally, their shelter handlers are with them the whole time, and bring familiar…

Do you ever think the mothers of people who wear pro life cowboy hats wish they would have gotten an abortion

I have two cats, and am broke. We got them before everything went bad. Do you seriously expect people to abandon their pets at every downturn? Also, they are great for your mental health. I am not working, can’t go out, and can’t see friends and colleagues, but having them around gives me a routine, something to talk…

LOL, and if your car is already full of other things you need to store because you can’t afford a place big or safe enough to store your belongings? And you know enough about cars to identify what’s wrong with yours in the first place? And poor people, especially single parents, have tons of free time to spend on a…

Mmmm... tbh I’m all about the arms in that picture.

The head game is strong here:

That was damn rude. VonQueso is a thoughtful commenter who has been here for a long time. She asked an honest question in order to educate herself, and you replied with both, ‘Don’t be simple’, and then further insulted her with a reproduction of a dictionary entry. The question wasn’t even directed at a column YOU…

These fuckers.

Also for aging pets. Says the woman who just put a step stool next to her bed for her 14-year-old tubby tabby.

They never took a doggie bag home and they never touched Golem Jesus’s meal.

Agreed. I left a lunch table the other day because of this. But before I did, I reminded them that there was a room full of men who work with us having lunch at the restaurant down the street talking about us, and we didn’t need to do that to each other. #huff

And guess what, so is my part of Europe’s kind of catholicism. I feel very, very much at home with this Pope. Whenever I hear something of him, I nod and think Finally someone who represents me and my kind of being Catholic.

National Geographic had a really interesting article on him last month. It seems like he is genuinely very liberal, and also a very smart strategic thinker. He knows there are a lot of old guard, conservative political forces at play, and it seems that if he wants to make real change he has to placate them in some…

My grandmother recently sold the home where she and my grandfather lived for nearly fifty years. Ours is the only family the house has ever belonged to; my grandfather built the house. It’s the consummate middle American conservative house. So imagine my delight when my grandmother sells the house to a middle-aged…

Is it really hypocritical for someone to be okay with the cost/benefit analysis re: animal testing for medicine, but not for cosmetics? It doesn’t seem like an arbitrary line to draw, just a different one, like the difference between people who decide to be vegetarian for ethical reasons and those who choose to be…

this was me the first time I went to a supermarket in America.