Relapse rates for addicts are about the same as the rates for people with other chronic illnesses:

Congrats on the new job! As someone who’s been the new kid a whole bunch (I was a contractor/glorified temp for a long time), I find it helpful to remember that everyone I meet was new once, too. They needed to be shown where the coffee is, how to work the copier and what procedures there are for getting stuff done.…

I had a free round trip on Spirit before they started all the add-ons, and I still felt like I'd paid too much. Like, they should have paid me at least $100 to make up for that misery.

As others have said, asking if what you’re doing is OK is a good way to make sure that it is.

If you have fibroids, it’s still worth discussing Mirena with your doctor. My doctor suggested we try it as a way to control fibroid symptoms, with the caveat that there just might not be room. There was, and it helped more than anything else ever had. I got another one after my myomectomy, because it was that…

That’s how they measure at my go-to NRA store.

Big ol’ caveat for those who wear big ol’ bras: There aren’t any industry standards once you get up past a D cup. Different lines can have wildly different labels for one size. By way of example: In most brands and styles, I wear a 40DDD, but I have bras labeled 40DD, 40EE, 40F, 40G and probably some that use entirely…

He didn’t have health insurance, so no checkups. Plus he had that whole stereotypical-but-kinda-true guy thing where he never wanted to see a doctor no matter how crappy he felt. He probably hadn’t had a proper exam in 10 years.

Pudge! Ooh, and Nala’s going to be there, too! I used to work at this nonprofit where we had to deal with this awful database company, and so many people looked like Nala when they got off the phone that someone taped a picture of her to a wall.

The one weekend I’m out of town, of course! Which is something I emphasized when I pitched interviewing a cat to the management of entertainment site I’m working on. My suggestion that we ask to interview Lil Bub and her dude was solely based on the cat having over 3 million social media followers, and nothing to do…

A good friend of mine died suddenly at 38 of a massive heart attack. Undiagnosed heart condition, it turned out. He lived with a woman most of his friends hated, and they all blamed her for not calling an ambulance fast enough. Finally, his mother told them to cut that shit out. The guy dropped dead. There was no way…

Yep, that’s the ballpark estimate. Sometimes it takes longer. A relative of mine died suddenly last May and we didn’t get the final report until around Thanksgiving.

Fantastic post. I worked in the L.A. social justice nonprofit world for many years, and I can vouch for all of this.

In 2011, Prince did a long string of shows at the Forum in L.A. (well, Inglewood). Part of the deal was that ticket prices be kept to about $20. A friend and I went to a show about halfway through the run, and it is one of my top concert experiences ever.

As an illustration, take the election of 1992. Ross Perot - an independent who essentially acted as a third party candidate - won close to 19% of the popular vote, but zero electoral votes.

This.

A few years ago, a friend of mine had a fetus die in utero at seven months. By that point, the safest thing for her was to induce labor.

On a scale of Love Actually to Bridget Jones, I’d put Nothing Hill at Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Kendrick Lamar dropped by in January. Awesomeness ensued.

I used to go there with friends who lived nearby. Great coffee, comfy places to sit, and they didn’t care how long we stayed so long as we occasionally bought stuff.