Renee Zellweger was in Austin for a few days and frequented the coffeeshop where I worked. She was extremely sweet. Everyone shut up!
That is all.

What a total asswipe. Did his wife ever find out?

Oh, goodness. We're a public library, but I feel you on the "plop the kids down in front of the computer" front. We have some filtered access computers that the kids can use, but we also have parents who make their kid sit with them while they use their open access one. What their neighbor's looking at is sometimes…

I understand why people would feel like they couldn't talk about this. If we're being honest about feelings here, I honestly felt no sympathy for the women above. To be honest, I saved all my sympathy for their children.

I do too. We have our monitors recessed into the tables with a plastic hood over them so you can't see what's going on. We have a bunch of signs touting "protecting your privacy!" but oftener than we'd like, it's protecting everyone else's eyes.

"men aren't taught that pillar of adulthood, disappointment management."

while i completely agree with your point, you can ask this question in the comment thread of the original story (helpfully linked in the post above). I think we should try to focus on the utter grace, dignity, and maturity of these kids. Let's face it, the more click-baity stories all over the internet have the…

Shared this with a friend from across the country who actually works at a comics shop and also happens to be black, and has many amusing stories about casual nerd racism. He had a pretty good comment I'm going to paraphrase here.

Him: "Okay, so if my shop had a room that everyone called 'dead nigger storage', think…

So basically we live in a world where the parents who put their proud ideologies before basic fucking sense and allow a 9-year-old girl to lethally handle an submachine gun will inevitably be showered with sympathetic support and theraputic assistance, while a mother who lets her children play in a park is arrested…

I want to know what the fuck has changed with gun owners/enthusiasts in the last decade or two that has made them completely insane. I don't get it. I come from poor farmer folk in West Virginia. My great grandparents, grandparents and aunts and uncles grew up loving guns. They were avid hunters (for food) and…

I have been poor (and a single mom) and I have had to go to food banks before. Most of them are pretty friendly to children. Often, it's a pleasant experience for the kids (much better than applying or getting re-certified for food stamps) . The people who work at food banks are usually nice, and will often give them…

Said it on Facebook this morning, saw it a lot in the Gawker comments - time to away with internet anonymity. No censorship, just post whatever you want to post with your first and last name next to it, linked to your Facebook account or email address. If you think it's okay to taunt a grieving 25-year-old with…

Awful, terrble news. He struggled with depression & addiction for years. More proof that mental illness does not discriminate. He had the world's adoration, a loving family & resources far beyond what the average person has and still lost the battle. I hope that someday we treat mental illness as the devastating thing…

No, he was being a spiteful prick to the child. The mom wasn't the one who wanted a pie. She was the one with the perspective to understand that an acting-up child is not a national crisis.

Dealing with the lack of empathy is the worst. Most of the narcissists I have known were also liars, to greater or lesser degrees. And they absolutely did not care that lying ruins relationships and hurts people. Being hurt by someone who really doesn't care, and cannot be forced to recognize that hurt, is…

I used to have this friend who turned out to be a really selfish, narcissistic asshole. Thing was, early on in our friendship we went out for drinks and she told me, "I can be really selfish and self-centered. I'm basically a narcissist." I interpreted this as a confession of sorts, and thought more highly of her for…

SCOTTISH SINGLE MUM HERE so listen up chick.

Please go to see an attorney (or legal aid clinic) to find out about your options regarding child support. It's for your son's benefit. I imagine that your son's father will pay the child support, rather than risk being exposed (and you don't need to be concerned about him and his wife — your concern is your own…

A little less Stockholm Syndrome and a little more scorched earth tactics would help put things back on track.

This piece just destroyed me. I am going to cry and keep crying for a very long time.