Oh lord. My parents thought that all war movies (as long as they were about real conflicts) were appropriate because they were “history.” That was a flawed assumption. They rented Casualties of War when I was about 10. Yikes, that was a VERY uncomfortable family movie night. I also saw Apocalypse Now and Full Metal…

My Dad tried to rent that SO MANY times for family movie night, but by then I was chaperoning his choices, so I vetoed it every time.

My friends adopted a cat that had been abandoned when her (bad) people moved away. She was skinny as a rail and pretty sickly when they got her. They didn’t think she’d live a real long life. She was also a runt and never got bigger than about 6lbs. Fast forward 15 years and Chloe is 17 and still alive and kicking and…

I got mine on Wednesday after two workers were taken down by the flu (one has a baby with the flu and as I’ve heard from her family, it has not been good). I’m just keeping my fingers crossed (on my very well-washed hands) that I don’t get it.

Talking seriously about marriage, fine. But with a stranger and in terms like, “OMG if I’m not married soon I’m going to DIEEEEEEEE.” It’s ridiculous.

Yeah...I know that happens. My friend’s Dad MARRIED his Mom after knowing each other 3 weeks and they were married for 20+ years (until his Mom passed). I still do believe that if you know, you know but unless neither I nor any of my friends thought there were any red flags after intense time spent together with my…

They are missing a HUGE opportunity (IMHO) by not doing a more mature season and casting both an older bachelor and older women. I can understand the crazy level of women in their mid-20s who sign up to be on this shit show (for the Instagram fame and sponcon dollar$$$$ alone) but someone 40 who signs up for this?…

My parents got married 9 months after meeting. They were happily married until my Dad passed away but on their honeymoon they got lost and my Mom took out a map to try to figure out where they were going. At some point, my Dad calmly took the map, crumpled it into a ball, rolled the window down and threw it out…

For real. A) That truly is timeless, incredible taste and B) it’s obviously been impeccably taken care of.

I think it will be Louis CK, but it won’t be for another couple years. He can lay low producing in the meantime, but since his comedy was always self-deprecating, I think he has at least a glimmer of a chance at a redemption tour.

Those are GREAT ideas!

I’m really feeling this piece. I’m 40 and an only child with no first cousins, no aunts and uncles and no surviving Grandparents. Not married, no kids. The cousins I do have are older with teen kids and we’re not really close (so we don’t do much more than a quick dinner or lunch around the holidays or when I’m in…

BINGO. We need money out of politics or nothing will ever change.

Yeah, I’ve long since fallen out of Catholicism, but judging by all the high school friends I keep in touch with on social media, the vast majority hold liberal views similar to what you’re talking about. Hell, my Mom (who considers herself a “good Catholic”) is in favor of nearly everything you’re advocating and…

I grew up Catholic. The youth group had a Halloween party at which a couple of my male friends showed up in drag and jokingly “propositioned” my Dad when he came to pick me up. No one cared.

What’s the dumbest thing anyone’s asked for and similarly, what’s the dumbest thing anyone’s asked for that you’ve actually had?

You need the type of shower that shoots water from every angle at you to make it even reasonably feasible. Otherwise, yes...someone is always freezing.

I am from Western NY as well. They are “red” in how they vote (particularly fiscally), but hoo boy they’d be PISSED to be lumped in with the Alabamas of this world. It would be awesome to see. They’re still CONVINCED (including relatives of mine who are otherwise smarter than this) that they’d be better off if they…

I was working on a project with a “flower essences” outfit at the time my Dad died of cancer. They were 100% telling people that just maybe they could skip treatment for cancer if they really went for it with flower essences. 100% bullshit. It was enraging.

Nothing would be sweeter than seeing the dotard hoisted with his own petard (of Tweets).