Perhaps this will make them think twice.

I have been attacked by swans, Canada geese, other geese, chickens (who actually have sharp beaks), ducks, pigeons, and assorted other birds, including mean little parakeets who drew blood and fluffed themselves up with pride when they did. I've also been clawed and bitten by dogs and cats, and I don't hear people…

My best friend was savaged by a baby duck. For reals.

I'm with badmutha—congratulations on your sobriety. My husband has been sober for over 20 years, and it's still a fight for him, but he fights hard. Stay strong, and know you are the winner every day that you do stay strong.

You're right. To think it was created as a safer alternative to morphine. It's a plague.

This is breaking my heart. I love his work so much, and the news just hit like an arrow to my heart. I've never been so busted up over the loss of a celebrity, but he was something special.

Naw, let Texas or Florida have him. We've been selfish, keeping him to ourselves all this time. Let him go spread his special brand of Sean shit over *their* fields so they can see what he grows.

The things a person sees when she ain't got a gun.

Do I really want to watch this? The book left me with a creepy crawly really-need-to-shower-with-bleach feeling. It's a nasty, nasty tale that turns incest into erotica.

I was thinking of them, too.

Apparently the Missoula PD doesn't feel the same way, or they wouldn't have agreed to go along.

Tonya got me from the first time I saw her because she was out there with asthma, which takes an extra amount of fight, and because she was lower class. I was just learning to deal with asthma, and my heart twisted every time she hit her inhaler. Listening to the announcers sneer about her background and her lack of…

Nice classist analysis. And then there's the refined critical use of the b-word. It's a good thing Kristi can rise above this kind of "support."

I'm making a list of Rapepublicans whose opponents' campaigns I'm donating to.

So . . . did she actually *do* anything? Besides plot something? Because plotting doesn't earn you decades behind bars, does it?

I'd better go tell my husband of nearly 30 years that our marriage is dead. Shit, we're going to have to organize a funeral now.

I don't use Pinterest for cheese dip recipes. I don't use it at all for food, home decor, do-it-yourself beading projects, or bucket lists. I *do* use it for animal photos, historical research photographs and history bits I can search online later for more information, book sharing, photographs of places and people…

That's just plain bad writing. There's a lot of it—and bad editing.

I'm trying to remember the last time someone asked me how I wrote strong female characters. I mean, I'm not Gaiman, but I do pretty well. And I do adore Neil.

Nuts.