This works outside, but how do I get rid of the spidermites after I've brought my plumeria inside for the year? Right now I'm wiping the leaves clean with damp soapy paper towels every week or so, but I'm worried I'll stress the leaves too much.

Smartwool from Sierra Trading Post. Toasty warm and cheap.

I suppose I could start a conversation about linguistic quirks or pet peeves. I just worry she'll feel like I'm attacking her personally. But tiptoeing around it hasn't done any good so far, so I'll just have to do this and deal with it.

"...You didn't say Simon says!"

Fucitol: the Ho with four OH!s

No, no! Don't move there, her district might be dissolved and absorbed into others because everyone else moved away!

I like the interviewers' technique of never asking Yes/No questions. Rather than "Is everything ok?" you could say, "How are you today?" If you can convey sincere interest with tone, it might be the opener for someone with legitimate concerns to spill.

How can you tactfully ask an overly-sensitive-to-criticism friend to stop prefacing offensive statements with "No offense..."?

Meanwhile, no one at Catholic U will see the problem with having the dorms right across from each other. I mean, look at the size of those windows!

I mean, fer sure, support the polar bears. I support the polar bears! But would it have hurt to put a white polar bear on a red can? Isn't the point that the ice is disappearing? I would think that a lonely polar bear on a tiny scrap of ice would have been more graphically relevant.

It's a very able-ist position, especially if someone's vision is starting to fail. I mean, it took me quite a bit of looking to find the tiny "Classic" printed in a bottom corner, my grandpa sure wouldn't have been able to see it.

My grandpa and I stopped at a gas station during a road trip. Then I noticed he was pacing the coolers and starting to grumble in the way he's apt to do when confronted with something different. When I conveyed a questioning look, he half-shouted (he's a deaf old bohunk with a thick Slovenian/Iron Ranger accent)

Oh, damn! I already bought my nephews night vision goggles. I wonder if I can convince my other sister to get them a pair of these Nurf Blasters?

You can't get rid of it, but this country's paramilitarized police forces sure can. Bloomberg! This fetus is an OWS sympathizer! Get it out!

"I understand that that's your opinion, but I still don't see how that relates to me."

"Never is this relationship more strained than when I'm trying to go on a goddamn run without feeling like I'm being attacked by two sentient water balloons," drat it Morning Gloria, I should know better than to read your work at work!

Just...no.

But, how do we teach people the difference between fact and opinion?

Thank you for your sensitivity. I hate flashing the victim card, because that's not how I now see it. Rather, I equated my pro-gun beliefs with my pro-choice beliefs because in my mind, they are the same thing. Full dislcosure: I'm married and will be trying for kids in the imminent future; however, I have a blood…

Oh fer the love of all that's holy, I'm rather touched you're still here waging this fight. At least we've gotten our cardio for the day.