So the problem with this Miracle Anti-Poo Juice is that it's either a courtesy flush, or use the spray, but not both. The spray works by using it *before* you go, and it has to stay in the bowl. It kind of coats the surface of the water and seals it so the smells stay beneath the surface, if that makes sense. If you…

LOL the dude who's fostering them is right in middle of a very entertaining thread about it on reddit/aww. Lots of pics behind-the-scenes to the Colbert show; everybody apparently got to cuddle a kitty.

I think about that too, to the extent I think about Kanye. His mother put a lot in him, and she was a person with a strong character and plenty of gravitas herself. Sometimes you can see glimpses of it when he's not wound like a cuckoo clock. You put it well, he was not "raised by wolves" and I think he'd be much more…

Oh, I am *so* very much on your team with this. I started thinking it even before I turned the page to read the article. Why oh why can't his carers be humane enough to gently let him stop suffering? Putting him through all this just means more pain that he can't understand for a future he can't conceive. The greatest…

You didn't "save" $11,450. You lucked out by being able to capitalize on an error on the part of your venue coordinator. You weren't planning on booking the more expensive day; it just fell into your lap because the coordinator made a mistake. Notwithstanding, however much you may wish to congratulate yourself on this…

That is not about Israelis of Ethiopian origin. That's about Africans from various countries in Africa who enter Israel to work. The protest is shameful, disgusting, hateful and racist, but it's not against Ethiopian Jews (who are, in short, simply Israelis). Their hateful tirade is against Africans. Still hateful but…

That is absolutely not true. I'm not even going to refute the allegations individually, since they are simply made up of whole cloth.

And now I'm hungry. I wouldn't turn down a schtickel gefilte fish, is what I'm saying.

Not really, because one of the points being stressed in this story is that this particular ride underwent a multi-million dollar overhaul just two years ago to modernize it. You visited a park that seems to have been in an awful state of disrepair and decrepitude overall, but it doesn't sound like this park, and this…

I've wandered aimlessly through enough parking lots to make this a personally painful subject, but my lower-tech solution works just fine: I use my phone to snap a pic of the level/aisle/row number where I'm parked, and when I go into the mall, I try to remember the name of the store (or snap a pic) adjacent to the…

Tip for using a hand mixer and any other kitchen task that might end up making a mess of adjacent surfaces: Do it in the sink.

Fact. Also fact: That's the same reason that Karl Lagerfeld is never seen without gloves.

And once again the Gawker empire sends me on a trip down memory lane, back to the early days when Consumerist (it was once part of the Gawker Empire) ran a piece on how to forge US State Department letterhead and write a letter to your cellphone provider to advise that you were just appointed ambassador to Fredonia.…

"Heifer" is such a beautiful way to describe an overweight person. Elegant and evocative.

I'm dying to do this with some of our cat toys, so they can run on A/C power and also be controlled by a timer. It would save money and also entertain the cats when I'm not home. But yeah, I doubt that I'd ever have the nerve to put a real live baby into a swing I jury-rigged.

Just paint a little stripe of nail polish at a point you'll remember, like, say, at 350 degrees, and improvise from there. Nowadays you can easily find nail polish in any industrial color - gray, black, silver, whatever you want. Or you can paint a few strips at all the temperature points you use regularly.

Fortunately, I think all the owners of the contestants feel like you do, and actually adore and dote on their supposedly-ugly canine furbabies.

Wow. 89 years old. That's harsh. Apparently it's fair and appropriate, as I'm sure this man had the best counsel that millions and millions of dollars can buy. If they couldn't overturn the sentence, I guess he really had it coming. But still, sending an 89-year old to prison, wow.

That is an insanely adorable cat. A veritable kornucopia of kute, and a heck of a fundraiser for kritter kauses, too.

Is that the same Orlan who had a bunch of increasingly bizarre plastic surgeries like adding facial bone bumps where there aren't any and a horn in her forehead? Seriously. Gave me nightmares when I first read about her.