I should read it - my grandmother is dying. My brother and I are trying to support our mother and each other but we have also gotten mad at how little help there is when someone is dying.

I agree. My coworker's daughter found out she was pregnant at 20 weeks (after she had split with the father), but she certainly knew how it had happened.

First thing that popped into my head when I started reading this was, verbatim, "And water is wet."

... Yes? I mean, it's been said, but if you have tickets to the opera or a baseball game or a play and something prevents you from going, you either put the tickets on StubHub to try to recoup the cost or you call it a wash. Alinea wouldn't refund their money, nor should it, because the personal lives of their patrons…

I think there is a limit to how many foster kids you can have at a time, plus your own kids. I want to say no more than six kids total, so if a family has two bio kids they can only take in four more. The number drops when you're dealing with therapeutic foster care and I believe most (all?) of her kids have special…

I went to Columbia. No one thinks Tom's is any good - it is indeed one of the worst diners in the city. People would visit and be like "Ooh, the Seinfeld restaurant!" and my friends and I would be like, dude, that place sucks. I was never/am not a Seinfeld fan so for me, the place was just a shitty diner.

I was thinking that too - I think this is one of the least-flattering photos of Jessica Alba I've ever seen. She looks lovely in the plum dress but this other look is awful.

My friend teaches middle school and she says the only thing worse than 13-year-old boy BO is 13-year-old boy BO with a hefty dose of fragrance.

This and #solidarityisforwhitewomen pretty much sum up my issues with Jezebel.

He has full custody of his two other sons, who are elementary-school-aged; I think their mother is psychologically unwell. She's been with him on and off for years. She knows she's signing up to be a stepmother.

My old roommate worked on her L'Oreal fragrance and she said something similar. She said Britney had a team of handlers around her constantly and she never spoke for herself. She looked to her people before she spoke, always, and her eyes were kind of glassy. Britney was pregnant at the time (can't remember if it was…

She is completely beige and boring, and an average actress at best. I was surprised they got married because he really doesn't seem like the marrying kind to me. I can see her wanting to lock it down because she doesn't really have much else going on, from what I can tell (what was the last movie she was in?) but he…

Indeed. I am black and was shopping with one of my best friends and her sister, who are Iranian immigrants and very ethnic-looking (and attractive). They often speak Farsi to each other and others in their immediate family and they got to the store before I did, so they were chatting in Farsi when I showed up. Between…

I have a GP that I'm going to stop seeing because she basically pats me on the head and sends me on my way. I like the practice so am going to switch to another doctor there and see how that goes, but Dr. S. is really dismissive and she has a really flat affect. Not sure if it's racially motivated (I'm black, she's…

Ooh, it does? I'm 33 too and am going to get it (and pay out of pocket); I had no idea it was painful.

I met a married man on fucking Match.com. His profile said he had never been married and had no children, and, hello, it was MATCH, a site for single people looking for relationships. Thankfully I ended it before it got too far; we didn't have sex. I suspected he was married after he did something shady, asked him…

You can get it, it's just that insurance won't cover it. My doctor suggested I get it (I'm 33 and single, not gettin' any at the moment). It would run me about $600 - three shots over a six-month period.

There was an (amazing) episode of Friday Night Lights where Matt's father has died and he and Tami Taylor go to the funeral home to get everything planned. Matt is numb so he's saying yes to everything, and Tami sends him out of the room, looks the funeral director dead in the eye, and says "Does it look like that boy…