Even though I’m not Catholic, I attended a Catholic college. One of my professors was a nun, and we were pretty sure she only joined because living in post-war Japan was literally worse than being a nun (also she got to come to the US for free). Sr. M frequently told us she wasn’t sure she believed in God, and…

Heck yes. People ask what the point of Gawker is, when they always post news two hours later than everyone else. If I wanted news, I’d go to the BBC. I come here for the comments.

When I was in 4th grade, we got movie Fridays if the class had been exceptionally good. So one Friday, we were watching E.T., and the end of the movie, when ET gets to go home, made me so sad. I swear to god I was the only kid crying, and of course everyone had to ask what was wrong, why was I crying, and all those…

I remember buying that when I was 15, and my mom thought I was getting a book about how to actually hitchhike.

I live half way between Cleveland and Akron and you’re right: we really don’t handle news well...especially bad news.

Finding out your friend (or relative/coworker/neighbor/etc) is a rapist is just like the Spanish Inquisition.

Yup; I love this kind of thing!

It’s not the actual game I would have a problem with...it’s playing with Tom Cruise and a bunch of other Scientologist wack-a-doodles on 3 acres of secluded land.

Considering she’s so high-profile, if she dies or disappears anytime in the near future, Miscavige et. al. know they’ll be the prime suspects.

What I got out of it is that Tom is a big, fat liar when he says he doesn’t believe in using mind-altering substances.

I think I read about that in Anne Rule’s “The Stranger Beside Me,” which is a creepy book because of how well she knew Bundy and yet never suspected he was a serial killer.

I adore your pun.

But he understands the womenz because he lives with three of them!

And here I thought they were doing some B&E to gather blackmail material on the Oscar committee.

When I worked at Bob Evans, millions of years ago, we had fried cod on the menu and I had one lady who was so terribly confused about it. It hurts my head to think about, to this day.

Well, color me shocked! Then again, we’re talking about Lansing....

There’s also the fact that they get a lot of their ideas from TV, movies, etc. According to a news piece I heard/saw/whatever (I think it was NPR?) the average American has 2-4 sexual partners in their lifetime. The average creative and/or famous person (such as a screenwriter) might double that to 4-8. The average…

That’s what my doctor just told me to do. She said it would be especially practical for me to do so, since my periods are so painful.

When I was in college, my music department’s fraternity (of which I was a part) screened “Grease” and “Chicago” in the same auditorium where weekly Mass was being held. I kind of felt like the room needed to be blessed again, especially after everyone sang along to “Grease Lightning.”

Agreed. Either the customer let it sit around too long, or the worker made it poorly. Unless it fell off the counter and the container broke.