Not a tangent, but relevant. And I get it. The concept of a Higher Power isn't for everyone. We can all have morals and ethics, and treat our fellow people the way we would like to be treated. That's all that really matters.

I'm glad to see a kindred spirit here. I belong to a very liberal Christian denomination and I get so tired of people acting like those two terms are mutually exclusive. (Or acting like science and religion — or even spirituality — are mutually exclusive, but that's a whole other comment thread.) The way I define my…

I had pretty much the same dilemma as LW #1. The frustrating part of my situation is that this couple (and especially the wife) kept their bigotry cloaked for so long that I already liked her and a friendship had already developed before her true colors started coming out. I wrote about it here, but I should also…

There was an episode of My Strange Addiction about this very thing! This woman couldn't sleep without her hair dryer running (comfort thing) and she had burned herself and her sheets and practically set the house on fire a number of times, but couldn't kick the habit.

Truth. And this has been no secret for decades. Some of my family members were on food stamps 30 years ago when the breadwinner was active military, and they did not live in a high cost of living area, nor were they spendthrifts. In fact, they were (and still are) incredibly frugal DIYers. I thought it was shameful…

I much prefer nova lox to smoked salmon, which is usually all dry and chewy. But I mean I love me some lox.

What? I always have lox on hand, that's how much I love it. Smoky, buttery goodness. I eat it a couple times a week. Maybe you don't like fish or maybe you haven't had any good nova lox.

I never said that it did. I just don't see the need for the mass hysteria. Yes, she was wrong. It was a stupid thing to do. The restaurant had every right to ask her to leave. Is everyone going to die? I don't think anyone is even going to be sick, if they even noticed. Does that mean we should give this lady a pass?…

I think it's a matter of including the readers who have been affected by this, to gain support from readership, so it's not just the writers going back yet again to complain to management. It seems to me that the writers are looking to show management, through the comments, that this problem is affecting individual…

Where did I call you indecent? I do not see that in my comment.

Nothing I said was indecent. I completely agree that what this woman did was wrong. I think that the restaurant was entirely within their rights to ask her to leave, thereby setting a precedent and very definitely making it a "big deal." But if you would call the President and the CDC if someone did that near you, you…

All I'm saying is that, yes, it's unsanitary to change a poopy diaper near food. It's gross. But let's not get overly pearl-clutchy about this specific scenario when a simple bus ride is exposing you to a ton of the same germs and worse. A flushing toilet spews a ton of germs into the air. We are exposed to this stuff…

There is potential poop next to (or in) your food every time you eat in a restaurant. There are no guarantees that kitchen staff know how to (or do) wash properly. I'm not defending this woman — I think she made the wrong choice — but let's not delude ourselves that we're not exposed to other people's shit on a daily…

Obviously she didn't consider all of those things. I said it was a bad decision. I'm sure she felt she could be unobtrusive about it or she wouldn't have done it. And she was wrong. I think herself and her own children would have been most at risk for any contamination. I certainly wouldn't want to see it if I were…

Yeah I said it was a bad decision. I was just trying to put myself in her place and try to understand what may have gone through her mind at that moment. It doesn't make it OK. Calm down.

I am sure I would not have chosen to do this with my daughter when she was a baby. That said, I only have the one kid. I can't imagine dealing with three at once. I know my limitations pretty well. I was the type of mom who only did the grocery shopping when the baby was home with her father. But if you have two…

I've dealt with various small animals (squirrels, raccoons) finding a way into my eaves over the years, but the final time took the cake. I had long since repaired any possible method of ingress for the little fuckers when I had my entire house re-sided. The contractor was very professional and they did a great job.…

I just had dinner out recently with a party of 13, which consisted of four separate couple/family groups. We made sure to sit together in our respective groups, which possibly the server witnessed us doing, because I got up and moved and sort of made a thing about "Let's organize ourselves for the separate checks."…

I dated a guy who (years before I met him) had lost his father after an accident. His mother then married his grandfather (late father's father). It affected him very weirdly.

Don't insult Doug Wilson like that.