Aaaah, I see. I thought they were having people rate how lonely they were before and after taking a bath, and going from there. Thanks!

Hearted. This is me, too!

Ok, this is the New York Post, not the Times, so I don't know how credible this story is. If it's true, though, it could explain some things that lean the facts towards guilt, such as the short time she spent in the hotel room. She owned five cell phones, had many bank accounts with some large sums of money deposited…

Wait, I'm confused. The title says that a bath is a cure for loneliness, but the blurb says that higher scores in chronic loneliness are correlated with more warm bathing? But that cold packs also made someone more lonely? What?

I'm split on this. The fact that she lied about a previous sexual assault does weaken her credibility, even though I understand potential reasons for doing so, such as the difficulty of gaining asylum. Her call to her the man in prison to talk about possible benefits of pursuing the case isn't in and of itself bad…

Oh my goodness, I may have just teared up a little bit. That is so romantic and adorable!

Awesome! Oregon Trail was my *favorite* video game. My brothers loved it, too; my older brother would go the whole game with only bacon and ammunition brought along, and would shoot game for food the rest of the way. I'm the vegetarian of the family.

Sorry, I just can't get my level of rage up for this story; the top picture is far too distracting. Mmm, chocolate milkshakes with whipped cream...

Also, it better be made from the gifted milk of the free cows you befriended who only eat rainbows and drink dewdrops, otherwise you're supporting animal enslavement.

I am SOOOO EXCITED FOR THIS!!! I love Scotland, I love archery, and I love badass princesses. Oh my goodness, I can already tell this is going to be my new favorite movie.

I'm so glad this act has been introduced, and I really hope it passes! However, I think it's also really important for cosmetics to be held to truth in advertising standards. I'm sorry, but that mascara does not make your lashes look 12x longer, and that facial cream will not erase 15 years from your face. There's…

Hearted, even though I unabashedly love Brahms!

I think he threw in Brahms just to make some sort of gesture to the non-hipster classy.

This. Does he not realize that the things included in the middlebrow section ALSO fall under BOTH highbrow and lowbrow due to the way he made his Venn diagram?

I always love a good Federalist Papers reference. "The tyranny of the majority." Classic.

I remember looking at the breed club's website for field spaniel rescues, and searching for them, but I never found any. I could probably call them when the time comes to get another dog (hopefully that will be manymanymany years away!) but my impression was that there wasn't a breed rescue, and that the field…

Field spaniels are rare and regulated enough that there is no breed specific rescue for them. In the past they were overbred, which led to a lot of health problems for the breed. So, the organization in charge of the breed (every breed has one, it's some kind of branch of the AKC, I think) imposed some super-strict…

As I'm not quite sure who's responding to whom, I'll just reply to my general sense of things in this thread.

I think it would make a lot more sense to ban puppy/kitty mills and regulate breeders to keep them responsible. Not all shelter animals are cut out for all kinds of families, especially if there are little kids, which can make it difficult to adopt, especially if you need a particular size of dog or age or…

I agree. My high school started at 7:25 in the morning, and if I had to walk 2.5 miles to school, I would have had to get up at least 30 minutes earlier. (I'm guessing, here.) Maybe more, since the earlier it is, the slower I move in the morning. That's a large difference when your normal, good night of sleep is 6…