For some reason, I couldn't stop laughing at "Endless, Horrible Regret."

I found this essay beyond self-congratulatory, and completely pretentious. No wonder everyone loves it.

At least it's his friends' kids, instead of, you know, his buddies that he gave jobs to that work four hours a day and get raises and company cars, and that commit egregious HR violations but the boss is HR and if you complain about them you're fired.

My boss loves to yell at everyone for the software development project we're doing. He has never, ever, ever seen it. He just likes to yell at people for not getting it finished. He doesn't even understand what the bugs are and why they need to be fixed.

Edit to add: Sorry, i was thinking of The Long Walk.

Exactly. I never understood how they based the movie on his story, when the story has nothing to do with the movie.

That story was how you REALLY do dystopian drama.

The question is not IF they crossed paths, but if the one and only monk occupies the same space at the EXACT SAME TIME as he did the previous day. So your analogy of sitting at the mountain for thirty years and racing for five minutes is especially egregious.

Margaritas are my favorite drink, and name to boot. I was hired at this company to do the job of said "MBA guy", who is younger than me and with half my educational experience. When the senior person - who hired me to do most of her tasks - left the company, this man inexplicably got her job. And made a sudden huge…

It is so, so true. All the men that say patriarchy doesn't exist has never been at my place of work. The only people in management are men. Women who have been here for twenty or thirty years and know the entire workings of the company intimately were passed up for a male just-out-of-an-online-MBA-program, who…

YES. There's someone who got promoted above me for a job I was targeted for. And has proceeded to make a bloody mess of it. No one likes him, not even his own relatives that work in the office.

I dislike birthday parties, but I see why corporate insists on doing them. Boosting morale, trying to make people feel happier at the place where they spend 90% of their lives, and engendering a bit of work is your family.

Exactly. What's surprising is how a promising field - radio-labelled antibodies to tumor surface antigens - is barely making headway to curing cancer. I really thought it would be the magic bullet, and it saddens me that despite knowledge of tumors and their genetics/characteristics, we're no closer to eradicating…

They actually say that more people are getting shingles now because of herd immunity amongst kids. The more exposure, the more your body produces immune responses to keep shingles down.

Exactly. I got an IUD and was told by some people that it hurt like hell, and other people who appeared mystified, and said it didn't hurt at all.

You're right. It's not simply a matter of "they haven't felt real suffering yet, so they can't imagine how it feels." There's something more sinister at play here that I just can't put my finger on. It's tempting to chalk it all down to sociopaths having a better playground and a concentrated meeting place, but I…

That's so awful, and it makes me think about the medical examiner in this case. It's horrible just hearing about it - let alone seeing the damage for yourself?

I also have a three month old girl, after so many years of trying for one. I can't even imagine the horror.

Everyone says this like it's fact, but there's no real evidence.

One of the Gawker sites featured a book by Dr. Judy Melinek about the worst death she ever saw. It was from her latest book. In that instance, the person was tossed into a steam tunnel and was basically cooked to death, while cognizant. His organs, upon autopsy, were all hard and unyielding, instead of floppy and…