How have you responded to her cries? Do you think she's looking for attention and your responses are encouraging her? One of my cats is a whiny whiner, and I'm pretty sure I inadvertently encouraged it over time by consistently and promptly responding to him with positive encouragement. (I still find it adorable,…

Insert usual ironies here — GF foods are often even more highly processed, most people who are GF for legit health reasons usually don't eat these substitutes too frequently, etc, etc. But I'm not complaining, because I can order GF pizza for delivery now and then, and I couldn't have imagined that a few years ago.

Congrats and best wishes for a quick, smooth closing!

In the case of the Obamas (and other politicians, I imagine), it's done to distinguish when they've written that tweet themselves (as opposed to staff).

Agree, and I think Prince is awesome. It was just... try-hard and really weakly put together. :/ It missed the mark even for bad-campy-fun.

Not living in Chicago anymore helped illuminate for me how much of the Cutler hatred is a Chi-town media-generated phenomenon. He's solid. Is he top 5? No, but he's pretty good, and he's leagues ahead of anything the Bears have had for decades. It's also not helpful to think of him in total isolation. He clicks…

UPS can suck it. A delivery guy broke our doorbell. (He essentially punched the thing to death - as in, physically broke the plastic, so it jammed stuck, and the hardwires started smelling electrical fire-y a few minutes later - thank goodness I was home.) We reported it. Their insurance "investigated" it for over…

Don't be too impressed. He's an ophthalmologist but is not board-certified - something something about refusing to recognize the legitimacy of board certifications, AKA, playing along with society's rules is just too hard.

"I think I dated this self important quasi intellectual asshole" - I'd say same here, except mine came without the Asian fetish add-on pack. Seriously, this guy's writing reminded me so much of my ex. How many of them are there out there??

The French poet Ronsard pulled the same thing in the 1500s in his Ode a Cassandre - wherein he compares her young beauty to that of a blooming rose, before quickly reminding her that all flowers wilt and die, so she should get with him while the getting's good.

A humble reminder to call and email your representatives, especially if they're Republican. Send John Boehner an email letting him know that hiding behind the Hastert rule is both cowardly and treasonous. Write/tweet/email news orgs.

Right? I have been fascinated (though not surprised) by certain GIF'ed up tumblrs oohing and aahing over the 'love story' of Daya and Bennett, and really romanticizing Bennett to boot. Incredibly complex issues of consent and manipulation have been distilled down to starry-eyed shipping. I'd love to see more debate.

Hear hear. I'm in the same boat with a moderate but very real wheat sensitivity/allergy, but thankfully not celiac. I try to be clear about the distinction (without being a special snowflake) in situations that require explanation. . But I feel some weird guilt/shame/slight solidarity melange — I fear I'm…

I dunno, I don't see it flaunting privilege at all. I feel like it's a pretty effective skewering of her white privilege and the sheltered naivete that class privilege brings. She's the protagonist, but not the heroine - IMO.

Then don't.

Kind of a Riker beard going on there. I like.