Bless people who hold their heads high and fight even as their world falls apart. These women are phenomenal.

I cannot begin to understand the pain and anguish and unrelenting grief of losing a child. But then to have to cope with that on a public stage with strangers saying the asinine bullshit that is all over the media? I cannot fathom that. But to do it with this grace? That's simply amazing. I hope they can find peace…

Racists are going to fill the comments here with complaints that these mothers even DARE grieve the loss of their children. They demand that these mothers see their children as monsters who deserved to die and to be ashamed they raised monsters. That is the essence of this racism - simply being offended that the…

I can't even begin to understand the strength that these ladies have after they have lost so much, to do everything they are doing, hell to do anything at all. It's all just so god damned heartbreaking.

Thing is, they DO know it's not appropriate social behavior. You think they call their moms "cunt" when they don't respond to their texts in thirty minutes? That they call their bosses stuck-up bitches (or dicks) for not getting to their email quickly enough? No, of course not. They KNOW how to handle themselves in…

So I like to say I have bad luck, but the older I get, the more I realize I have the WEIRDEST luck.

My mortifying holiday party experience ended up changing my life completely. It was my first job out of college, it was in my field of choice and I hated it. I was there about 5 months when the holiday party came around. I also happened to be in a horrible marriage, we were young and totally stupid. By the time my…

In the late 90's, I worked a shall-remain-nameless global bank in Sydney. This particular year, the xmas party was held in the very opulent ballroom of a luxe hotel nearby. The bank had had an extremely good year, and the party was off the hook.

Addendum to the Thanksgiving story:

Gawd, I was on tinder for a split second and my first picture was me making what I think was a pleasant face, but definitely not an enormous wide-mouthed grin and I swear about 90% of my messages were "y u no smile : (" at a certain point I just responded by joking that I had no teeth and a mouth full of bleeding gums…

My birthday is exactly a week before Christmas, and as such, is almost always the day that my office chooses to have their holiday party. This has happened several times over the years with various jobs, and it is generally uncomfortable and has occasionally gotten weird.

The most memorable, however, was several…

Petty theft is something that a lot of people do and somehow think it's a strike against "the man" or big corporations or something, but it doesn't really work that way. If you steal from a Wal-Mart, the people who will feel it most acutely are the lowest-level employees and the community who shops there. Where is…

I've never shoplifted, but I did start working at the mall the day after I turned 16. I got $45 for every shoplifter I helped catch or 5% of what they stole (whatever was bigger). It was the only thing that made the job (jewelry) interesting. Aside from the money I enjoyed watching the teenagers cry like two year olds…

Oh haha, well apparently my understanding of religious texts is precisely what you'd expect from an Atheist who really loves the movie "The Prince of Egypt"

I did the classic spit-take. Moses...American? Hahahahhahaaaha.

And how many of the 613 mitzvot do we follow today, Bachy?

Your hypothetical about the persistent mother is the kind of thing that kept coming to mind when I read this article. We are told over and over that we have to be our own best advocates, that we know our bodies best, etc. And the truth is doctors ARE fallible people. And they can be dismissive, and they can be wrong.…

The most troubling thing about this situation is how a young woman with Asperger's is treated so dismissively and horrendously by the medical system. A psychiatric hold and commitment is typically reserved for people who are a danger to themselves or others, and based on the information provided here, she is neither.…

Sounds like the perfect storm of a person suffering from delusions, a possibly very real medical condition (even some docs thought there was something amiss in her ultrasound, though not a pregnancy), and a cavalier attitude on the part of the psych unit at Bellevue. She should never have been hospitalized - the…

Anna,