Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

You watching Gilmore Girls revival, too? :P Eh, I tagged along for about half an episode while my wife was watching before I lost interest. (To put that in context, that means that today I doubled my lifetime total Gilmore Girls watching time.) I was actually running some stats on the Board and pas...

Literally every thing I can think of that my life has in common right now with where I expected my life would be ten years ago: 1. I am currently married I honestly can't think of anything else, and even the details of #1 aren't very similar to what I expected them to be. This isn't entirely bad. Gi...

I'd give the guy a lot more credibility (as an honest person, not as a correct person) if he was willing to debate his contentions rather than refute everything with "read my book!" As I type these words on a glowing screen that is about to send them through the air to put them on a server...

Having thought it over for a few days, it still really bothers me that people (I don't know if it's on the site or not) talk about homosexuality the same way they talk about being a paraplegic. I mean, at least it's a step up from talking about homosexuality the same way they talk about child abuse,...

Last time someone did what this guy suggests, BYU became a literal national laughingstock and target of incredulous outrage. Even if you ignore all of the excellent reasons given by the writers, it's just a ridiculously horrible idea from a public relations standpoint.

Also probably accurate. This was more a response to TJcools' "YOU MUST INTERVENE AND STOP EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW" attitude. There's really not enough in the original question to draw too many firm conclusions about the state of this person's relationship with their family.

Upon re-reading the question, I think you are right. This is what I get for going off of week-old memories. That said, this just tells me that the only leverage anyone has is money: "cancel the operation or we'll quit helping you pay for food and housing." You can probably imagine all the ...

I thought about responding to the response but thought better of it. Nobody's mind was going to be changed by that discussion. From the sound of the question, this person's sibling is a financially independent adult. I'm not sure what sort of "intervention" this reader had in mind, but I'm...

For those of you who have opinions and care to share them: What do you think of the new version of the Church's Mormon/Gay web site?

The good news: Word works just fine now. The bad news: This came at the cost of my computer spending an hour and a half installing an update, then telling me it couldn't install it properly, then spending the next hour and a half uninstalling that same update. This is the second time it's happened. ...

Chilean Spanish (and maybe other Spanish, I don't know) uses "pareja" (pair or partner) to refer to anything from a long-term significant other to an actual legal spouse. I agree - there's a really frustrating gap for "long-term boyfriend/girlfriend" in our language. Hopefully th...

After further investigation, it looks like the issue is probably connected to my OneDrive account. I can get stuff off of it but it freezes when I try to upload anything (or when it decides something of mine needs to be uploaded, for instance, every time I close a document). Does anyone know how to ...

Hallelujah autorecover actually did its job this time. Usually when Works crashes I end up losing everything.

I know it's trivial, I know I can easily recreate the one page of writing that I lost, but it is really pissing me off that Microsoft Word keeps crashing on me. For some reason, this now happens every time I try to close a document; if I'm not lucky, it happens when I try to open one too. And random...

That's where I am with housing right now. The rental market in California is absolutely evil.

As I understand it, it's true on paper. Whether or not it's true in practice, I have no idea. I'm guessing it's a rule that mostly exists for leverage - "we know your roommate broke a rule; cooperate with us and you won't get in trouble but don't cooperate and we can ding you for it too" -...

Oh man. That debate. I have never been so impressed with Secretary Clinton. Apart from her sheer competence and command of the facts, I think the single best moment of the night was when she just kept talking over Trump until he finally gave up one of the first times he interrupted her. She looked p...

I thought the response made sense for someone who is single or without dependents/family to care for. The present/future payoff was an interesting point to ponder. But I think if you have kids or a spouse, neglecting self-care can have serious consequences for your loved ones future. That is reason...

That's a good excuse if I've ever heard one. Good luck!