What's your sweet Thanksgiving tradition?

Pumpkin Pie! Lots of whipped cream! A traditional Thanksgiving dessert staple. But, have you ever tried sweet potato pie? Or do you change it up some other way? Like, pumpkin dessert bars? Or an...

Why won't Rush apologize?

Rush Limbaugh recently spread information over his show that turned out to be false - something that was originally posted as satire, but that was shared by someone else who didn't notice that it was...

Is anyone else having a problem with posting responses to myLot???

I've been trying to post a response to someone's discussion, but it keeps going back to a blank response box. It doesn't matter whether I use submit or review - it just reverts to a blank box. Anyone...

What triggers you to think about a particular person?

Sometimes it's a song, or a place, or a date on the calendar, or even something you're eating. Today, my trigger was a discussion subject header on MyLot. "Save Gas -- Toot in a Jar" OF ALL THINGS!!!...

RIP Shady Cat

Earlier this evening, my Shady lady cat took her final journey, with medical assistance. I've always said she was around 23 based on a vet's estimate from 1996, but the vet who did the duty had her...

Just how was she that he preferred jail to being with her?

Apparently mighty damn bad! This guy was so afraid of his wife who he claimed abused him regularly that he robbed a bank just to get arrested. And, the arresting officer seems to understand after...

OMFG! These people HAD to be crazy to try this!!!

This interest is MORE than perfect for this news story! What kind of idiot would take this kind of risk? I don't care HOW horn-y you are, there HAS to be a better idea (or a better device) than a...

That's how they look when they're dead!!

That's what the funeral employee told the widow when she said it wasn't her husband in the coffin. Despite the fact that the man was shorter and had a darker complexion, she insisted that the man...

Outrageous behavior! They don't deserve to be free!!

I just read a news story out of the UK wherein a mother allowed her boyfriend and his brother to torture, injure and eventually kill her 18 month old son. She sat in another room while they beat him...

Apparently, for some, obesity has its advantages....

I put this here because there really isn't anywhere else to put it. The man in this news item is LARGE. So am I, but he's got well over 200 lbs on me. As a woman, I'm familiar with the "pencil" test...