I don't remember that.

Whether you are for or against the serial comma, this is just crazy talk:

One use of a comma is as a replacement for "and" or "or," so to use a comma before the last word in a series is to say, for example, "the flag is red and white and and blue."

I agree. In fact, I'm afraid that she would fall into the dreaded GRAMMAR SNOB category, according to June Casagrande. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is the BEST grammar book I have ever read because it points out all of the inconsistencies from style guide to style guide. It's also laugh-out-loud funny. (Every Buffista should read and love it.)

"Your date's over, mister." - cool article about two women in a bar who spotted a guy trying to slip a drug into his date's beer.

I vote that when Daisy Jane comes to visit -- and, later, when Allyson makes it up for a weekend -- we all go to that bar and leave those women great whopping tips. They just seem like DJ and Allyson's kind of women (and in the alternate universe where Allyson is a bartender, I can totally hear her saying "Your date's over, mister," though I think she would punctuate the statement with a golf club or baseball bat upside the asshole's head).

(Possibly also brenda.)

I vote that when Daisy Jane comes to visit -- and, later, when Allyson makes it up for a weekend -- we all go to that bar and leave those women great whopping tips. They just seem like DJ and Allyson's kind of women

Cool! And awwww, thanks.

Absolutely!!! And I can't believe that the guy had a SECOND dose. How fucked up is that?

One use of a comma is as a replacement for "and" or "or," so to use a comma before the last word in a series is to say, for example, "the flag is red and white and and blue."

I agree.

Not to mention that it's inconsistent. It says "ONE use of a comma". In her example, there is more than one comma.

They just seem like DJ and Allyson's kind of women

Yup. Although in Allyson's case, I'm pretty sure date-rapist would NOT have left the bar on his own two feet.

I love that story.

And I can't believe that the guy had a SECOND dose. How fucked up is that?

I'm so boggled by that that I hardly have room left to be boggled, and irrevocably skeeved, at the fact that at the time he was working for the school district (not directly working with kids, but still -- FUCKED UP).

He didn't just have a second dose--it was a whole new drug. Just monumentally wrong.

Crazy science - drugs to erase traumatic memories

But they already do that! Well, to some degree. I have a cousin who was given a memory killer before they set her arm. They needed her to feel the pain for the procedure so they could be sure they got it right. They just fixed it so she wouldn't remember it. Then her mother told her about it later and she totally freaked out worse than she would have, probably, had she retained her memory.

Besides the guy being a scumbag rapist, I wonder why someone would do that to a date that is going well? Why not try to have sex with your dates the old fashioned way? With consent?

My misanthropy continues to grow.

I was wondering about that too...but rape is less about sex than power. He didn't want to have consensual sex with her at all.