My moment of commitment

  Dear gentle readers, I’ve done everything I know how to get through my challenges by myself. But now I’m in a bind that I can’t get out of on my own in time and it feels suicidal not to come clean about my situation and ask for help. My problem is my 16-year-old car …

Weight loss advice guaranteed to make you fat

Over at PJMedia, physician Theodore Dalrymple asks a question that German immigrant and pediatrician Hilde Bruch posed and answered over the course of her career starting in 1935, when she founded a clinic for obese children at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.* The question is, “What are we to make of the fact …

The Six Best Ways to Stop Outlook from Double-Spacing Your E-mails

If it drives you crazy that Outlook seems to randomly double-space your double-spaced e-mails, making them quadruple-spaced, Slipstick.com has the best explanation of the cause: When you press Enter while creating HTML email, Outlook inserts a paragraph tag (<p>), so two Enters (for white space between the paragraphs) inserts two <p> tags, which is double …