There are only nine or ten really nasty people in the world, but they move around a lot. That borrowed line opens the best post on this blog, about living alongside somebody relentlessly negative, and it goes somewhere unexpected. The writer notices she was matching the energy she disliked rather than resisting it.
The rest is loud on purpose. A nuclear plant leaking into the ocean daily with a cover-up alleged from the start. A sweetener rebranded under a friendlier name and sold as natural. A restaurant meltdown reported with obvious glee.
A guest post retells the myth of Pandora as an argument about being frightened of your own capability rather than your inadequacy, and it is the gentlest thing here by a distance.
There is a short piece on network marketing done online, and a look at a vitamin format promising more than the usual.
Read the negative people post if somebody in your life is draining you, and the nuclear one if you assumed that story had ended.