I saw an article about how a reporter contacted the parents asking if they knew that this kind of arrangement was illegal — that you are required to pay the nanny even if you provide room and board. The mother got indignant, accused the reporter of trying to make her look like the bad guy, demanded that the phone…

As someone who obsessively read and re-read L. Frank Baum as a kid, I really loved the crossed-out text in this sentence:

Out of all the offensive things in his original interview, the most purely annoying was his insistence on trying to drag everyone else into his own racist box — insisting that everyone uses the racist and offensive words that he uses, but that he's the only one honest enough to admit it. It's actually kind of…

. . . I just re-read my earlier post and see a bunch of errors (mostly pronouns not agreeing with the subject, but probably a bunch of other errors as well). Sigh.

It's horrifying. This story has a feel-good aspect to it, and I'm glad that this time it turned out okay. But it is seriously horrifying how easy it is for this kind of thing to happen. And horrifying that an entire population of people has to walk around everyday with the fear that it could so easily happen to…

You are awesome. And these descriptions are all weirdly, hilariously accurate.

I wish there were a compilation of the various descriptions of Adam Levine from Jezebel and Gawker. It would be a good list. (I vaguely remember one about how he was a bad tribal tattoo come to life.)

I agree with pretty much all of this. But I've been assuming this whole time that Robin Thicke's constant public begging is designed to impress people with his devotion to his wife (such that they view him as a Bad Boy With a Golden Heart whose albums they must buy), rather than to convince his wife to come back.

I really love this post. It's so sweet how your parents tried to make your birthday special, and how happy it made you. (My family was like this in some ways — we were very poor, with most of our toys coming from garage sales, but I didn't know it because my mom worked so hard to make birthdays and holidays special…

What happened to your daughter is horrific beyond words. And then I felt like my head was going to explode when I was reading the questions asked during the interview. I hope your daughter gets some kind of justice. And I am glad that she has you, because you sound like an awesome parent.

I find her face painful to look at. I don't mean because I think she is ugly (though my general dislike of her does make me see her as very unattractive). I mean that her facial expressions actually look painful — like things are getting pulled and stretched in a physically painful way.

Just on the Asian-eyes point: I remember that there was a period of my life where I didn't see anyone do the whole pulling-back-the-eyes thing, and I started to think that maybe people had finally learned that it was offensive and really, really not funny. But it's apparently very common at my daughter's school…

I would give you 20 more stars if I could.

I'm Asian, and most of my friends are not. I am not an exception in that way.

Your description of Justin Bieber as "an adult baby" is perfect. And it suddenly seems very important to post this picture again (which I can only interpret as Justin Bieber being placed into his car seat).

I wish I could leave exactly the same image for your post. Because that's just excellent.

I love this comment so much. SO MUCH. It is awesome and hilarious and brilliant, and is maybe the only bearable thing about this horribly sad and infuriating story.

I should have been more clear — I teared up in a happy way, because of the very kind things you said. And that gif is awesome.

Thank you. It's been a few years now since we lost that cat (she was crazy and weird and sweet, and my daughter still misses her), but your response made me tear up a little.

I wanted to echo what you said about oral problems in cats being an overlooked issue — something that even good vets can misdiagnose. We had a rescue cat that was of a breed that is apparently prone to stomatitis (something we didn't learn till it was too late). She had terrible, terrible breath and was clearly in…