So I’m reading this article on The Atlantic about Hillary Clinton writing an article for The Toast, and I came across a line in The Atlantic article that shocked me:

Today’s reminder that people are still doing good in the world comes from Cristal Logothetis, a California mother and small business-owner who started a charity that has been successful beyond her dreams. Carry the Future started as an idea. Cristal Logothetis, like much of the world, was horrified by pictures of Alan…

If you are near my age (and I know at least a few of you are as ancient as me), Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill album was the song of your preteen adolescent years. Ironic, the song notoriously without any ironies in it, was absolutely inescapable for a while in 1996. I can’t understate the impact this song and…

Less than one week to go! Anyone got any fun plans?

This happened this morning.

Groupthinkers, I need your help! This White House petition needs to get about 11,700 more signatures in the next four days if we want the White House to respond to it. The petition asks the Obama administration to raise the amount of refugees it has pledged to resettle in the next year from 10,000 to 65,000, the…

There’s a rather alarmist article over at The Atlantic this week worrying that J.K. Rowling is tinkering too much with her Harry Potter universe, eight years after the end of the series. Rowling has put forth scattered information about the Potterverse since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in 2007,…

And I feel terrible. Background on why I have to give him up here. I don’t know what to do. We went to the veterinarian, who prescribed anti-anxiety meds, but we can’t get him to take them. Have tried pill pockets, hiding in treats, pill dispensers, nothing works. We’ve tried pheromones. His behavior is getting worse.…

Poor Elsa is going to have a rough time as queen.

I have a two year old black cat, who I adopted as a 9 week old kitten. I love him to death, and he’s driving me crazy and worrying me sick.

This is going to be a weird one.

And now I want to go buy the DVD so I can listen to Ben Affleck’s commentary, which is a sentence I never thought I’d write.

In a new scene leaked to YouTube, it appears that Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes inspiration from Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver’s previous film, Inside Llewyn Davis. Kathleen Kennedy is a producer for the new Star Wars film.

Though it might seem counter-intuitive at first, science fiction and fantasy has a proud tradition in the realm of musical theater and musical films. From Little Shop of Horrors to The Wizard of Oz, from Rocky Horror Picture Show to the Disney Animated Studios canon, universes where magic and other mysterious forces…

It has come. The Rubicon crossing. There will be no turning back: I need to buy a minivan.