One of the things that is really wearing on me lately is how our consumer culture hides the means of production from the end-product purchasers (me!). I feel like I have been complicit in an entire economy of exploitation without even realizing it. I don't want to be a part of that, and I don't want to support it. I…

This guy is being a litigious jerk, but he is - in principle - right, even if the argument he is using is poorly founded and executed. I agree that there are many men (my partner, for example) who shy away from weights when the big, muscular guys are there, so gym intimidation affects everyone, not only women.

I can't stand this song... but it is so perfectly creepy when placed with this video, and I kind of love it for that.

I segregate the potatoes: mashed potatoes is one of my all time favorite foods, but I am just not that into french fries (I KNOW, I'M SORRY). Pasta at #17 is a damn joke. It needs to be higher. In my list, it's top 3, with thin crust pizza in there. Corn tortillas didn't even make the list (I haven't ever gotten them…

Damn, there is A LOT of UMD sorority/fraternity email barf coming our way lately. Is there just someone on the inside who is fed up and therefore giving us a snippet of what all Greek life is like, or is this a UMD specific thing? I work at UMD - I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is at least somewhat endemic.

It isn't their accents that make them cute, at least not to me... it is their comedic timing coupled with how precocious having said timing is for their age. I get the impression that they know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they are doing it well. Plus, they are young children, still growing, still in need of…

Yay! Thank you!

Thank you so much for answering! The part about the period makes perfect sense. Now I understand why when I click that, no previous stuff comes up above it - it doesn't see it as a reply.

I have questions about the Twitter.

Las Vegas has a mobile bus that picks you up and delivers fluids intravenously. I was strongly considering using it during my last trip, but I never got the chance as I never woke up hungover (it's a MIRACLE!).

Completely agree with the shower... every time I spend an entire day languishing in bed with an awful hangover, when I finally get in the shower, I am in AWE of how much better I feel, and chastise myself for not having showered sooner. Yet the next time I drink, I can't access this very valuable memory for some…

Less a hangover cure and more a hangover prevention: Vitamin B. Pop a few Vitamin B's, chug down a HUGE glass of water, and 9 times out of 10 you'll feel just blah in the morning as opposed to headachey/nauseated.

I love your writing Tracie, but damn. What an odd thing to make fun of.

I actually think this is as bad if not even worse than the original guide. I think Tracie is giving her more credit than is due - I don't think it is "biting" or "turning the tables" - it is just attempting to reify those stereotypes. The paragraph that begins with "My first kiss was black" makes me want to give up…

Go ahead and google "UMD Comcast center" and zoom in on the parking lot... THAT is the real penis of UMD. If the link works... http://goo.gl/maps/E1Oxk

I totally work at UMD and... this seems ABOUT RIGHT. Permanent line mouth every day there. :-|

At first I was like, is Anna being laudatory and not sarcastic about this waitress???? Nothing she is saying is offensive! And then she threw in that totally unnecessary and RUDE last sentence, "I don’t go for black guys." You get it? She's friends with "them" but finds them sexually repulsive. Got it. Cool chick.

Good for her. That's really all that needs to be said.

I had an interesting conversation with a very radical population geographer recently, and she was arguing basically that a lot of the data on how poorly people eat is total bullshit, meant to shame people of color, women, and the economic underclass. With more and more research being released on the uselessness of…

I feel boredom and a little bit of sadness - sadness aimed at the fact that we are glorifying her story when she neither deserves nor needs any of this attention. Addiction is a serious disease and I feel for her for her battle with it... not sure we should be feeding her addiction to attention in the process.