Yeah, all that stuff about double standards and leaving the party early makes me think this is somebody with a grudge against the "author."

What about the chocolate-covered marshmallow eggs?!?! I know you hate marshmallows, but I will never give them up. They're the best thing about Target's post-Easter clearance section.

This happened to us, too. We went to a Humane Society event with the idea of adopting a kitten, but they were all too bouncy and insane to want anything to do with us. There was a nine month-old cat there that wanted to do nothing but hang out with us, though, so we adopted him. We've had him for eight years, now, and…

Two of the chains near where I live definitely work with rescues (one with the Humane Society and another with a local rescue). Anyone else?

You are definitely woman enough to take care of a cat. Don't worry, if you're even two minutes late feeding the cat, it will be all up in your face meowing at you and looking mournful. It will wake you up by sitting on you and purring it your ear. We have several shelters in the area where I live, and one of them…

You guys, I just started reading Half the Sky. I'm only halfway through, because it's so intense that I have to keep stopping and taking breaks. I'm alternating between being fucking enraged by the things happening to women throughout the world and getting chills hearing about the ways individual women have fought…

I tried to tell my husband about this story, but he started covering his ears and saying, "Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE. NOPE!!!!"

You might especially like Nnedi Okorafor. The title I posted is YA, but she writes adult, too. Got to love a writer with range. :)

Ooh, ooh, ooh! *Puts on librarian hat.* A mix of adult and YA sci-fi:

One of my co-workers started talking about how another co-worker's husband "doesn't LOOK like he's from Argentina" the other day. I don't know how people reach adulthood without realizing that not everyone from a particular country looks the same.

Yes, yes, yes to Cosima. In an alternate universe where I am good enough at science to be a geneticist, I want to be her. Or maybe I just want her amazing apartment.

I tried to find a Youtube video of that Key & Peele sketch where the white guy pours beer all over his A Tribe Called Quest shirt so he can strike up a conversation with them in a bar, but I could only find the intro to it . . .

My husband and I read this and have now decided that we are going to measure everything by Sicilian penises. For example,

Aww, we had a hedgehog once! He was not happy living with us, though. I've heard they can be very affectionate and really bond with you, but our hedgehog's first owner neglected him and he never really came around to liking humans. He really loved rooting around in the yard, though. That was pretty cute.

Unfortunately, yes. He goes around collecting MFAs from different grad schools across the country. He got one from a college near where I live.

Yes, I was going to post about the same documentary. Before I saw it, I thought of exotic pets as things like African grey parrots and pygmy hedgehogs. It's absolutely terrifying what kind of animals people try to keep as pets or in "private zoos." The sad thing about that movie is that it shows how it's the animals…

During college, I was studying abroad in Spain, and my friends and I heard "Fast Car" in a train station. We all just stopped what we were doing and listened to it, because we were all a little homesick and it was this beautiful little piece of home.

I take it back. That is adorable.

I would rather kill and skin the world's last eight-armed Muppet than wear either of those shirts.

I thought this was actually one of the worst so far. I would way rather wear an 8-armed muppet sweater than one of those horrible shirts.