Barnum is right! No, not THIS Barnum - P.T. Barnum. I guess there really IS a sucker born every minute.

I think it’s important to acknowledge that ideas you might have about how to raise children might change once you actually have a kid - and the change might be pretty radical. Also, it’s ludicrous to imagine that you’ll never reconsider what you value as a parent/adult/family - we are not the same people at 35 that we…

I do. Please note that I am not into health food, I am into champagne.

Great post! “Kokomo” was my favorite song in college, with Enya’s “Orinoco Flow” running a close second. “Kokomo” is a fabulous dumb song, but in my opinion it shouldn’t really qualify as a Beach Boys song. Mike Love singing, recording and touring with a bunch of guys who are not the Wilson brothers and Al Jardin are…

She got fired and this guy still has a job?!?!?!

Wait...you lose toes when you’re old? Is this like losing teeth when you’re a kid, and omg why didn’t anybody tell me about this?!?

And all before the term “second shift” was coined. (Ans I want to smack the husband who clearly is doing something special by volunteering to cook tonight...) But to be fair, they only changed a couple of the lyrics of a genuinely badass song from 1962 that celebrates a woman’s spectacularly hot abilities (albeit in…

I go months without even thinking about Pepsi. I don’t believe the advertisers set out to make an intentionally tin-eared commercial and yet...everybody’s talking about Pepsi. If there truly is no such thing as bad publicity, I’d say this is the most successful commercial in recent history.

I work at a high school and ours was pretty good, too. Unfortunately, I spent most of the training either sobbing at the thought of school shootings or musing that I’m much more worried about being accidentally shot by any number of my gun toting friends and neighbors.

My husband used to say that you know it’s time to potty train when the child starts making adult sized dumps (as you say, around 3!)

I dunno, my daughter wasn’t easy to potty train. I think I made too big of a deal about how great it was that she was in Pull-Ups, so then she was like, “Okay, I’m in Pull-Ups now, that’s all I need to do.” She absolutely would not take the next step until she wanted to take dance class and I told her that the studio…

Every year, in 11th grade American History, the most beloved history teacher in my public suburban Pennsylvania high school held a slave auction in class. Some of the class were slaves, others were buyers, and one person was an auctioneer. As I recall, she had a block people stood on and everything, but I might be…

I could not love this picture more.

As one who lived through Katrina, I can only hope that this show highlights the greatest and least acknowledged villain: the Corps of Engineers.

Interesting that the party that has decimated the power of organized labor is now enjoying the benefits of a union shop. People who are against unions seem to miss that while the union is meant to work FOR the members in terms of securing benefits, safe working environment, salary etc, it also supports the employer in…

Thank you for calling DCFS! That is awful.

OMG, this is amazing, thank you for posting it!

OMG, when I was about 8, I decided it was Be Kind to Animals Week, so I made myself a sandwich board and walked up and down my empty street, screaming about being nice to your dog. My mom stood on the front porch, taking pictures and laughing at me. Also quite ineffective!

The dumbest cause I ever supported was casting my very first presidential vote for Dukakis. Seemed legit at the time, I was in college in Massachusetts and everybody seemed to think he was okay. Plus, there was no way I was going to not vote for the Dem, so you know, what could I do?

Your story was my favorite!