My parents were crazy hippies in South Carolina and my dad wanted to name me "Alameda Belle" after some ancient folk singer. My grandfather objected that it sounded "like a race-horse" and I ended up with something else.

I can't believe no one has suggested this yet: just take a lot of shrooms and go! I mean, I wouldn't do it because there's too many fucking people around and I never even wanted to go to Disney World when I was a kid, and I even kind of hate on Disney movies although my husband loves them and has taught my kinds to do…

Not only is it true, it's also fair game. Reagan was already showing signs of Alzheimer's at the end of his first term and his advisers/media team successfully covered it up, allowing him to go on to serve at least one full year in office, his last, while mentally incompetent to do so, and possibly as many as five.…

OTOH every person from Myanmar I've ever met in Asia calls their country Myanmar. Like, all of them. My kids go to school with plenty of kids from Myanmar. They're really kind of annoyed when random people call their country some other name British imperialists called it 60 years ago.

It's almost like women should feel free to choose whatever kind of life they wish. Cray cray!!!

It isn't the worst thing ever. You're not running around up in da club with Nelly when your baby is 5 months old, and you will be tired as fuck for a little while, but each varying stage of baby is charming in its own way, and pretty soon they can talk and bring you glasses of wine while you lie in bed reading the…

Well then ignore my advice from Singapore!

I'm the crazy one with the crazier, evil—well, evil-ish—in-laws in my relationship. (They're just misunderstood.) My husband's family is so boring. God.

Um, I guess I'll be "that mom" here, but you know if you buy those Valhrona bittersweet paillettes that are ovals like 1 inch long and just hand chop them into irregularly-sized chips with a chef's knife, they make HELLA GOOD chocolate chip cookies. You need to make the cookies big, like maybe 8 or even 6 to the…

Seeing this drives me crazy (not you per se but the formulation/concept). Adult men living in households don't "help with" chores. They "do" chores. They would be "helping" someone if it were someone else's job (like their wife's) and they were just chipping in. They ain't helping. They are doing. (Ideally.)

We got a fuckton of guns at my family home in South Carolina too. IN A GUN SAFE. To be fair, I think my dad sometimes has a handgun in his bedside table drawer. Mostly we just have a pitbull (who would actually hide, and then lick intruders to death, but they don't know that, and she barks good.)

You've been doing yeoman's work in these comment threads, dude. As a Jezebel/Gawker/io9 reader currently and happily free from any tearing in the vaginal area I say: well done. Actually, like many people, I'm a reader of all the sites from time to time, doing my part to keep Nick Denton rolling comfortably on his pile…

This would be a fairer complaint if we were reasoning backwards from his appearance to his actions. Going forward after a criminal has committed a crime (albeit allegedly, though this is one in which there are many multiple eyewitnesses) it's not unreasonable to latch onto any aspect of the criminal to make fun of him…

Being able to share your story with people honestly online, even in a pseudonymous forum like this, can make a huge difference in terms of how you feel and can lessen a lot that feeling of being "other" and "separate" from everyone else, and of suppressing a well of poison that's bubbling up from deep inside you all…

I'm sorry to hear about your horrible experiences. I hope that you can heal with thoughtful partners and can do your best to ignore the behavior of the unrepentant assholes who are masquerading as your buddies. I have struggled with these issues being someone who was sexually abused as a child and who was...I dunno,…

But seriously you guys, DONKEY SAUCE? DONKEY SAUCE?!?!? I, personally, can't calm down. I'm scared. Who would call their...? What's in the...? AAAAAAACKSJGGSFJ

My friend did egg whites and a pastry brush for this maneuver.

NEVER FORGET.

My grandma was a friend of Tennessee Williams, and so she got to go to the cast party for the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. She said Marlon Brando was there in white jeans and a dark blue turtleneck sweater (this was in the '50s so a pretty badass/casual outfit) and was just teh hottness in real…

Not enough stars! Do people look down on abortion sturgeons that much?