Man, if that's true about KimK, she's a lucky girl. In my experience (and that of everyone I know) breastfeeding hurts like fuck at first!

I...live in Bridgeport. You're right. It's changing, but the old guard is hanging on tightly. Before Everyblock shut down, I got a disturbing glimpse into the minds of these people - seemingly nice folks who see nothing wrong with publicly declaring that if they saw a black person on their street, they'd shoot.

Funnily enough, I'm from the Southside, and I hear the n-word more here than anywhere else I've been, including in all the time I've spent in the South. I heard it multiple times just today. And yet I know people here who would argue that we are way smarter and better than those dumbass rednecks down south.

Recently I was in Jefferson, Texas (yeah, yeah, not really the South, whatever) and the quaint little general store had reproduction copies of Little Black Sambo right next to the nostalgia candy and novelty pencils. I asked the black teenagers behind the counter if the book bothered them, and they rolled their eyes…

I've been doing turbans and head scarves for ages in the summer. It's the solution to problematic hair.

Oh thank you! I like how it's not weird or common. Plus I still really like Gus, maybe he'll grow into it?

Because they would be! I know Gooey Butter Cake certainly is.

Thanks! I made it myself :D

Matt: "So, Paula, are you a racist?"

For years and years (after reading "The Robber Bride" as a teen), I wanted to name a son West. When the time actually came, my husband hated it, it rhymed with our last name, and worst of all, Weston was making inroads on the popularity charts. Oh well.

I don't see anything wrong with that part. We named our kid August with the idea we would call him Gus for short - we liked Gus a lot but wanted him to have a more formal name for when he's an adult. Turns out we've never called him Gus because August suits him so well, but still. I stand by our reasoning.

He was so young. I am shocked. One of his kids is still a baby.

My grandma was like that. She truly did not get why it was offensive to tell a lady at her church that she dressed her kids nicely "for a n****** woman," no matter how we tried to explain it to her. She thought it was a compliment! But her behavior I can at least chalk up to a combo of isolation and willful…

This is good info. Not that I'm vegan but since vegan pastry is inherently healthy it's OK to eat a dozen (lolrite) (seriously some people believe this).

In my experience, they DO need to be told. I just don't understand why. Forget the smell, doesn't it itch? You'd think if they had enough stuff left in there to make a mark on their undies, that it would be noticeably uncomfortable.

So who has the best donuts where you live, Jezzies? Here in Chicago, the fancy donut trend has taken off, and in that category I rank Do-Rite (Valhrona chocolate frosted; Meyer lemon) as tops. But for best all-around Old Fashioned on the far South Side is it. Their apple fritter is dinner-plate sized and pure magic,…

It looks like an apple fritter, which are either divine or gross, no middle ground.

I was just talking about this with my husband (his experience growing up in a small Texas town has been super relevant today!). As a kid he was surrounded by people who thought nothing of tossing words like that around, and yes, those sorts of fans will not be fazed by it. But I think that it will lessen her appeal to…

No, she's hardly an intellectual, but she was canny enough to parlay her down-home thing into fame, so I'd think she'd be brighter than this.

That's what I was getting at too. There's being truthful in a deposition and then there's using language like that. It was so unnecessary that you have to assume it's what she feels in her heart of hearts.