Eh, you kids with your quickie online degrees. Do you know how many seasons of LA Law I had to watch to earn mine? And that was pre-Tivo.

I don't comment often but I've been hanging out at Jez since literally day one. I'll miss reading you here & will look for you out in the big web—Godspeed and thanks.

"Then, pull the sides taught and fold them under." Am I doing it wrong? Because no matter how much I shell out in tuition, my sheets have never been really what you'd call teachable.

I can't let this moment pass without lifting up Susan.

If I really need to laugh, this video will do it every time. And if that makes me a bad person, so be it.

I'm trying to imagine the joy involved in discovering something that's delicious, about the same size as me, and all mine.

See the cat? See the cradle?

I always crack up at the procession of threatening law-enforcement signs when you cross the state line into Virginia: BUCKLE UP IT'S THE LAW. RADAR DETECTORS ILLEGAL. SPEED CHECKED BY RADAR AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. SPEED LIMIT ENFORCED [not checked, but enforced!] BY AIRCRAFT. So welcoming!

Sad here too. He was one of my favorites.

I know! Among his many virtues, he's a shining example of criticism done right—proof that knowledge and standards is not the same thing as having a stick up your ass.

Oh sister! I LOVE THIS.

I dunno, but my hat is off to anyone with a Kurt Vonnegut tattoo.

Rachel Held Evans is on my list of heroes, one of the sanest and bravest voices in evangelical Christianity—or, for that matter, in ANY Christianity.

I know! He's like their Pat Robertson.

Maybe not quite wide enough—I'm in my mid-50s and I'm always surprised how many of us in that general group there seems to be on here. I'm not saying all the time—part of why I'm here is that I like being connected with younger women—but once in a while something aimed in our direction would be good, and give the…

I read Albert Burneko's food stuff over on Deadspin and it's the cat's ass. Smart and hilarious, accessible to novice cooks without being patronizing.

Ultimately I think this will hold up better as political theater/protest than as a legal action anyway, but since you asked: most mainstream Protestant denominations in the US, including United Church of Christ, American Baptist, and the dominant branches of the Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, & Lutherans,…

288. Even at Candy Crush obsession I'm a slacker.

I know someone who did this, with a theme of "Nothing's Scarier than Marriage." BEST.

I'm about 15 years beyond the Window of Fuckability, but on the up side I'm old enough to remember this Bette Midler Sophie Tucker joke: "It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, "Soph,…