What can you do for five minutes to prep for the crankiest part of the day? Offspring editor Michelle Woo suggests these mini-breaks . . .

Oh, you sweet, simple lamb.... This world’s going to be awfully rough on you....

Right. And as a professional influencer who gets paid to appear in photographs and videos with products, I’m sure it never, ever would have occurred to her why those photographs never appeared online, why there was no other branding or promotional paraphernalia surrounding it, why she was never paid or signed…

Wow. Clearly, someone didn’t need to fake their way onto their college’s mental gymnastics team....

“Hey, Mom, why is it so important that I put on workout gear and pose for all these photos pretending to row on this ergometer?”

I really don’t think it takes even that deep of a dive to determine whether they knew.

Well, given that you spend your weekdays combing through (and passionately responding to) comments relating to a blog post regarding the reading habits of children, it may be time for a realistic assessment of just how valuable your time actually is....?

No, I think the fallen, from left to right, are Shuri, Vision, Winter Soldier, Black Panther, Mantis, Starlord, Scarlet Witch, Nick Fury, Gamora, Spider-Man, Falcon, Dr. Strange, Drax and Groot.

Oh, I see. You’re one of those people who believes that pointing out an ambiguity, small factual error, or exception to a generalization dismantles another person’s entire point and makes their having said anything at all a huge waste of your time. The rest of us are in discussion mode, but you’re white-knuckling your…

Tokyo’s sidewalks are often crowded, especially since pedestrians share them with bikes. But bikers tend to go slowly enough, and make enough room for pedestrians, that it’s not the problem you would expect. This wouldn’t work in a place with as many delivery bikers as New York. And it’s still less pleasant than…

So, supporting characters like Wong, Valkyrie, and Shuri make it onto the poster, but Wasp doesn’t?* I get dropping non-powered characters like Maria Hill, but freakin’ Okoye’s in there, and her claim to fame is “owns a spear.”**

Middle school generally starts at grade 5 in the U.S., with students as young as 10.  If you think that the dropoff in reading enthusiasm stops being a thing on a kid’s tenth birthday and that my point is invalid to the extent it doesn’t apply exclusively to nine-year-olds, then feel free to ignore my contribution to…

All the questions and anxiety just swirl around and around, from fear of how a baby will affect everything from their sleep to their relationship, to grander fears about climate change and this big scary world.

The third was assigned reading for school. And not like reading for BOOK IT! or choosing books off a summer reading list, but “here is a list of books you have to read for the year, now read them”. Nothing turned me off quite like being forced to slog through books I didn’t want to read. If the time I had available…

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I looked up Jasper Pääkkönen on Google Images, and man, in a lot of photos, he gives off a real Michael-Biehn-as-Johnny-Ringo-in-Tombstone vibe...

It always annoys the s*** out of me to see setups with multiple clocks showing different time zones, and the minute hands point to different minutes. Other than the handful of countries in the world that work 30-minute increments into their time zones, shouldn’t all the minute hands be the same, with the only…

This was one of those comic books that was frankly embarrassing to own. The concept was really clever, but it was bogged down by crap writing and J. Scott Campbell’s cheesecake shtick. The 90s were full of artists who tried to titillate and missed the mark (e.g., Rob Liefeld), and Campbell was one of the (slightly)…

Joe Madureira: “Red Monika is... an... um... homage? Or... satire? Is that a thing?”

Want to rethink the title of the article, Meghan?