No 3 year old should have to deal with pneumonia. That poor little girl. Get better, Bella.

Yeah, but drugs are bad and abuse... eh, well, the bitch probably deserved it. /NH Republican logic.

Oh, great, let's make restraining orders more of a joke than they already are. Ugh. I'm off to call my state rep.

You know, I could get on board with abstinance education if it wasn't about telling kids, "Ewww, sex bad!" but was more about empowering them to make decisions about when and whether to have sex.

She is just cute as a button. That's all I have to say.

Aimee was an adult when the show was made and it's my understanding that it was her decision not to be on the show, not an issue of parental permission.

I think January Jones is misunderstanding why people don't like Betty Draper. At the beginning, she seemed a little unstable but that was easily explainable by the fact that she seemed to have no autonomy, that society seemed set up to infantilize her everywhere she went. Most of us looking back would say that that…

Oh, yes, silly me and my lady brain forgetting that. I mistakenly brought facts to a truthiness fight.

Changes in social policy during the 1960s made it ... safer to commit crimes without suffering consequences.

Actually, both Griswold and Roe rest on the notion of the Constitutional right to privacy.

I don't get it: religious alternatives to the Girl Scouts have always existed. I was in one for about five minutes when I was a 10 year old. It quickly became apparent that I wasn't much of a joiner (also, it may have been the first indication of my ambivalence about religion). But why don't these people just have…

As someone with kind of a thing for short dudes (my husband is about half an inch shorter than I am and I'm not a tall woman), that seems like a feature not a bug.

And now I feel inadequate. My pregnant ass is parked on the couch watching Deadwood.

Both - I wish I had gotten the info when I was in high school and I am happy to have it now. Thanks! Someday, if I ever get ambitious, I'll give it a try.

If the class is being taught in such a way that it gives a range of options for how to put on makeup (so, totally minimal to full face of makeup), that seems like a handy skill. Typically, my makeup is just a moisturizer (not even a tinted one) and a little mascara, but I would love to have someone teach me how to do…

When I was about 6 months old, my dad put a little dollop of ketchup on the end of his finger and gave it to me, which apparently made me make a crazy expression that he thought was hilarious. So, he did it again. And again, until I started crying. Dads can be mean. (For the record, in all other ways, my dad is…

That image totally made me giggle until my eyes watered. Thank you for that.

If there was any indication that sex selective abortion was a widespread problem in Canada (or the United States), then I might think this was a decent idea. But the number of women aborting because of the sex of the baby here in North America is really small. So, because a small number of people may abuse the…

What is up with all the adoptive parent hate lately? It feels like it's everywhere. First it was Once Upon a Time, with it's really terrible and tone deaf discussion about adoption and fostering (seriously, I had to stop watching). Then it's Rick Santorum implying that kids are better off with bad biological…

Shopping for unbranded baby stuff is almost impossible. It's all either some Disney thing or Winny the Pooh. So far, I have been absolutely refusing to buy anything with something like that on it, but it's getting difficult.