There are a surprising number of people who believe that if they didn't mean it to be racist, then it wasn't racist. "I didn't mean to wear black face in a racist way. I meant it in a funny way. Therefore, it's not racist." It seems like kind of a narcissistic way to look at the world ("the only thing that matters…

My (now) husband had a cat when we met. She was fifteen when I met them and seventeen when her thyroid condition just got out of control and he had to put her down. For a long time, we didn't particularly like each other (I'm allergic and she resented me showing up and taking up space in the bed that ought…

*assassination

Or had more than a three minute conversation with a woman other than their mom.

That GIF!

Mee-yow! *sigh* No one is spared from aging.

I know. I love that she wears what she wants, and looks great. It doesn't hurt that she always shows up with a Oh, was I supposed to give a shit what you think? attitude. I'm just twenty-or-so pounds overweight and it takes all the effort I've got to get dressed up because of how crummy I often feel about how I…

There are a lot of communities where giving a baby up for adoption, even one that you would have aborted otherwise, is seen as unforgivable. I worked with at-risk youth in rural Indiana for a while and many of the young women who became unexpectedly pregnant talked about adoption at the very beginning, but once their…

Between this ad and the really uncomfortable ads where the camera films people's mouths in closeup while they say the names of Haagen-Dazs gelato flavors like they're about to have an orgasm, I'm not really sure I'm feeling their advertising these days.

Not only that, he seems to feel (and his friends and family seem to constantly reaffirm) that any time something bad happens to Chris Brown, it's because other people are jealous/haters/malicious assholes. I can't imagine that being sent to prison will mean anything to him except that this is just another cross he…

Well, there was bound to be more than just the older girl's family's story, but I'm still skeptical.

Okay, so, everyone keeps saying that 18 year old boys date 14 year old girls all the time and nobody cares and that seems right. So we're left with the idea that someone is a homophobe here. But I'm not totally sure that it's the prosecutor or the court system. It seems like these charges only ever happen when…

A friend of mine who runs a daycare said that she prefers when the little girls her facility cares for have their ears pierced when they're under one than when they're five or six (about the age they start begging for it). She said they see fewer infections on the piercing when it's done when the kids are really,…

What exactly is the point of fan fiction if there's no gettin' it on? Are there lots of people who are dying pay money to read fan-written stories about Damon and Stefan discussing refinancing the house?

It feels like the song is in a lower key than she usually sings in and it feels like she's hitting the bottom of her range. Or maybe they did something weird to her voice digitally. IDK, but I don't think I like it.

Or, if she was doing his laundry, why didn't she just rub it on all his underwear? That seems like the easier option than waiting until he's asleep and rubbing him down with poison ivy leaves.

If you're on a reality show, you sign your life away. They seem batshit crazy enough that I'm surprised they didn't try to sue to stop it from airing anyway. Then again, they seemed to be under the impression that Ramsay was going to show up and say, "You're right, you're awesome, everyone else is too stupid to see…

Can you imagine being a producer watching the footage from the night before Ramsay arrived? If you have ever wanted to see someone rub their hands together in glee, you probably should have been there at that moment.

I worry about this a little, too. I was thinking about the fact that I buy organic and hormone free milk for Falconbaby, but it's all ultra-pasteurized and I started thinking, I wonder if that ultra-pasteurization is destroying some stuff we might like to keep.

Or when you tell someone, "No, she's still not sleeping through the night," and they look at you like you're stupid and say, "Well, just pop the binky in her mouth and she'll go right back to sleep." I always wanted to stab people when they said that to me—well, if she would take the goddamn thing, I would!!—but I…