This happened on Halloween night 6 years ago. I had been out partying with my friends for hours, so needless to say I was very drunk, and very tired of being in my makeup and heels. I was a student back then, and had no money to take a cab, so I left the bar and ran to catch the last subway (just before 2am). There…

Would a ‘major’ news network reporter refer to Mitch McConnell as “Moscow Mitch” to his face, in an interview, and keep their job?

Yes, that’s on me! They did test a variety of other masks, and found they were generally more effective at blocking aerosols, though not perfect. Have now updated blog to clarify

Yeah, this isn’t “What if superheroes were actually bad”; this is “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely; Super powered people would be corrupt by default, and this is our interpretation of what a ‘real’ Superhero would look like”.

PLEASE include either the National Suicide Prevention Hotline or some other relevant resource when posting articles that discuss suicide or self harm. It is genuinely not that hard. It seems that Jezebel has fully committed to not including this information on recent articles addressing suicide.

Thanks for your question—you make a good point, and I should have elaborated. Good journalists write about people with disabilities the same way they write about anybody else: by writing ABOUT them. For example, “Benjatrix is 36 years old and lives with his parents. He enjoys watching TV and playing with his dog.…

The thing is, there are so many different types of parents raising kids who have ASD, and the ones who aren’t crazy don’t get any press. This woman is not some sort of sympathetic face for how hard it is to raise kids with disabilities, she is an outlier who weighed the risks against the benefits and made a poor…

I associate aprons with burying family members, but in a good way. I enjoy cooking and baking, but at home, I rarely ever wear an apron. I’m trying to think of times I wear an apron at home and I’m coming up with zilch. When a family member passes, the men dig the grave with hand tools, and the women feed the…

What about the people who authorized this raid? The man they wanted was already in custody.  How many people signed off on this? Every single one should be fired, and while I'd love to see charges, I'm not sure if there are specific charges prosecutors could bring. This is a complicated situation because a lot more…

I feel for George, in two senses. One, since the last book has come out, the series has transmogrified from a well-respected work within the fantasy genre, with three books that have passed into classic territory in the field followed by two books that are . . . contested by the fandom (full disclosure: I think AFFC…

When I was 12, I was diagnosed with depression. It came as the result of years of bullying by fellow classmates, and my inability to process their cruelty correctly. After weeks with a child psychologist, I was sent to a psychiatrist to begin my medical treatment. Let me preface this by saying that I was an innocent,…

I too climbed for many years, primarily bouldering, but a little sport and trad here and there. I lost one of my closest friends because he messed up his rigging. He took a fall on a diagonal section of a trad climb and slammed his shoulder into the wall hard enough that he was in serious pain and couldn’t continue.…

This was an unfortunate pair of article titles to be posted back to back. Also, RIP

I have to disagree. From all the descriptions, they’ve already deviated significantly from the spirit of the books and just turned him in to Generic Gifted White Boy Looking for -insert family member here- ™. Part of what set the books apart was that he began as an anti-hero and still hadn’t completely come around by…

“Not Gonna Like It”.....?

The mask battle is lost. I was out yesterday for groceries and hardware store necessities, and the only people in masks were store personnel and a handful of customers (typically older or obvious health care workers).

No one seems to have authority over the police forces anymore. It seems like we’re dealing with a rogue army, backed by laws to protect them, who’s union embraced the white supremacist rhetoric of the current occupant of the white house.

One could argue it’s a mob. A terrorist cell.

Oh man, I’d like to see that pic! Contouring is some serious magic! My husband wanted me to show a side by side to truly show how crazy she went with all of the contouring. Its like two totally different people.

You know, I was so glad to have the quarantine.

Dune was published as a serial in Analog before it was a novel, so that’s probably why so much of the basic plot is laid out in the first twenty pages or so. The readers had to be hooked in.