Not only is it not "the best gun safety," it breaks the number one rule of gun safety, which is to assume that every gun is loaded and to never point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot.

That was the second thing they taught me. The first thing is always assume that every gun is loaded and never, never, never, never point a gun at anyone unless you intend to shoot them.

As someone with thin calves and size 10 feet, please let me introduce you to my friend, http://www.duoboots.com/us/?ref=us_red….

(1) I was in Richmond a few years back and someone had painted the word "vandalism" under the word "stop."

We put chain locks at the top of every door that we absolutely needed to be unopenable. They are low enough that we can reach them, but probably too high for our shortest adult friends. Fortunately, my toddler is not super interested in breaking into rooms and cabinets (she's too busy figuring out how to climb up on…

I like "Goslinka." Sort of a Alavic diminuitive.

Call the cops. Absolutely.

I live in DC. There usually aren't stairs, unless you count broken escalators. I walk up the stairs for extra exercise, and because the escalators are sssssllllllllllooooooooowwwwwwwww. Walk left, stand right. It's an easy rule to remember.

The dresses are leaving me cold, but I want so many of those coats!

At least the Catholics get this right. The death penalty is acceptable only if it is the only way to protect others from the criminal—so like, maybe in cases where someone already serving life in prison is killing guards or fellow inmates—which, in the age of the supermax prison, is pretty much never. Honestly, I…

This was basically my OB's advice: it's generally fine to continue the level and type of exercise you engaged in pre-pregnancy, with the following precautions—stay hydrated, slow down if you start to get out of breath or feel overheated, and avoid activities with a high risk of falling or other hard contact (horseback…

I dunno—I thought the CDC's Zombie Apocalypse preparedness post was pretty good. Not hilarious, but a little witty and full of good information.

I've seen 19th-century ads for tapeworms. Women swallowed them in order to lose weight and help them achieve that wan, pale, pre-Raphaelite look. Went well with the arsenic face powder.

"Riding a great white is something I doubt anyone would do."

I'm pro-hose. Bare legs just seem inappropriate in court.

Always wear a suit to court/external meetings. I usually wear a skirt suit, but that's because I like them better than pant suits. Pant suits are fine. Your skirt should not be really short and your pants should not be really tight. Excess cleavage should not be visible. I don't wear super high-heels because (1)…

Something happens that throws off their routine, whether it's that they don't normally do drop-off or something else out of the ordinary, and their brain goes into auto-pilot and tells them that everything is normal. Parents forget to drop their kid off at daycare but really think that the kid has been dropped off at…

They have. It was actually invented by scientists at NASA after a colleague left his baby in the car and the baby died. They could not get commercial funding to manufacture it. First, there were liability concerns—if the product didn't work and a kid died, the manufacturer could get sued. But second, there was no…

My dad, who was basically the opposite of stylish the whole time I knew him, was stylish in the 70s. His best outfit was a lime-green bell-bottom polyester suit with a white belt and white shoes. Yeah, the 70s were just the worst.

I have taken a jacket out of the overhead bin, help it up, and said, "Who's jacket is this?" Then I politely give it to that person. I have also taken a jacket in the overhead bin and crammed it on top of another carry-on, but I only do that if the flight attendants have already made a specific announcement that the…