Noooo, don't tell me this. The Plan will work, dammit! It WILL WORK.

International Women's Day is a much bigger deal in the former Soviet Union, which does not celebrate Mother's Day as the US does. Women are given flowers or candies by their bosses, or taken out to lunch. Older men often buy bouquets and stand on the street handing out flowers to each woman who passes, until they are…

I will do it. I Will Do This Plan.

I do have this fantasy that someday I will buy a whole set of those colorful faux-velvet hangers (that keep things from slipping off like a boss) and organize the whole closet by type: Black for Formal, Green for Fun and Awesome, Blue for Woooork, Purple for Husband's Stuff, Red for Seriously You Haven't Worn This In…

I wish I was making this shit up. I wish I was.

I think we've got a Bill Gothard/Michael Pearl devotee here. I bet they "blanket train" (place infant on blanket, hit infant every time it tries to leave blanket, eventually infant will not leave blanket, so you can ignore infant and go about your business. Cribs are thus unnecessary, and also the infant "learns"…

I think we've got a Bill Gothard/Michael Pearl devotee here. I bet they "blanket train" (place infant on blanket, hit infant every time it tries to leave blanket, eventually infant will not leave blanket, so you can ignore infant and go about your business. Cribs are thus unnecessary, and also the infant "learns" to…

My feeling on #8 is that currently, nigh-all female villain characters, be they big bosses or cannon fodder, tend to be wrapped up in the sexy/evil package. We don't get to see a range of female villainy, from one who owns her sexuality and uses it as a weapon to an efficient and deadly professional who dresses in a…

There are no "poor people" in the United States of America, only temporarily embarrassed millionaires. /paraphrase of Steinbeck.

So I have RAD to blame for those fucking holly bushes planted all around my college rental house. Those fucking bushes. No gloves were thick enough to ward off the prickles on the leaves. TWO YEARS I had to clean up after those damn things, and they never once repelled an intruder.

This is a really excellent article. I've been kinda disappointed at the... fluffiness of the majority of Jezebel's content of late, and I'm really happy to see a thorough, reasoned, acerbic article on a very important topic. Please, more articles like this to balance out the concerns about Ariel Grande's (sp?)…

"This has ruined my life,"

Lots of kids mutilate their toys in disturbing ways and go on to become well-adjusted adults. In fact, some psychologists have observed that many girls go through a Barbie-mutilation phase in early puberty, and speculate all sorts of things about how girls relate to being a mature woman, and could be using Barbie as a…

South Sudan is the world's newest "official" country, having only split off from Sudan via referendum in 2011. Their government is probably too preoccupied by the incipient civil war still simmering within their borders to ratify the various UN treaties, charters, and conventions that their older peers have gotten…

I treat my household cat waay better than my husband. Cat gets fed on the regular with no expectation of contributing to the household. Husband gets fed too, but also has to put clothes away in hamper and take out garbage. Poor, poor husband. Cat sure *thinks* she's being starved to death tho.

Yeah, the (constant!) farting and the open bathroom door was standard etiquette in my relationship even prior to moving in together (well, closed door at my place, cause of roomies.) How does anyone date anyone they can't *fart* around? I fart, like, every day. I fart a *lot* in the morning. I didn't used to be so…

"I've had many friends who are homosexual,"

The last book ends with the attending tragically having to give Ana a hysterectomy after delivery because of unavoidable complications and then Child Protective Service confiscating the infant when they find out neither parent has purchased a child safety seat, right? Please tell me that's how it ends.

Of all the legal rights and privileges conferred upon me and my partner by the State of Matrimony that I weighed when making my decision to wed, "Legal Right to Do Whatever the Hell I Feel Like With His Corpse" never, ever, ever crossed my mind.

"Now son, I hope you've learned an important lesson about knife safety here today. If you were just more careful, you could avoid such self-stabbing incidents in future."