I like to think of myself as an anti-racist white person who is reasonably thoughtful and aware of issues around racial justice and these images have still brought it home to me on a really emotional level that each one of these people could be targeted by the police just the same way any of the less-familiar faces…

Well, I am. But I do know there's another Milo Minderbender (with a space) around these parts. I'm not much of a poster on deadspin so I'm probably not the Milo you're looking for (though that one could also be a woman...) :)

I'm a little over three weeks in and now the cramps are finally mostly gone and the bleeding is down to just a little spotting. Just take it easy and give it some more time!

The incredibly hot (and proportionally dim) cop who, in response to a story about a friend of mine who is a high school chemistry teacher, said "chemistry is gay." This man was in his late 20s. There were so many things wrong with that, I didn't respond at all but I never spoke to him again. I couldn't kiss a mouth…

(1) Coming to visit for the weekend and insisting that we go to the beach to fly your fucking kite.

I can respect that though. It's intellectually sound - if a bit extreme. It's not that he doesn't believe in vaccinations (it sounds like he knows how they work and agrees that the science is accurate), he just doesn't think they're overall a good thing. That's something I could agree to disagree about (with the…

I let him have an imaginary girlfriend called Moonbeam. She has dreadlocks and smells like patchouli. I once asked where she's from and he stammered and finally decided on"um, ... the moon."

My (not-white, not-be'dreadlocked) boyfriend has a total thing for white girls with dreads. I consider myself pretty open-minded for not breaking up with him when he confessed.

Why not just come out and say exactly this? "Hey, I want to talk to you about something - it isn't so much about this specific incident but it's been bothering me and after thinking about it, I realize that it's because privacy is important to me. Both my own and yours. I don't have anything to hide from you but I…

Amen. Not everything in your head needs to come out of your mouth.

That's my only reason to vote against it. My coffee is undrinkable for the first 6 hours in that thing!

That's my only reason to vote against it. My coffee is undrinkable for the first 6 hours in that thing!

It was my understanding that people aren't allowed down in there when the accelerator is active: you'd get a lethal dose of radiation in about 10 minutes.

I really thought that was kinda the point of a destination wedding. Is this not common knowledge?

It's expensive but I'm 100% sold on the Chanel SPF 50 (not the whitening one - even though they'll tell you that it's for 'brightening', it's got an opaqueness to it that isn't even flattering on light skin.) It's a nice formulation that doesn't irritate my very sensitive skin and I've found that it's super effective…

Do you wear daily sunscreen? My dermatologist told me that hyperpigmentation is nearly always sun damage - just accelerated or exacerbated by some other treatment or condition. Sunscreen every day should help to even out your skin tone over time (even if you're dark).

In the space of a year (last year, to be exact), I went to three NKOTB concerts. The first one was incredible - everything my 13 year-old self would have wished for if she could have afforded floor seats. It was like a bachelorette party where everyone (including the performers) are in on the joke. The second was a…

I'd be fine with it if we were eating Indian food or, like, fixing a computer or something. You know - when there's a reason to be Indian. But not while we're doing regular stuff.

Definitely. My boyfriend is Indian and he's soooooo stubborn about it! Dude, there is actually no reason for you to be Indian right now when we're trying to eat pizza here like normal people. It drives me crazy and I don't know why he won't just cut it out.

A TRO for domestic violence is identical in almost every way to any other TRO - like one to stop your neighbor from cutting down a tree that provides shade to your home or to stop the sale of a work of art that is believed to be stolen. It begins with a civil lawsuit, filed in state court, and the requested relief is…

There is a public interest in all court files (except for the most sensitive) being open to the public. It's an important dimension of an accountable judicial system. People file frivolous lawsuits every day and they're all part of the public record; that's how our civil courts work (and TROs are civil, not…