I work with my mother. We own a company together. We teach courses together, we go to conferences together, we travel together. We are both feminists. And I see this all the time - the generational divide. I wear skirts, get my nails done, care about how I look, have long hair, and can be very feminine. My mom scoffs…

Shoutout to Rosa DeLauro! She’s my congresswoman and she’s awesome! I’ve met her a few times, her office is helping my fiance out on getting his visa (he actually named his cat after her because of it), and she kicks serious ass when it comes to women’s issues. She’s the best! She also wears the best shoes - the…

My fiance and I have the most ridiculous, vaguely unbelievable meet-cute, and I have to admit, I love telling people about it. But that’s because I like telling stories and it sounds like a story someone would make up. And if I hadn’t lived it, I would be sure that I was making it up. But I also had some amazing…

Yup. Her being a woman is all that is needed to get women’s support. Remember how well that worked when the Republicans drafted Sarah Palin?

Good luck Kara. Stay strong. Were you able to sneak a flask in with you? Probably not. Well, the rest of us will have to drink double for you tonight! I regret that I have but one liver to sacrifice!

Which defeats her argument that this is about her religious beliefs. She is trying to prevent her deputies from following their religious beliefs that signing these marriage certificates is right. Which means that she’s trying to impose her religious beliefs on her subordinates, who do not share her religious beliefs.…

As a small business owner who provides our employees a living wage, fully-paid health insurance, vacation time, sick time, retirement benefits, and paid holidays, this point cannot be made often enough! If we have a bad year - the owners take a pay cut. That has never happened, but we will cut our salaries before we…

Two things - first, Citric Acid wouldn’t cause this unless they are using huge amounts. It’s a very common preservative used in all kinds of products, and in diluted form is innocuous. If it were the citric acid, other companies that use it would be having the same problem, unless Mentality is using significantly…

I’m waiting for someone to Pinkham’s Law the wine story, since I feel like there has to be some crazy bullshit (sorry, pool shift) reason for why it really is important to not let the wine bottle touch the glass, but I haven’t seen it. Anyone have any ideas? I mean, I drink a lot of wine and have traveled to many…

So I’m going to seem cheesy, but since no one will read this, I’ll let it go.

So I’m going to put this out there, because I hadn’t heard about lemon water increasing your metabolism, but according to the site linked, water increases your metabolism. Not specifically lemon water. I guess the lemon part is for the vitamins? Oh, and the old “electrolytes” canard. But really, there is enough bunk…

I wish there were a way to reply to everyone without having to do it individually, because my reaction to everyone’s replies is “WOW.” Obviously I’ve never been married, and my current plan is to marry someone who will be in the US on a fiance visa which will give us a 3 month window. No point in planning if we have…

Okay, I couldn’t even read the article. Sorry! But the first paragraph killed me. “One year left mark?” You start planning a wedding more than a year before? WHAT?!

So Republicans are all about the free market and using market forces for change (if you don’t like it, use the power of the purse to change a company’s policies) except when they see people trying to use the free market to force companies to not descriminate. Then, we have to have laws to protect those companies and…

Yup. Because we all remember the brave suffragettes, and abolitionists, and civil rights leaders marching up to the places where those that disagreed with them lived, worked, and worshiped and killing them in the name of the movement. Yup. The Right-to-Life movement is exactly the same as those other movements.…

Doesn’t Jezebel (and all Gawker sites) have an indicator for sponsered content?

Having recently visited and having friends there - you can get away with anything (including drinking and wearing whatever you please) if you are obviously a tourist. The only people at risk are the women who live there (and only in certain cities because the more cosmopolitan ones have more liberal people.)

He is going to have to stay in school for another year before he can graduate. I’m hoping he’ll get a job in between sessions, which will help. And then he’ll be in school, but he was in school before and that didn’t seem like a strong enough tie. We hadn’t even bought the tickets yet since I was worried he wouldn’t…

I was doubtful at first as well, but I found out his story is true about the tourist visa because I had my congresscritter’s office contact them (to support the visa) and that was the response I got back. So, I have it from the consolate, not just from him. Because it seemed really doubtful to me as well. But he…

It’s apparently very hard for people in Morocco to get tourist visas. He’s still in school (so no job) and doesn’t have a lot of money, so they feel that his ties to Morocco aren’t strong enough to ensure that he will return. I’m hoping the lawyer can give us some advice, and after he finishes his studies for the…