I will post this on every article about domestic violence from here until the end of time. If you are experiencing abuse, it is not your fault. If someone you care about is being abused, you cannot fix it for them, but you can be a support and decrease the isolation they are experiencing. From loveisrespect.org:

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. What's interesting is that you can see exactly when the camera was invented, freeing painters from their commissions to do realistic portraiture.

The only way this story would have been better is if you had "scratched the back of your head" with your middle finger all the way to business class ;)

He was the type of business traveler who's prone to shouting "do you know who I am? I HAVE A PLATINUM CARD!"

I traveled with my grandmother quite a bit as a child. This was a woman who emigrated from Denmark to the US because it was too liberal. Here are some of the amazing adventures my tactless, racist grandmother got us into:

INSANE BAD: I went to college far from home, so it required quite a bit of air travel. Once while trying to get back to college from winter break, my flight was cancelled at one of my layover stops. Shit happens, whatever. But it was in the mid-morning, so not the worst. I hunkered down at my new gate, which was in…

I was visiting Rome and taking a bus with some friends when we started talking to a nun who couldn't have been older than 25. She was from Seattle, and had just gotten to Rome a few months before, so she was still acclimating, but knew her shit. We get to a stop, and a man snatches her backpack and tries to run off of…

A few years back I was at a bus stop and there was a guy standing next to me with his binder sitting on the bench. He reached into his pocket and grabbed a bunch of balled-up receipts and made eye contact with me while he threw them on the ground. I bent down, picked them up, and said "hey, you dropped these" while…

Ugh, I hate that kind of pandering. All women/people are not beautiful. Are conventional norms absurdly narrow? Yes. That doesn't mean that we're all beautiful. Which is good, 'cause there are a hundred other attributes that need their time in the sun.

That comment about Blue Ivy was stupid and mean, but making fun of kids is wonderful when it's done right. There are rules though:

My husband does this all the time. The other night he went to bed early and I came to bed about 2 hours later and when I was getting in bed he half-woke-up and said "BIG BOOBIES."

So I would like to throw out a question here. I am a bit taken aback by the response to Ms. Vergara here on Jezebel. After wading through many discussions where the notion of "sex positive feminism" appears it strikes me as rather strange that the predominant narrative on her own participation in this spectacle has…

Ambition doth make fools of us all.

What's wrong with bein' sexy?

That's what I thought, too! I feel sorry for them, but seriously, just get a dog or something. You can dress it up in little outfits and call it your baby and people will still judge you but not nearly as much as they will if you keep carrying a doll around with you and pretending it's real.

I'm not condoning her behavior, but I've seen some people do pretty weird things to pitch their crap. I used to work reception at a TV production company and was constantly turning away solicitors at the front door via the intercom (the door had a lock that I controlled from the desk). One day this woman ran up to…

Is it weird that, as a Californian, I'm almost just as bothered by that green lawn behind her? Save your water, people. If you still want a nice yard, rock gardens can look very polished. My mom has a very nice yard with a lot of heathers and other hearty plants. Saves money in the long run, too.

When even the drunks know you're wrong, you're, well, wrong.

Their hearts were in the right place, if not their fists.

Remind me to never get cross with the girl in the second clip who kept her feet. She ran away to protect herself until her opponent incapacitated herself, then she came back for the kill. Her blood was cold before that water hit her.