Today's secret word is: Awesome!

This makes gives me new strength

The Instagram picture on the Gawker link started the waterworks for me. I've got a kid near this age—Jesus it's hard to be a teenager. Thinking of him and his brokenhearted family today.

I almost feel silly to admit just how badly this upset me to read. Fuck depression. As bad as mine got at one point, complete with suicidal ideation, I still cannot imagine the hellhole of despair it takes to go through with it.

Yup. As someone who's only recently started to do anything involving needles and cloth, I'm so impressed. She looked amazing.

As God as my witness (Viv Leigh, 1939), I miss the pre-stylist days. Demi Moore in her biker shorts was insane, but actually reflected the personal style of Demi Fucking Moore. Now, everyone dresses in whatever Rachel Zoe picks out for them.

Since she was so cruelly and pointlessly left off of the original infographic, I give you Norma Shearer accepting her 1930 Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee.

It's bothering me that this isn't chronological. My favorite part of looking at historical fashions is watching the slow/slowish progression of change...

Don't get me wrong, I love teaching my AP class (Environmental Science), but my AP darlings are a different kind of challenge than my regular biology darlings. My AP darlings take cheating to a new and creative level, have no qualms about cheating, refuse to take notes in class, resist doing their assignments until…

Story time, kiddos. I took AP US History in high school. It was taught by a football coach because, his quote, "nobody else really wanted to." We glossed over the War of 1812 because it "wasn't that important," and the Industrial Revolution because "there's new technology all the time and most of it wasn't that…

PS Jezebel should have a movie club where we can discuss these things.

"Face it, girls. I'm older and I have better insurance."

I completely intend to retain the date rape talk for when my sons are older. I just have to buy the big teddy bear.

The stuffed animal mauling was AMAZING. DO YOU LIKE THIS?? WELL GIRLS DON'T EITHER! NO MEANS NO!!!!

The layers of this show, the layers....as you say, the revelation that the whole VAL hack wasn't a Samaritan scheme at all but then Greer goes "hey, why didn't we think of this?" to buy the company is a genius touch and speaks volumes of the battle going on.

I want one.

it's almost like I want to share my own parents with this woman just so she could get in on my family jam too. My parents are sort of awesome.

Next year's cover is going to be a woman in stirrups with a speculum in. Just right up in it. If we're having this vagina conversation anyway, we might as well see an actual vagina, damnit.

Call me a repressed bitch, but I'm not okay with this picture on the cover of a sports magazine. Yes, it's in the same style as previous ones, but the details that make it different also make it more risqué. This girl's muscles and sinews are pointing downward like an arrow towards her barely covered vulva, and that…

Yeah, as someone who's been that person for people in my life I can tell you that it really hurts to then get pushed out of their lives because you're a reminder of that hard time. Whoever that was, s/he did it out of love and now it's your turn to be generous by keeping them in your life and working (maybe with…