I think it really depends on your hair type and lifestyle. I have very fine blonde hair and workout every morning (and I'm a sweaty gal). Hair past my shoulders looks stringy and sad when its down, even if I've styled the hell out of it. And since I need to shower in the mornings after I exercise, I have to dry it…

My rule (and my friends have been told this) is that if I am buying a plane ticket that is your gift. I'm really excited to see you and be a part of your day, but I am a brokeass grad student and $350 tickets from Detroit to California (or Denver or Boston or wherever) is all I can do. If they would rather have the…

Wait, she's seriously trying to get a cut of her own friggin' parish's donations? Like, really?

I would have to disagree a bit. Since the question was about middle income, not necessarily class, I think it's fair to say that middle income would probably lie within a range centered approximately on the mean or median income. The low part of his range is more than a standard deviation from the US median income…

OK, wall of text/rant time. I've been living in Germany for the last year and was home visiting my boyfriend for the month of August. I literally spent like 4 minutes staring at the Oreo section. I did this twice: once at like Kroger or Bush's and once definitely at Target while on the phone with my dad. How are there…

Thank you for writing this. I absolutely agree the end goal is equality and I don't think it's right to forsake one good (helping men and boys who are oppressed in some ways) while pursuing another good (helping women, girls, LGBTQI, racial minorities who are oppressed in different ways). All inequalities need to be…

I'm a big fan of this type of system. I have set mine up so that I spent 15 minutes every morning tidying and 15-30 minutes every evening when I get home actually cleaning something. I set timers so I know that I have cleaned at least that long. If I want to continue, I can (in the evenings) and if not I have at least…

At the very least, being required to wear heels seems like an unsafe work environment lawsuit (being required to wear shoes that can lead to serious back problems and make you unstable, potentially resulting in accidents while using dangerous tools) before even getting into the sexual harassment one. Like, I get that…

I really hope that he stays in the race because this is going to be a funding goldmine for McCaskill and she needs a serious infusion of SuperPAC money. There are enough moderate voters in MO to keep this fucktard out of the Senate, IMHO. I think you are totally right though that any other Republican that would take…

You seem like an awesome mom.

I have no such powers over my boyfriend. I can't imagine what I could offer to buy him that he would a) want and b) not just buy for himself. I'm kind of with Katie that offering affection for chores is a bad idea, so if you come up with anything let me know.

I typically wait for them to finish and then start with either "as I was saying before the interruption ..." or "gosh, I would have loved to finish my thought, but its been so long since you interrupted me that I forgot what the original topic was." I only use the latter when I actually do forget which has happened…

I actually saw something on (MS?)NBC yesterday before her final match was shown. Could have been that I was watching in Michigan though?

Its a risk that they are running, no doubt. But covering doping is a big industry as well, and to be honest the Chinese (government?) have taken over from the old Soviet Bloc in developing new ways to make doping difficult to determine in blood and urine tests. The problem with trying to estimate how many people get…

My boyfriend is a gymnast (obviously not NEARLY Olympic calibre) and I can highly recommend. So, so pretty.

a) Damnit Michigan! You are such a nice place and I have enjoyed living there, but you're really acting like a jerk lately; b) The title of this post is a bit misleading and I got slightly more worked up than was immediately necessary - I assumed this had actually passed the state senate, but it hasn't been voted on…

While I appreciate her sentiment, I think some of her statements are bullshit. "We're not in this for ego or power." Please, but anyone who gets into high level politics is in it at least in part for ego and power. To think otherwise is to be naive. I'm a feminist and am just as capable as any man of pursuing my goals…

I feel your pain. I have neighbors that moved in maybe a month ago in the building next door (another set of apartments) that have decided that 10pm is the time to START blasting their music with really heavy base that shakes my whole place. They do this Monday through Thursday nights and it doesn't end until at least…

After reading that I am back squarely in the Adam Levine camp.

Yep. I have an acquaintance from high school who had an abortion during the time I knew her and now insists that everyone who has an abortion is selfish and those babies are so precious and she would take them all in. It was all I could do to not call her hypocrisy out on Facebook when those things started appearing…