I love this article! Seriously, number 6—I also walk around talking to myself like a crazy person. I'd like to add a couple more helpful suggestions: 1. outline 2. write someplace outside your home—at a coffee shop or library. I don't know why, but I'm way more productive at Barnes and Noble than at my home.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and sometimes he comes a little bit early.

Maybe the weight-loss industry is conspiring to convince Americans they need drugs to lose weight, instead of healthy food and physical activity. Still, I've shocked at how badly people eat, and worse, at the terrible food they feed their kids. When I worked at a preschool, parents would regularly send their…

If you think that being a middle school student is the worst time of life, try being a middle school teacher. I can't tell you how miserable I was, and how overwhelming it was just trying to get kids to stop being evil. I think we must really work hard to stop bullying, and emphasize respect and kindness.

I live in Texas, and while there certainly are a lot of conservatives here, Texas is changing pretty rapidly. What's more, I think the abortion rate in Texas is very high—the teen pregnancy rate is through the roof, and many conservatives are more than willing to seek an abortion for their daughters. There is so…

This is seriously one of the funniest endorsement videos I've seen. I've already voted for Obama (early voting is awesome), so now I'm just encouraging people I know to vote too. Joss Whedon rules!

How sad that those boys picked on an orphaned foster child. Clearly, she had a painful life before the bullying.

Maybe he thinks he can convince the Times interns to sleep with him to get to the top.

It's truly sad that Romney can actually make us appreciate GWB. By the way, unlike Romney, GWB is actually a friendly guy in person (I met him when I was playing in a string quartet for a library fundraiser), not a snobby elitist like Romney.

I taught eighth grade at an inner city school, and I saw (and experienced) nightmarish amounts of bullying and cruelty. But I don't think that all bullies are hopeless cases, or that bullying is an insurmountable problem for a school to deal with. I do NOT think that bullying is an inevitable part of growing up,…

I just like to point out there's no such thing as harmless racism. We still have Republicans in Arkansas defending slavery. When good people don't stand up and demand that the racist stop spreading their hate, it festers into this:…

Totally agree. It's rare that anyone has parents who can foot the bill for their years messing around in New York.

The Republican Party is made up of angry, racist Southern white men who desperately want everyone to go back to doing whatever they say. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2012/10/is_the_republican_party_racist_how_the_racial_attitudes_of_southern_voters_bolster_its_chances_.html

Erma and Jim lived in an affordable two bedroom house behind the SAFECO nuclear facility. Then a bizarre accident somehow genetically melded Erma's beloved cat, Princess Lovebug, with the weeds from her overgrown garden. Princess Lovebug survived with her affectionate personality intact, but the reproductive…

I think you completely misunderstand what fantasy games are about—it's creative fun that you have with good friends: http://thewiseserpent.blogspot.com/2012/07/dungeons-and-dragons-fun-and-creative.html. As for escaping the real world, every time you read a novel, watch a movie or TV show, you are escaping from the…

This might be the best parody I have ever seen. Hilarious!

So true. Admitting to being a racist to most decent people is like admitting to drowning kittens. Of course she's not going to be openly racist, even though she obviously has a problem with Obama's race.

So the football players rip through the bible-verse signs, and then presumably stomp on them as they're running out on the field? I'd think an atheist would find that hilarious!

I taught 8th grade English in an poverty-stricken urban school district. Middle school kids are so evil I used to wonder if they were possessed by the devil—and I'm an atheist. Remember that video of the boys tormenting the poor bus monitor? That was what it was like teaching those kids everyday. I hope that most…

If that's the case, than the internet only made things worse by calling so much attention to this dad's one insensitive comment, especially one that he's likely going to forget about once his younger son is able to do stuff, too.