My son, at 11 years old, started to develop a super-thick unibrow. One day, I came home to discover he had tried to manage it himself, with a disposable razor. He shaved the middle, which looked weird, and he shaved a little bit under one eyebrow, before he realized that was a BAD idea and stopped. He looked pretty…

@Thus Spake KATE! is rude and not ginger.: my 8th grader is reading TKaM right now and I will be introducing him to this essay. thank you.

Courtney Love is only connected to Ed Norton and Kurt Cobain? Fact checkers, check your facts!!

Jesus Christ! Let me explain. Rachel has two daddies. Two gay daddies who, strangely, were not present for their baby girl's amazing Streisand moment, but I digress. We know nothing about Rachel's mommy egg donor. Now, out of the blue, comes Idina Menzel, a dead ringer for Rachel +15 years and the coach of her big…

I discovered "Operating Instructions" the book Anne wrote about having Sam as a single, broken mom, when I was an impending single, broken mom. Her sense of humor, the way she acknowledged the clusterfuck of it all with simultaneous fear and joy, it really helped me through. I am forever grateful, and love her like a…

If you look at the covers for Barack and McCain, you can see that Hillary's book was designed to be part of that series.

The pantyhose creep is in Milford, Massachusetts, aka, New England. It's mos def NOT the dog or cat though. The regularity and the number of tights, combined with the fact that they are alway left near the kids' bus stop points to a perv. The local cops have already told the moms that the best they can charge the guy…

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The reason Lorem Ipsum is the old standby is that it contains full paragraphs of greeked words that mirror actual patterns of text. Using the same sentence repeatedly will give you a false impression of how text will really look on the page and will create "rivers" of white through the paragraphs due to the repetition…