The Christmas my mom was in chemo, I arrived at the parental homestead, gifts in hand to find no one there to greet me. Which was scary at first, given that all I did was worry about her 24/7. Turns out she and my father were in the spare room frantically cleaning up the murder-scene-ish mess that happened after Mom…

Oh my God, I so, so sympathize. This doesn't involve any Williams-Sonoma products, but 10 years on my son is still talking about the Christmas I tried to lightly toast some pignoli nuts (for biscotti) and instead they burned and looked like rat turds and when I threw them out - rather vigorously and hastily - they…

Roughly 12 years ago my grandmother got my father and uncles each "Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushroom Logs" ... but hers were definitely of the order-from-TV variety. Clearly, WS is behind the times. Get the case and then a cheaper log on the Shopping Network!

This article is also important for guys. I live in Norway, and my (almost free of charge) doc diagnosed ureaplasma the first time around with her standard tests, after I complained about a mild discomfort down south, to the left. According to her it's very easy to pass on, not only via sex, and it can - as you mention…

As a natural hair wearer, I agree with her remarks. Now, granted, I wear my naturally 4c hair twisted into dreadlocks, and I am both a civil service AND and IT drone, so I do have a bit of latitude in my dress code. But I will say that how I got the idea for dreadlocks was watching older Black women that I worked…

"Black people were already having the conversation about how differently black people and white people are treated by cops. We didn't need this hashtag."

Yes, but racist and/or clueless white people who WEREN'T having the conversation are now being forced to. The shitty awful truth is that racists WILL NOT HEAR IT when…

A few months ago I was walking back to my car after a work-related happy hour with my co-worker who is a tall, black guy, built like a linebacker. Out of nowhere, an SF police officer stopped us, looked at me pointedly and asked "Is everything ok ma'am?"

I dunno.

Was anyone legitimately surprised to learn that white people are able to get away with damn near anything by the police?

I'm starting to think the best response to these incidents might be stuff I shouldn't type on the internet.

Terry Gross sniffs glue.

He's the fucking man. Plain and simple. No funny comments, or jokes, or anything. Andre Johnson is the fucking man.

Just because both this and the Chelsea Clinton stuff have a common theme (namely that Republicans are massive assholes) doesn't mean that they're all that similar. People can be massive assholes in various different ways.

Imma let you finish, but turkey pot pie is the best way to use thanksgiving leftovers of all time.

As a fairly new resident of a different part of Oklahoma, after 30+ years on the more progressive coasts, this protest is goddamned amazing and beautiful. These young women are standing up to a LOT, without the support structure they would be able to rely on in many other parts of this country - there just aren't a…

No, it's UVA's problem, and Phi Psi's problem, and society's problem. I've been consistent about that from the get-go, and I'll continue to stir shit up as a UVA alum and withhold donations until they do something about it. (Not that they'll miss my pittance much, but it's something I can do.)

I spent about a year and a half working with a program that was based Augusto Boal's theater of the oppressed, which teaches people different methods of dealing with oppression or abuse or discrimination in the moment. We would show a short, maybe 5 minute play in which somebody has something really terrible happen…

Pervert!

The idea of fame is terrifying to me and I don't understand why so many people hungrily go after it.

Democrats are cowards, refused to own up to their great accomplishments and ran away from the President for the past four years.