Amy Webb has a TED talk on online dating that's definitely worth 18 minutes of your time on a Saturday night. Having a lot of messages is good, but having a clear set of rules for how you plan to filter them is the next step.

I can't believe revealing people cheating is ever bad. [...] the person being cheated on always deserves to know and have the choice to leave the relationship.

White people don't "riot", they "celebrate".

Fun story: I had to give a commencement speech in 8th grade and the coordinator lost the printout just as we were walking onstage. I took a blank piece of paper to the podium and stared at it while trying to remember as much of my speech as I could. Towards the end I blanked on everything and abruptly said "Thank…

I'm with you like 99.999%. Just maybe don't generalize the entire African continent as needing our help. There are large chunks of it that just want our tourist dollars and don't want, need, or expect more than that. "Fighting Boko Haram and Ebola" might be better substituted there.

Genuine LOL. Well played. Well fucking played indeed.

"[B]ecause there was such division among our Republican females, they pulled the bill that day. And that was extremely unfortunate. It sent the entirely wrong message."

I can't even imagine being able to pull that off like it was intentional. Props to you. I would have had to invest in an elaborate wardrobe of head scarves.

I've been waiting on my million dollar idea for a while. I...did not expect it to be this. But I'll take it!

He said I looked like a duckling.

Reading these responses, it sounds like someone needs to invent an eyebrow merkin.

OH MY GOD I AM DYING. That is totally something I would do, though. Except my mom wouldn't have needed to wait 12 hours because she would have heard the crying.

When I was 16 I discovered that you don't *need* to lather your legs to shave them. If you run a razor over your dry skin, it will remove all the hair just as effectively as if you covered everything in an inch of shaving cream. This "dry shave" technique seemed like brilliantly efficient to me, so immediately before…

I feel like this is not only a Thing, it's a deeply (though not exclusively) American Thing. Americans are bootstrappers - the idea that you can start from nothing and work yourself into a million dollars is the core of the American dream. In keeping with that, there's a sense that the best self-narrative for an…

I'm going to start ignoring the rape part entirely and focusing on incest, because seriously, why the fuck is incest in the list? I'm ignoring incest with an unwilling partner (like a dad having sex with his daughter without her consent or while she's underage) because that still boils down to rape, and considering…

I can only answer this for myself, and the answer is gonna be gross/TMI. I can generally leave a tampon in for about 4-8 hours depending on flow. Generally speaking, pulling the tampon out in the second half of that time frame, when it's "full", isn't really a problem. It just kind of slides out. However, I hate…

I think it's a mini-bar. Biden's rocking a glass of water (or vodka, who knows), and Boehner looks like he's got some sort of highball-fancy-pants-drunk-tray.

I bow to you.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. I feel the same way about this as I do watching Zac Posen pet and poke every single model during the Project Runway judgings. Yes, you design clothing, you're interested in the construction, blah de blah, but that doesn't mean you get to pluck at it while someone's boobs are in it!

So true, based on at least one sociopath I've met in real life. I'm very wary of people who instantly get that intense gleam in their eyes and start trying to know All The Things about you, with the personal questions and the compliments and the "tell me more about yourself" probing and the confession that they were…