So are all the Tea Partiers going to start smoking 3 packs a day because that's what real Americans do?

Oh, I don't hang out with any Lindas right now

Oh it is hilarious to me, I mean it turns a handshake on its head. Though sometimes I am tonally deaf on replies.

My dad handed me an illustrated (!) book, sent me to my room and told me to read it and let him know if I had any questions. I was all, "Um... I think I'm good, Dad. Thanks." Meanwhile, I had TONS of questions and decided to wait until I could ask my aunt.

Seriously it could have been way worse.

So it finally happened, my twelve year old asked me if she is overweight. She has a little bit of a tummy, is in full-on puberty, and has to fight a family history of being overweight. I told her I was more concerned about always wanting sweets and wanting to avoid physical activity. She pointed out a girl on the…

Situations like this are always complicated, and every action or response has unintended consequences.
That pretty much sums up everything I've learned since high school regarding current events.

That's where my brain went, too. I'm clearly too much of a lit nerd.
I would so have been cheering those women on, even if it does perpetuate the "sex as a prize/privilege for men" trope. Stopping the violence is step one, we can deal with patriarchal attitudes once they've stopped killing each other.

Let me edit your posts Jezebel pleeeeeeeease! I'm and English professor and work for cheap!

Whoever wrote this has no musical historical reference. Sure, Katy Perry isn't going to put out a 7 minute single. Mostly because people can only take so much of the computer produced voice. But REAL musicians CAN actually write long singles that people love and beg for...or at least they could before our attention…

Non-gendered toy aisles can't come soon enough. You don't know how much of a pain it is to find these, then have to go all the way over to the other side of the store to pick up the Transformers Lube.

Available at fine re-tail-ers near you, butt not for long!

Save a horse, ride a brony.

This is why Mama June, Honey-Boo-Boo's Mom, it so be commended, eternally! She's not spending the money they get from the show, it's all going into trust accounts in each of her kids names. They live on the income they bring in normally, AND they turned down the offer of a house by the TV because big houses have big…

Please check your animal companion ownership privilege! "My" cat, indeed! Harrumph!

Or better yet, maybe he enlists the Papal seagull to dry it by flapping his wings?

Am I the only one who sort of wishes they had built that dam?

I thought this was about emergency pineapple and got really excited...I always have a can of emergency pineapple (or peaches) in my cupboard...just in case.

I was busy finding it a self-centered and insipid parents' way of making their daughter Erin be a "unique" "individual."

In an unexpected turn of events: New Pope is way better than Classic Pope.