I'm multi-ethnic, married to a woman whose ethnicity is very different from mine.

Political mansplaining at its very best. Le sigh.

I am in the demographic that should find the GOP most appealing - slightly older, married, kids, grew up in an upper middle-class family, household income higher than the median, educated, regular church goer etc. And there is no way in HELL I would vote for a GOP candidate. I would rather write in Mickey Mouse than…

Yep, and choosing Palin as the VP nominee in 2008 totally won over all the females just like it was intended. Obviously... it's the only reason McCain is president.

I miss my kitty. It's been almost two weeks now.

Said it before, will say it again - it's almost as if one of the primary features of capitalism requires the existence of a massive supply of underprivileged, overexploited laborers to sustain itself.

It used to be the men, women and children of England's factory towns (and behind them, the slaves who picked the cotton…

Yeah, why was there so much murder in that tiny little town? I'm starting to think Jessica Fletcher was the one who murdered everybody so she could solve the crimes.

She really has rose colored glasses when it comes to Cabot Cove, because they way I remember it there was a whole crapload of murder going on. In fact, everywhere she went someone was being murdered.

Oh, I wouldn't pet a guide dog... I meant that if the urge to pet a training puppy is unbearable, I will ask permission. I understand that service dogs are there to work and not be distracted by grabby hands.

As someone who has a dog guide to help with my disability, please don't ask us to pet our dog while they are working (they wear a harness/jacket when on the job, so it is easy to tell). The answer is no and it sucks to be badgered about it. People approach me about it all the time (and are often very rude when i say…

Thank you! I'll admit I am a cat person, but there is something about working dogs that really garners my respect. They are still dogs and they do like to be liked. I think it's great you want to show them you like them, and I'm glad I was able to help.

SERIOUSLY. I'm a runner and have fluctuated between 208-245 since I moved into the city. Apparently white dudes think it's LULZ to make fat jokes at me (seriously guys, I'm RUNNING, what am I supposed to do? Clearly I'm working on it). I can't imagine what it's like to be a woman running, seriously, I don't want to it…

Christ, it's like a political cartoon come to life, except most of the time millionaires have their employees in Congress wield the tire iron.

Film proposal: Puppy army academy! With really cute obstacle courses with a shouty old grizzled Alsatian sergeant who turns out to have a heart after all and an emotional passing-out parade after some sort of challenge that can only be solved by risky puppy cadet teamwork!

If you want to convince everyone you wrote your own book, it seems like it'd be counterproductive to go on TV and remind everyone that you can't speak your native language.

How to make a child read a book. Tell them not to read it.

They have banned her book because they claim she is a "tool of the west" and that her book does not portray Islam positively. They immediately went for the religious and the cultural because they are afraid of her ideas. This is a good indication of how powerful this young woman's impact on the world has been and is…

Chicago-style pizza (which is NOT deep dish, meaning a huge cake-like crust) is heaven on earth. I miss Pizzeria Uno/Due! We make it at home now, because here on the Upper Left Edge, all pizza is tomato sauce on cardboard.

This reminds me of my computer illiterate mom discovering "that bubble game" on my phone.

Thin-crust, New York-style pizza is just cardboard with burnt cheese and grease ladled on top.