I love love love their lemonade. Also their frozen lemonade. It’s not what you would normally think of as frozen lemonade — it’s just their lemonade mixed with their soft serve, so basically a lemonade milkshake — and it’s AMAZING.

They know. They just don’t care, in no small part because they don’t want women to have access to birth control, either. They’re just waiting until they “win” on the abortion front to start aggressively campaigning to make birth control illegal. And in the nightmare scenario that they managed to achieve that, they’d…

Someone stopped me on the street a few months back to scream at me while I was walking my dogs. She said she saw me doing “it” every day and if I didn’t stop she’d call the police. Baffled, I asked her what “it” was, and she screamed “STOP IT!” and drove away.

More, from the WaPo article:

When I have the luxury of reviewing draft copy, I use Word. But frequently I don’t see things until they’ve already been laid out in a design program, which means I’m editing on hard copy or making comments on a PDF, and the designer is manually inputting my changes.

Unless your diet eliminates all food that doesn’t include meat and animal products — and since you say you eat spinach and potatoes, clearly it doesn’t — your hosts would be accommodating you just fine as long as they served spinach and potatoes. They wouldn’t be accommodating you if they didn’t serve anything you…

When Brock Turner was sentenced, there were a lot of comparisons made in social media to the Corey Batey case. Batey, a black college student in Tennessee, got 15 years for his first offense (participating in the gang rape of — and then urinating on — a female classmate*). But the interesting thing there is that the…

Hollywood Reporter had a great — and horrifying — article about this a few years ago. It doesn’t seem to be online anymore, but Wayback Machine has a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20170501064609/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com:80/feature/index.html

I don’t know if it’s the worst, but it’s had me seething for the last few days.

I don’t know if this counts as advice, but my (evangelical) mother’s insistence, starting long before puberty, that I had to be ever-vigilant because men would constantly be trying to have sex with me fucked with my head a whole lot.

Not even “a woman” — a whole lot of these men feel entitled to a young, beautiful, thin woman, even when they don’t have any of those qualities themselves. They rail about female selfishness and shallowness because the women they want to have sex don’t freely and automatically offer up their vaginas, while at the same…

I’ve always really liked milk (I’m another one of those creepy adults who will drink a whole glass), but I was surprised to find how much I enjoy almond milk, particularly in coffee and espresso drinks. Curious to try oat milk, particularly because oats are a lot cheaper than almonds.

On the whole, I think they taste better, too (though obviously there are some duds). I can’t think of any “normal” frozen meals I’m really wild about, but I love love love TJ’s paneer tikka masala and sweet potato gnocchi, among others. It also has much wider range of vegetarian frozen options than most grocery…

Well, crap. Do you just use a clog remover after you use it?

Well, crap. Do you just use a clog remover after you use it?

I embarrassed myself terribly my freshman year of college when I distinguished myself from someone who had been raised Catholic by explaining that I had been raised “Christian.” I wasn’t remotely Evangelical at that point, having “lost my faith” in middle school, but I’d always been taught that Catholics weren’t…

I’m curious to try this, but I remember reading somewhere that it clogs drains. Can anyone confirm/deny?

I’m curious to try this, but I remember reading somewhere that it clogs drains. Can anyone confirm/deny?

It’s interesting how many people don’t understand how much editing is done on hard copy and in PDFs created from design programs. I love editing in Word, because search and replace and the track changes function make my job much easier, but I don’t have the luxury of seeing things in draft all that often.

I’m fond of this exchange from the CMOS FAQ:

If you’re not following a style that has a rule on the subject, it doesn’t really matter as long as it’s consistent (though as the comments here illustrate, a lot of people feel very passionately that one is RIGHT and the other is WRONG, and harshly judge anyone who disagrees).

If your goal is to weed out anyone familiar with AP or Chicago style, that’s a great way to do it!