The one thing I've learned after 4 kids is to never spend more than 20 bucks on a toy. The excitement always wears off within a month. But what do you expect with creatures who eat crayons and spend half their time trying to take their clothes off?

I'm not a bigot, one of my best friends is a Republican.

Amen. I was raised by liberal, open-minded people but even in the last 25 years elements of our culture and society train you to think a certain way. It would be ignorant and delusional for me to say I've never done or thought anything racist. The key is to acknowledge it, learn from it, and do better. Hopefully in a…

I'm a Washington native and a life-long relatively die hard Washington fan, and these people are the dumbest of the fucking dumbest. There is an odd, nostalgic part of me that will feel the loss of something from my childhood (when I was a kid, I thought the name had to do with the color of the football, actually),…

Thank you for sharing this. I am married to a man whose childhood was pretty much the opposite of yours: he is the naturally thin of a morbidly obese woman. But rather than make him more sensitive to issues of weight and body shape, he became obsessed with thinness. He spent his childhood hearing his mother made fun…

I'm saving a normal relationship with food as something I'll earn in my forties.

I think it's the love: the constant, steady sense that your parents love you and will take care of you. I had that from my mother, and so while she had to work two jobs during my childhood and she wasn't around as much as I would have liked, I felt secure in her love no matter what. My father, on the other hand, was a…

If there was a tumblr for these, I would never work again.

Heh...how else are they going to learn that 69 is actually evenly divisible by 2?

This film and this scene had such a tremendous impact on me. I saw it in the theater first run when I was just on the brink of a calamitous first year of college, completely paralyzed by depression, moved home and felt like a failure and thought about dropping out of school entirely. After the movie I sobbed out in…

It's 2014. Why the hell is this still an issue? Didn't we go through this crap in the 70s, when people had divorced parents? Was I so fucking revolutionary in the 80s to keep my real name upon marriage, aka my "maiden name" ? Don't women have their OWN NAMES yet? [screams, punches drywall]

For nearly 25 years, my dad was the most widely-read syndicated medical columnist in America. He received over 2,000 letters every week from men, women, and teenagers from across the country and around the world asking for advice.

There's about a thousand you could probably get to before "fajitas":

"He was employed, Jewish, in his 30s and that's pretty much ideal," Nizewitz said."

You know there's been a lot of criticism of Kinja media lately and in turn, the role of blogger like platforms like this site. But here is where it holds its own and earns my respect. I am in Australia and following this with appalled, well . . . horror and incredulousness.

The best place I am getting my news from at…

How did our police become autonomous little armies?

Yes, it's dismissive. But I also think that we're in an era of "slacktivism" where people get worked up over the terms of some company's product (often rightfully so) and automatically expect that it will be reversed to respond to the public outcry. I personally get tired of people complaining that the free service…