Back in my single days there were a few instances in which a guy would say things like "God, I want to marry you!!" Or "Let's get married!!"

Seriously. Can't someone from their version of CPS handle communication with the father? It seems like a very undue burden on the mother.

Uh, he had a problem with the literal stamp of approval because he felt it would attract more women and put off more men. He had a problem with women reading his novel instead of men.

Oh no!

Me too

I generally have really liked my husband's friends and their girlfriends/wives, but I have had very strong dislike for some friends' significant others. And I have mostly gone out of my way to be nice and welcoming and friendly, because it hurts to be frozen out by your partner's best friends, especially when you're…

We are 100% on the same page about this

I'm not a member of the Beyhive, but man I am intrigued by Beyonce's relationship with Kim. Like I study pictures of the two of them, searching for any indication that Beyonce might actually like Kim. So far nothing. I was doing my makeup this morning while seriously wondering about whether or not Beyonce just…

I mean, I get that there are people who won't appreciate his writing, and they might trash his work just because they don't get it. But that's taking a really simplistic, condescending view of women, and I say women because that's who followed Oprah's book club. And for someone who's really smart, it's a shame that…

My husband, who hates all holidays except for Fourth of July, was like, "are you excited for Valentine's Day?" And I was like, "no not really, we have no money and we live in the Tundra, so we're not doing anything special." But now I'm worried that he might have something up his sleeve. Do you have a card that…

Seriously. The fucking nerve it takes to suggest that Oprah's followers (mostly women) would be turned off by his "high-art literary traditions" is just so gross. And it seemed to me to be a huge slap in the face to Oprah. Like Franzen thought her incapable of truly appreciating his work.

Thirty years old is pretty late to try to launch a modeling career.

This is definitely true. For one thing, you don't know what taxes will be in the future, so it makes sense to pay a bunch of taxes up front and not be concerned with it anymore.

You really want to take the lump sum. At minimum you want your winnings to have the same value now as they would in twenty years, or however long payouts are supposed to be doled out; this won't happen if you take the annual payments. Think about how much costs/prices for stuff have increased over the past twenty or…

I have heard of one person in my entire life who was like, "I'm not responsible enough for the lump sum, please give me the annuity". Most people take the lump sum because with minimal effort and responsibility you can get it to grow with inflation. In twenty years, the annual payout won't be worth as much, since…

This is what happened to my husband and me ten years ago! He was like, "we've only been dating for like ten days, I don't need to get her a Valentine's Day gift!" Meanwhile, I had gotten him a cute card and a small bouquet of flowers. When I realized he hadn't gotten me anything, I chucked the card and pretended I…

My name is not pear. :)

Very, very true!

Same. I have a very unusual name (it's not even a name really; it's just a word that my hippie parents decided to use as a name), and I kind of like it when people I interact with via e-mail have no idea whether I'm a man or a woman. Most of the time people think I'm a man, and those are interesting shoes to walk…

What's kind of funny about this, to me anyway, is the use of Kh-. It's a very common convention for transliteration of hard k sounds in some South Asian and Southeast Asian languages. (See: Gengis Khan, Khapra beetles, etc.)