Uh, Patton Oswalt is always going to mourn his wife. Falling in love with someone else and getting married doesn’t negate the love one has for their deceased spouse. His new wife doesn’t delete Michelle McNamara, and if she’s a half-decent person, she knows that. Mazel to him and Meredith and Alice, who seem very…

they don’t actually need sad nostalgic reboot money, and she’s just doing it for the sad nostalgia

Social media has also glorified people’s ‘uniqueness’. It’s coveted to be special snowflakes and have our own personal ‘brands’.

My new area manager told me the other week that I’m considered ‘weird’ at my head office and it is 100% a bad thing. I’m SUPER successful for them - hit and exceed all my targets, low staff turnover, low maintenance, supportive of my manager colleagues, liked by my own team. I participate in everything, meet my…

“Nerd” culture too.

Weird people are absolutely still ostracized; you have to be the right kind of “weird” for it to be cool, otherwise people will still shit on you for being weird.

I can’t speak for Spicer, who is humiliated on a daily basis, but for most of them the occasional absurdity of performative sycophanting is probably palatable. Most of these people don’t have to deal with Trump on a day-to-day basis, so doing this just ensures you stay on his good side so he listens to you when you…

“Mom jeans” make sure my large butt doesn’t hang out while also accentuating my hourglass waist.

Omg, have your parents rewritten it in their heads to be normal sibling rivalry that you’ve blown out of proportion too? When I was finally old enough to have a choice in the matter I ceased having a relationship with my brother, who would still hit me for perceived disrespect even though he was in his late 20s by…

I grew up in a situation similar to yours. As I’ve gotten older and been able to provide myself distance from family, I’ve realized my sister was acting out her own response to parental abuse and her resentment of me. It makes it easier to understand her motivations. However, I do wonder how SHE views the situation…

I’ve been following this case here in the UK and actually did a bit of reading about the disease and the “experimental treatment” (I have a medical background). It’s a very sad case, and I can understand the parents being in denial, but as you say there is no possibility of cure. The mutation he has results in death…

Yeah, how does “Formerly known as School-Girl Killer” NOT set off some red flags on a background check? If that was my kids school I’d be raising bloody hell.

Christian and Catholic schools are funny like that...serial killer moms are okay, but skirts 2 inches above the knee ARE DEFINITELY AWFUL AND YOU WILL GO TO HELL.

That is a a pretty sweet story :) She sounds very down-to-earth and welcoming, especially with the making breakfast for you part.

Look, without making myself completely doxxable, I will say that this falls under my wheelhouse of expertise and as far as I can tell, the truth of the matter is that this was a truly impossible situation for Comey. “Sources and methods” may be a vague concept for most people, but the reality is that years of work and…

Justin Trudeau is not as intellectual as his father was but, to be fair, there is no one currently in Canadian politics who is.

I was being facetious, but Poe’s Law.

I love your post - thanks for writing it.

uhhh.... I’m a South Asian Muslim immigrant and Ghost World was my #1 movie in 2001...shit, I watched it a thousand times on dvd and I was obsessed with the graphic novel and the website. I graduated from high school the same year the movie came out and I hated everyone with equal passion like Enid and Becky, and my…

When will we stop objectifying male politicians?