Or the fact that my cat will lie on any sheet of paper placed on the floor that I'm doing something with. Or that she likes to be inside of my hula hoops.

I'm from his CT hood so a few people I know have met him (why not meeeeeee!?) and it seems he was totally awesome and sweet. My friend's mother was one of his hospital nurses (probably around 2000 also) and he sent her flowers after he was discharged. Totes would have pressed and framed flowers from Paul Newman.

met Nelson Mandela a month before he passed away

Choose your friends carefully! I have ended friendships with people I otherwise like because they won't vaccinate their kids. When they come to play with my son, with a daughter coughing up some Typhoid-Mary shit, I said no way. Maybe that makes me the asshole, but I can live with that.

To steal a quote from Jezebel I saw last night, if I can't send my kid anywhere with a PB&J sandwich for public health reasons, I shouldn't be allowed to send them anywhere without an MMRV.

Very wise. Don't get me wrong, I'm the furthest thing from anti-gun, since I'm an Air Force veteran who teaches other women to use firearms (free of charge since I believe it's a skill every woman should have, so we don't have to depend upon men to protect us).

I always do it too. It's like I can't look away.

Reading this gives me all the more respect for Kate Middleton, and makes me want to jail break Princess Charlene from Monaco.

My (very southern) mother used that same threat! "I will snatch you bald-headed if you come into this dining room again. Get back to the kids' table and stop pestering the grownups!"

I think it's a franchise operation with businesses operating nationwide.

Probably cause he knew she'd pull some master-class-level of mom-guilt like she did with the whole "I vote Democrat because of my autistic grandson." Drop the fucking mic!

This is an interesting thought, especially because I've determined that the only way it makes sense that my employer stays in business is that our stated mission is a sham They must be partnered with the local research university and are running a complex series of psychological experiments on us in order to gauge…

Don't all parents use their children as experiments? It makes you think. Moreover, if you happen to have siblings, which one represented the control group?

This boy will be the chosen one!

the thing that blows me away here is when brown traces it back to "you throw like a girl". As a female athlete through my college years, this is stunning. I always traced the garbage back to when I started playing women-centered sports, but now I realize it went back much further, to every man surprised I could throw…

Literally made me throw up foam, tastes like pennies/99% pure alcohol/getting kicked in the balls, and is in a bottle far too big for that ABV; went right down the drain. "Getting hit by a car" ranks better.

Later this week I'm writing about the Sierra red IPA, Flipside. I actually didn't love it, but I agree that there are some good fall styles that get overlooked due to pumpkin mania.

Crush level: Knope.

You don't see that kind of real talk in kid's movies now. Yet another reason why this movie is awesome.

"Are you thinking I'm going to lose this bet? You're thinking about me. I win." *takes $20 bucks*