This story only starts out like a horror story. It was horrible for me at the time. My boyfriend and I were celebrating our first Thanksgiving together. It was also just a couple years since my Mom died, a loss which had blasted a huge hole in our family. We scattered after that and had Thanksgivings either alone or…

My brother in law once smugly explained to me that single cell organisms evolving into modern man was as statistically likely as a hurricane going through a junk yard and randomly assembling a fighter jet.

You actually do neither of those things. Just call home and tell the parent she can’t wear the shirt again. Sending her home causes her to miss class time (and is essentially a suspension) and giving her a loaner can be humiliating, when the child actually did nothing wrong. This is an adult issue.

That is stupidly specific. Come on, wearing the wrong shade of green shouldn’t get you a suspension. You either send the kid home or give her a loaner shirt for the day.

Microsoft did a nice thing:

Sure. There are dozens of things to sue the Sperm Bank for that don’t involve telling you daughter that her skin color is making your life hell.

I can only hope this racist bitch doesn’t make her child feel less than for having *gasp* BROWN SKIN!!!!

Holy shit I had never seen that before and now I want to kill every single one of them.

Pinkham’s law.

Dude, the “no grill lines on grilled food cooked on a grill” assholes should just fucking suck it up and actually order what they want. That being: “Please, is it possible for the chef to pan fry the normally grilled blahblah? My kid won’t eat things with marks of any kind, but he loves your marinade.”

One is the child; the other is that birth mother who often will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think through what happened — with the baby, with her.

Fuck. Fuck Fuck fuck. So we have non-violent drug offenders serving 25 years in prison but child molesters, child rapists, and those who facilitate the abuse and sexual exploitation of children get a slap on the wrist and told to behave from now. Seriously! We cry about ISIS and ebola which kill so few Americans it’s…

15. Get it yourself

A close friend of mine had two of her infant children die, leaving her with just her eldest child. You should never grill a person as to why they only have one child.

Yeah, but you can actually afford to go on family vacation if you only have one kid.

The response I have formulated after 9+ years of being asked when we are going to “give” our daughter a sibling: “After three miscarriages it became apparent that my uterus is for decorative purposes only. But thanks for reminding me about the most painful and heart-wrenching experience I’ve ever had while also…

Of the people who I know well enough to know the whole story, half have only children on purpose and the other half had miscarriages or couldn’t get pregnant with another. Considering how many pregnancies end in miscarriage, you should never grill someone about their choice to have a certain number of children. It’s…

And turnips. Don’t get me started on turnips.

This weekend an unvaccinated six year old boy was the first person to die of diptheria in 28 years in Spain. His parents rejected getting him vaccinated and now he’s dead. A vaccinated child is much better then a dead one.

Due to a horrid birch pollen allergy I’m allergic to almonds and everything in the rosacea family (stone fruit, strawberries and apples.) Now my allergy is not likely to kill me but it’s serious enough to ruin my evening.