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You guys may or may not remember, but Redbeard broke his collarbone last year when someone opened a car door into him while he was on his bike. We were really lucky he was conscious when it happened and called me or I would have had no way of knowing what happened for hours, and honestly I would have been a complete…
Holiday Decorations Selfie Thread
I love Christmas. My family is small and Christmas is all about food and spending time together, calling the international half of our clan. Laughing at each other. I even love Christmas music (and just discovered that Redbeard does not, which makes me sad).
The Best Christmas Album of All Time. Period.

So you think you know the best Christmas album of all time? No, you don't. Gonna try to convince me that Edge of Christmas is the ultimate in holiday listening? Sit down and let me tell you why you're so far past wrong you can't even seen right anymore.
How to Take a Compliment Like a Woman

They've arrived. The holidays. If you're extremely lucky, you will manage to get through the next six weeks without encountering a handsy distant relative, a drunk uncle who will stain something you really like with some food-based substance, or fighting about all the things that Obama has done/failed to…
Framing Bisexuality as a Lie

I was behind on my TV watching this weekend. I got sucked into gaping maw of Gilmore Girls on Netflix and chased it with some Parenthood binging so, despite being laid up with the flu for an entire week this month I had a bunch of shows to catch up on. Because it's Halloween season, I spent most of my time in front of…
PSA: That Oatmeal Comic You Like is Racist
I'm probably gonna bump this a bunch of times today because last year I saw the Oatmeal comic about sixty billion times by the end of the day, but please read this. Yes, it's a little self serving but Bartolome was a racist asshole and Matthew Inman is too. Please stop sharing it.
Ten Not-Shitty Alternatives for Columbus Day

Every year around Columbus Day I feel a great disturbance, as if a million history majors have cried out in terror as they try to decide if it's worth it to explain why the day is racist to friends and relatives on Facebook. And for the past two years the Oatmeal comic extolling the virtues of Bartolomé de las Casas…
Statistics!

From the always clever PhD comics.
I invented a word, let's all use it!
Today was one of those words that language failed me, so I decided to fix it.
How to be insufferable, language-style:
There is, in fact, an English word for schadenfreude. It's epicaricacy and much like the double space and the oxford comma, it's a contested part of our language.






