I am a lover and paid subscriber of Spotify since they came stateside in 2011, and while their decision is a Pandora’s Box of sorts, I am happy it is at least goading R. Kelly into doing or saying something stupid that will eventually get him locked up. Justice against these awful men is often years in the making, and…

I went to a funeral for a family friend yesterday, and while talking to my parents and several other family friends, we somehow got onto the topic of daycare. (I think someone asked if my husband and I were thinking about having another kid, and I said we couldn’t afford it.) When I told them how much we pay for day…

His name is Beef.

His name is Beef.

Natural miscarriage would be the #1 thought if the fetus had been buried. The fact it was flushed indicates something else is a more likely situation.

Well, we’ve been domesticating cats and dogs for approximately 10,000 years (figure 500-1000 generations). The fox domestication process was started in 1959 (about ten generations) and was primarily concerned with habituating foxes to humans rather than in controlling destructive behaviors. I wouldn’t put much stock…

Similar story: when my ex and I lost our daughter, one of her students (she was teaching middle school) said “I heard your daughter died. That sucks.” It was so honest and true and better than the bullshit “Everything happens for a reason” and “God must have needed an angel” crap we got from so many others (note: if…

It is true.

Best condolence I received was from a 14 year old boy. I was chaperoning a youth trip when I got a phone call that a coworker/my cubemate had died (Cancer. It was expected but not that soon.). Word slowly got around to the kids and, predictably, most of them had no idea what to do and sorta avoided me...except for…

“I’m very sorry for your loss - you and your family are in my heart. Can I bring you dinner or run some errands for you?”

Pretty much:

These guys aren’t just complaining that no one was checking for them, though. They are specifically saying that Black girls weren’t interested when they were teens, therefore they must date non-Black women for the rest of their lives as a result, lol. You know those one-dimensional Black girls, the ones that only date…

I live a 10 minute walk from this location. Technically, portable charcoal grills are not allowed anywhere around the lake (there are stationary charcoal grills at some locations, and other locations that allow you to bring a non-charcoal grill measuring less than 27" across). They are next to Lakeshore Ave on the…

PLUS

OMG

Very.

If you haven’t seen this disturbing comment on the Splinter article, well, here’s another thing to further ruin your morning.

I love this alternate reality people live in where employees are taking time out of their schedule to carefully craft playlists for their job, and then not just tuning out whatever is on.

Your rationale and methodology are sound, save for one exception: the complete prioritization of suction over crunch. Crunchiness is too wondrous a sensation to completely dispense with. As such, of the particularly crunchy candies, I prefer to alternate chewing and sucking portions of them. The Kit-kat is especially…

Jolly Ranchers

Suck them down to the thinnest sliver, then stand the remaining shard vertically between your molars and slowly bite down to bend them into more texturally complex curves. The mark of a pro-level Jolly Rancher connoisseur is the ability to bend this shard until both ends touch.