The way people talk about the romance genre upsets me so much that I just try to avoid thinking about it too much. It’s the best selling genre in the world, a huge number of smart women read these books, and people act as if it’s the dumpster fire of publishing. There is obviously a lot to unpack in this particular…

You touched on something that is super important and rarely talked about. Namely, don’t bother getting your PhD unless you’re going ivy league. That’s a shitty and cynical outlook, but it’s completely accurate. The people who manage to get those rare tenure-track jobs tend to be from Princeton, Yale, Stanford, et al. 

As that uncle, let me say there are worse fates.

I highkey really hope Mindy Kaling’s daughter’s dad is BJ Novak.

Thank you for joining me for this episode of my podcast, Things That Are None Of My Fucking Business. 

As a preschool teacher I can attest to this. So many parents send their kids in with snacks/ lunches I would devour in a second - leftover scallion pancakes, seafood pasta - and they won’t touch it. And all their parents are mystified when we tell them they wouldn’t eat it. “But she always loved it!” Yeah, well -…

luckily, her parents are wealthy enough to deal with the inevitable and inexorable switch from “I only eat one brand of macaroni and cheese” to “I only eat one brand of frozen chicken nuggets.”

“Can Beto bounce back”. No and here is why.

Hopefully they all get their little ego boost and drop out after the first debate when it becomes obvious that they don’t have a shot at the title. I’m honestly kind of annoyed at the number of people who could be running competitive house/senate/governors races but are dicking around with the presidential instead.

I’m interested to see what happens to the polls once some of the real bottom-tier candidates get enough publicity for their book and drop out. I think Beto will survive that initial round of people leaving, but I am curious what happens to him after that. I wouldn’t place my money on him being the nominee (and I liked…

“If Warren’s or Harris’s poll numbers drop significantly, and we get 10,000-word profiles in return, perhaps I’ll eat these words, but I’m not counting on it."

*screams forever*

Some personalities have fared far worse.

Lucky there were abortions for which to pay.

Sorry, I meant did you join the cult.

I met a super geeky, super shy, super HOT dude when I was 18. We hooked up after a beach party, but after we’d boned he started CRYING. Turns out, he was also super RELIGIOUS. I wasn’t just the first girl he’d had sex with, I was the first girl he kissed. We saw each other off and on all summer, thankfully with no…

After my abusive, mentally ill ex-husband left, I decided that I needed to figure out who I was. Obviously the only reasonable way to do that was to join OKC. I was COMPLETELY uninterested in actually dating people, I just wanted to see what was out there and what I would talk about other than being a mom and taking…

I thought it sounded like they go to the park a lot where they keep their shoes on and where there’s no stream, and that this isn’t a camping family. That, and she actually underestimated the degree to which kids’ imaginations can transform a showpiece, like a garden installation, into a real-life woods. They got into…

The royals seem like kind of a weird choice for this particular brand of anger, since there’s a lot of public green place in the Crown’s real estate portfolio that they could technically block off at any time. London has an extraordinarily high amount of public green space for a city of its size in part because of…

Maybe I'm a sucker, but I am fine with all of this. Is it staged? Sure. But it seems pretty harmless. And those kids are darn cute.

I, too, find it impossible to believe that the Queen “screamed” at Meghan or anyone else in the last 50 years. I don’t believe there’s much drama there at all, and if there were it would be a cold, icy stare and extremely uncomfortable silence type of drama, not a screaming type of drama. Archie is the Queen’s eighth…