"Ladies and especially gentlemen, I did not become senator of the great state of North Carolina by washing my hands daily like some kind of liberal pussy. Personal hygiene is for communists."

I was raised in an atheist household (I'm 25 now), and I'm always surprised at how uncommon it is. I know lots of atheists, but all of them came to their atheism as teenagers or adults. I don't know anyone else with atheist parents.

I was just going to say that everyone I've met from Andover smokes a hell of a lot of pot... Amongst other things.

i have honestly never heard of a stoner bully before.

One of the things of love about Brazil is beach egalitarianism. No matter what age, weight, shape, wrinkles, stretch marks, cellulite, the ladies are just out walking around in teeny tiny suits. Totally comfortable and happy. Its lovely.

And don't you love that it only applies to women? We'd better look attractive until the exact arbitrary moment that we are no longer deemed as such, at which time we must immediately dress matronly so as to easily disappear into the backdrop and not cause anyone to have to look at us. Meanwhile, beer bellies and back…

Yes. Be that mom who dares to bring cupcakes from the grocery store instead of homemade. It takes guts. I'm not kidding.

I'm not trying to undervalue the debate here, because, yeah, it definitely sucks that moms from a certain background are supposed to make "mom" their whole identity and dads are allowed to have complex identities in addition to being dads. It's worth talking about, for sure. But it's also worth pointing out that this…