Wow, I didn't realize how much Angelina Jolie really is the nation's action heroine actress.

It was all joking and tongue-in-cheek. It's pretty obvious that he's poking fun at some of her criteria (and at himself) at different points.

Apparently they filmed a pilot a little while ago—fingers crossed it gets picked up!

Seriously not domesticityshaming here, but how do you not know how to boil an egg? The verb and noun kind of give it away.

I think I saw egg yolk ravioli on an episode of Top Chef the other day! Tell me more. The consistency seems a little scary to me.

Do you always know exactly what you would like to eat? I tend to make the same sandwiches all the time, so I like suggestions of new ideas I should try out.

Thanks for the info, and I'm glad it worked out of you. What I think rubs me the wrong way about this topic isn't the idea that you can succeed in spite of poor schooling—I think it's great that you were able to be that focused and independently hardworking, and I think you're right that the exposure to a broad range…

Ever watched nature shows with a crowd of 12-year-olds? "That's you" has never been so alternately cutting and eye-rollingly overused. (I screened an episode of Planet Earth with my seventh-graders after a unit on endangered species. Holy shit did I get tired of the "That's [Fellow Student's Name]!" game by the end of…

Same article as from last month? Or are there nuances here I'm not picking up?

Your parents purposefully enrolled you in a struggling public school to increase your chances of getting into college? Let's be clear that I'm not discussing public schools by and large, by any measure: I went to public schools my whole life, I teach in public schools, and I know for a fact that many public schools…

God, I love Middleton's coats. But I wonder if I'd be able to wear them without feeling self-consciously prim.

One-fifth to one-third of all students are required to take remedial classes because of the poor quality of high school education. For those students required to take more than three, the graduation rate is 19%. College might not feel challenging for people who had OK high school educations, but for people who went to…

And then be one of the growing percentage of kids who get to college, are completely unprepared for the challenges, spend a whole year in remedial classes, and eventually drop out because they feel so frustrated and unsupported. Good plan.

Meanwhile, in the Bronx, they're scrambling to keep teachers in buildings with skyrocketing class sizes and inadequate counseling and social services. This bums me out so much.

Interesting point. Especially since a lot of the discussions about how fat people are perceived relates to people having empathy and putting themselves in the other person's shoes. (See: "I'm sure some fat people are fat by their own hand, without any underlying medical conditions, but a lot of other fat people are…

Ugh, dismiss that steveignorant comment before there's the inevitable pile-on of people venting their righteous hostility on someone obviously just trying to stir the pot.

This is where Dan Savage's campsite rule ("When dating someone younger than you, always leave them in better condition than you found them") needs to become more of a known norm.

I have a travel snob acquaintance who is loaded, but got a lot of her travel funded by grants and scholarship programs. She always trots out the scholarships as a reason why everyone should have traveled internationally by the time they're 22—as though (a) there aren't additional costs associated with traveling beyond…

Mind linking to the Savage controversy? I'm surprised; he ranted at a caller for using the term "tranny" on his podcast just a couple weeks ago.

I hear you, but I really don't understand why the biggest award in sports hinges, not just on one's performance in sports, but on one's moral character. Someone who's been busted for drugs can win a Grammy; someone who openly cheated on his wife can win an Oscar; someone who has been arrested for public indecency can…