It's even more insidious than that. There is such a stigma attached to asking for the help that is available that some people would rather go hungry (and their children, too) than reach out for assistance because they are ashamed and feel like they should "pulling their own weight" by their bootstraps like real…

Youse guys are pikers. My kitchen disaster was melting some candles to make the surface of my devil sticks (google it if you need to) tackier when I was 15 years old, and noticing the vapor rising from the pot, and remembering hearing that it’s the wax vapor, not the wick, that burns when you light a candle, and, in…

My naive 18-year-old self wasn't the best at separating a guys interest in dating me with his interest in sleeping with me. I was also a virgin, or at least I was until I started hanging out with my manager from work. Since he was my manager, our hooking up was hush, hush.

YAY!!!!

Waking up to this headline is the best feeling. Go Malala!

Let me see if I understand this. This writer is ostensibly trying to present her positively, yet describes her as "earnest as quinoa?" I get that the writer is probably trying to be clever, but "earnest as quinoa?" Earnest as quinoa. That phrase is going to rattle around in my brain for at least the next for…

Your Just Another Criticizing Zombie Citizen.

I dunno if it's really correct to say it was "hacked" since that's a thing Wikipedia lets anyone do, for the most part (and Wikipedia vandalism is super common as a result, although it usually gets fixed quick for the same reason). It's not like anyone had to circumvent protections in place by taking advantage of…

There seems to be an entire subset of the human race who are so egotistical that they attribute all of their problems to the fact that they're too physically attractive. If they got Ebola they would take it as a sign that the virus had somehow evolved a sense of aesthetic appreciation and when scientists didn't take…

Holy shit, she's 33 years old?! Wow. She doesn't look a day over 2. Good for her.

Seriously. Look at her outfit (bedazzled denim on denim). Look at their house.

And I'm tired of rich people (minority) running this country too.

Yes it does, more often than you think. Reinforcing attention-getting behaviour = more such behaviour.

The French (as a culture) are very good at this. Their kids are (comparatively) nifty wee company with adults...(little whining; no tantrums).

It's quite important for the foster dog owner to realize that by petting the dog and giving him treats when he's misbehaving, the dog's undesirable behavior is being strongly reinforced and rewarded.

One of my pet peeves of meeting a girl from tinder or okcupid is when we meet and first hug, she'll always say something like 'It's so great to meet you' and I'll be like 'QUIET! Now people are going to know we met from the internet ahhhhh'

Yup. Forget the adorably, fully-stocked antique kitchen I found at a thrift store. No, my kid is busy with a week-old balloon animal that basically looks like a large pink condom at this point.

I'm against victim blaming...