the only Cinderella for me:

It's really annoying. I always shoot back that my parents have only gotten more liberal as they've gotten older — and they started out as moderate Democrats. Like, it really has no basis in reality, it's just a way to dismiss someone's beliefs so that you don't have to logically engage with them ('cause that's too…

One thing I've noticed a lot from that side is their seeming utter inability to see the world through the perspective of someone else. That kind of truly annoying statement comes from their mindset that they personally hate taxes and regulation, and thus they assume everyone else does as well deep down, and that other…

"You're a conservative, and you just don't know it yet,"

It would be nice if that were true, but it's just not. Hair in many cultures is symbolic and carries significance and in America, black women's hair in particular comes with a lot of cultural weight. Reinforcing stereotypes like Giuliana Rancic did should be called out and I'm glad Zendaya did it in such a gracious…

*sigh* It's not just about her hair.

I'm having trouble concentrating on reading at the moment due to the deafening screams of a thousand man babies droning on and on about their juvenile understanding of "freedom of information."

FINE I GUESS IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE ANSWER

Oh I also forgot:

My mother. Who took the opportunity during her toast to give my bride my bronzed baby shoes, saying "This is all I have left to give to you of my Gregory. The rest you've already taken for yourself"

My MIL for sure.

My aunt is very much a free-spirit. She is also very much a fan of white wine. These two factors collided during her son's wedding, when she stripped down and went streaking back and forth across the massive picture windows of the wedding reception venue. Then she ran into the water to "cleanse the blessed union" and…

Who screwed up my wedding? Writer/Director David Mamet (young folks may know him as Zosia Mamet's father). He was filming a movie in my hometown the day of our wedding.

I wouldn't say it was 'royally screwed up' but we did have a bit of fisticuffs. Our venue is on a private school's campus. It used to be the convent and is now the library for the school in one part and a reception/wedding venue in another with the nuns living on the 3rd floor. The school isn't so much in a…

As a history teacher this makes me shake with rage. Fox commentators thinking history doesn't matter because they get bummed out having to think about slavery and the extermination of Native Americans is textbook white privilege.

I had a conversation with a conservative member of my family many moons ago where he told me (upon finding out that I regularly contribute money to Planned Parenthood, which I told him proudly) that my feelings on abortion would drastically change when I got pregnant.

I went to PP yesterday! I had my annual exam and got my BC and found out that if my pap and HPV test come back clean no more paps for FIVE YEARS! And there's an app that I downloaded on my phone to get my results when they come in, isn't that awesome? They're really on top of patient care, I was in and out in 45…

Note to Representative Rhetoric: Planned Parenthood does not perform that type of procedure in South Dakota. Breast exams and pre-natal care and women's health services are not terrorism.

At first I thought the plus-size photoshopping was interesting. These women's bodies are manipulated all the time to be smaller, why not invert that. Beauty is relative and maybe if we start seeing more glamorous images of plus-size people we could reduce body-related shame and eating disorders etc.
BUT then I read…

Back in the 1950's my brother who was 7 and my sister who was 5 contracted the measles. My sister ran the course and was healthy again within a few weeks. My brother was not so lucky. He began to develop calcium deposits all over his body. Those deposits eventually also attacked his organs. His muscles began to be…