So I got laid off on Thursday, the week before Christmas. It was through no fault of my own — my immediate supervisor obviously felt completely awful and offered to provide recommendations or anything I needed. A new vice president recently took over and decided to reorganize my department and decided he needed to cut…

I was a teen back at the height of popularity for popular teen mall stores like American Eagle Outfitters and Abercrombie and Fitch, so I had trained my mom to shop there for preppy sweaters and tank tops and jeans and whatnot. This had also coincided with the trend of printing double entendres on undies and one…

Only people who don't understand journalism and the legal system would expect a "big reveal." At its best, investigative journalism shines a light into a more complicated reality and gets the legal system to go back and take a closer look at things. I was happy when she got the Innocence Project to reexamine his case…

My parents actually used to give us Barbies sometimes, which in hindsight is a little cray. But I always wondered how the hell they got them under my pillow without waking me up. They were still in the box and everything!

I didn't even have to read the article. That picture is weird sexual harassment.

Mais bruh, then we're Cajun brethren! I was working at a couple of sister newspapers in Houma/Thibodaux at the time of this incident.

Louisiana. We got bayous down here.

This isn't me, but it's a great holiday party story so I'll tell it anyway.

I've met her and her mom — I worked at a community newspaper in Houma, Louisiana, where she's from, and hung out with the folks when they were shooting Beasts of the Southern Wild (small town). When the movie was just blowing up we did a few stories on her and her family and granted, this was before Oscar/Annie/et.…

I dunno. I don't think this to be the case. Maybe I'm the magical woman who's always been with dudes who want to go down on her, but I've been sexually active for more than a decade and every man I've been with has always done it. The weird part? I'm a lady who's not particularly into oral sex. I'd rather have a dude…

Yeah that's a normal courtesy. That girl sounds weird. Most girls appreciate a heads up so they can act according to their personal preference regarding semen. Personally, I don't mind swallowing which seems to surprise some dudes after giving me the customary heads up, but hopefully it's a pleasant surprise.

To be fair I think he was talking about her finding his semen disgusting. I agree that's not a great thing to say to your wife in the name of sexual communication, but to me it's kinda like a dude saying your vaginal secretions are "disgusting" or something. It would make me a little sad and not horny if someone told…

After a couple of weeks of decline, awkwardness and continued arguing, my college boyfriend broke up with me when he exploded in frustration after I kicked his ass repeatedly in Super Smash Bros, Melee one night. It was a super stupid way to break up but we were super dysfunctional — he was kinda insecure because I…

I think my vagina tried to climb up into my body. You know, further than it already is.

Fair enough! He's been doing it for a long time too, slowly replacing his record collection from the 1960s and 70s with CDs, so I think it's just a continuing campaign.

I'm 30 and I pretty much buy music exclusively off iTunes if I do (although with so much streaming music I rarely buy an album unless I really, really like it), because I pretty much only listen to music on my computer/iPhone these days.

I basically felt the same way about the giant foam pit at the gymnastics gym, which I guess would be the human equivalent of a box full of packing peanuts.

I hate it when they do these weak ride makeovers. Learning that they turned the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Experience ride into a Lilo and Stitch ride was one of the sadder moments of my late Disney experiences. That ride was genuinely terrifying for Disney.

I used to work at a small-town newspaper and my work extension was one digit off from the main circulation line. I learned very quickly how to patiently talk down an irate old person who had their paper thrown in the gutter or who had not received their paper for the umpteenth time. The day I moved to a new desk was…

My main complaint was that Kelly Kapowski's hair was in no way big enough for a genuine 90s girl look. Took all the realism out of the movie for me (along with everything else about the movie).