Aaagh. While I like the premise of this article, I'm not comfortable with a lot of it. Like another commenter mentioned, demanding antibiotics is NOT the best way to go with a doctor. Demanding anything from a doctor is generally not a good idea. It pisses them off and adds unnecessary time/tests/costs/drugs that…

Aaaaand recent studies (I've had insufficient caffeine to look up the links, sorry) demonstrate that yes, we are indeed breeding antibiotic-resistant strains of acne bacteria. I mean, everybody make your own decisions, but I would not do antibiotics for zits unless the situation were so, soooo dire.

NO LIFE & STYLE. This is not “the Queen Mum”, this is the actual QUEEN OF ENGLAND, ELIZABETH II. “The Queen Mum” was mother, who was also named Elizabeth; the nickname was supposed to help avoid this confusion but apparently it’s ineffective on stupid American tabloids.

Bachelorette parties will forever have a special place in my heart. The first time I ever went to a real club (alone and with a male friend), this guy kept creeping over and grinding on me, uninvited. I wasn't yet the elbow-throwing feminist menace I am today, so I didn't know what to do other than sort of awkwardly…

Part of the problem here is that "depression" is like "cancer" - there are a lot of things that might be happening in the brain that cause similar symptoms, but need totally different treatments.

bingo! (and they only work for some people. again, a mystery.)

So the moral of the story is that SSRI's work (for given values of work), but we have no idea why?

So what you're saying is, your friend got a free wedding dress? Because otherwise...MURDER.

Heather Mills really is the worst. In other news, all of my cousins, who range in age from 15 to 23, know who Paul McCartney and the Beatles are. Most younger kids I know would at least recognize some of their songs. The idea that they would know who Heather fuckin' Mills is over Paul or the Beatles is just laughable.

Apply conditioner before you shave and you won't need nearly as much soothing afterwards!

iono I ask white people their ancestry. Spotting an Irish descendant from a German is easy and it's fun to guess. So I understand why white people want to know where your blood hails from. It's the same reason why white people try out Indian or Thai food, curiosity.

no those people are just curious about your genetic ancestry, they just don't know how to articulate it. I have often gone up to white people and tried to guess their ancestry. They always have a laugh and enjoy the fun of guessing such things.

Honestly I'd rather see the Kardashians everywhere than the Hiltons.

The invitations to my November 2001 wedding were mailed on September 10, 2001. The wedding venue? Windows on the World.

When I was 4 years old, my pappap passed away. Being 4, I didn't have much of a concept of what death meant - I probably kept asking when he was coming back. My parents explained to me that people get old, and when they get old, they will die and go away forever.

Sometimes I feel like lies don't count as lies when the truth is nobody's business anyway.

The title is misleading (if not an outright intentional lie.) The study appears to state that the *risk* of FGM has increased — NOT the actual numbers of FGMs performed. While it is, of course, a terrible practice, let's try to keep from getting hysterical and seeing bogeymen everywhere. The thing about cultural…

This is absolutely beautiful. There are so many stores everywhere these days- Slate, Jezebel, even the NYT- where people tell their "relevant" anecdotes. At the end, I usually find myself thinking some version of either: "So what?" or "Life-changing seems to be stretching it."

This was a great combination of…

This made me happy and jealous. Who wants to go on a trip to Italy? I have no money, but we could find a way...