You might’ve had three ovaries to start with - it’s not common, but it can happen, and it was probably a lot more likely that they’d have missed the “extra” twenty years ago.

I hate the fact that the renovated rest areas in Connecticut on the Merritt/Wilbur Cross all have a goddamn Subway in them. The sandwiches are infinitely shittier than the pre-wrapped, locally-made sandwiches that the old convenience stores on the road sold.

So now, you go in. Instead of being able to grab a quick…

Actually, in most places it’s 100% legal to take pictures of the police in public, as long as you aren’t interfering. They may harass you, but that’s not the same as it being illegal.

So a cop who doesn’t want a picture of themselves online beating someone should be asked to take it down from a news site or activist blog? There’s no legal mechanism to ask for removal of non-commercial (advertizing) use of a picture taken in public, and I’m not even sure there is one without a Supreme Court ruling…

Scientologists were giving away copies of Dianetics at the 1996 Atlanta olympics. My sister-in-law, who was volunteering at the games, was given a copy. A few of us glanced at it, and the thing that jumped out about the beginning of the book was that it was encouraging you the reader to separate from your friends and…

It really says something about you as a person when you’d rather imagine the impending end of the world because you can’t possibly cope with changing social mores.

Fifteen-year-old me would be surprised we hadn’t been nuked in the interim. That seemed reasonably likely when I was 15.

IRL - pre-web, but not pre-internet. I was a recent college graduate, working as university staff, and she got hired as a part-time student worker based on the recommendation of one of the other student workers. That person is still one of our best friends.

Anyway, a year later - and four months after my six-year…

Didn’t Michelle Rhee get criticized in Washington DC for laying off a bunch of African-American teachers, largely replacing them with white kids from Teach for America, most of whom only stick around for a couple of years? At least people are starting to catch onto some of the TFA nonsense.

My wife and I started dating when she was 19 (two months before she turned 20) and I was 24. A mutual friend had introduced us, and a few months after my previous long-term (and for a couple of years, long-distance) relationship had ended, she asked me out. So we had a five-year age difference, plus she's Jewish, and…

Today's hot dog water is tomorrow's "bone broth" - just add some seasoning.

Having Sandi Toksvig in that clip was a nice bonus.

Yeah, it's BBC Worldwide that really gets screwed if Top Gear goes. And while that's not a huge portion of their current revenue (I think, annually, it's still under £200 million that goes back to the BBC from Worldwide), it's growing annually.

There is. And the decline in variety and diversity of types of institutions is really worrying. The last thing we want is an education monoculture. But small, private, liberal-arts colleges are having a tough time in general, and they're not all going to make it. Some perfectly good schools are going to go under. And…

Honestly, if McD is going to act like this, I think members of the publix should consider using the actual restroom as entirely optional when stopping by for that purpose.

There's a ritual with a lot of chanting and the new Corporation is spawned from the carcass of a sacrificed goat.

Have you ever looked into the "professional training" track for HR types? It's actually shocking how poorly defined, inconsistent, and informal it all is. I looked into it when I realized I'd encountered my upteenth HR type (both good and bad) who seemed to have "wound up" in HR after doing something else. Given how…

I wonder if she ever hurled the "I should have married a Princeton man" at him during an argument. Ugh.

Shortly after our oldest was born, people would constantly say "So, you going to send him to Harvard?". Our usual response was "Well, honestly, at this point, how do we know that he's not a dummy?" People would just look mortified.

We make it clear to our kids that we expect them to work hard in school. We don't tell…

One other note - for anyone deciding that they're never buying a Hershey's product again. Hershey ice cream is made by Hershey Creamery, an unrelated, family-owned business with no connection to Milton Hershey at all. It was founded the same year, in fact.