So, here’s a crazy idea: when a kid reaches a certain amount of lunch debt, a social worker or school administrator reaches out to the kid’s family to try to find out why: is the kid going to school with lunch money every day and getting it taken on the way to school? Are they just spending it on chips in the morning?…

Ben Carson, a gentle salamander with tender paws

You mean our taxes paid for your abortion (in the form of a tax deduction)?!?

We used to try to get my MIL useful stuff like a electric kettle - she worries about boiling water for tea on the stove. That was years ago and it’s sitting on her counter having been used maybe twice. She’s worried it will start a fire. So now we just get her usually useless stuff with chickens on it. Random towels,…

And that’s why you gift things that you wouldn’t mind having yourself...

Nope. My mom, who is not, as far as I can tell, disappointed in me, is however disappointed in whatever gift I give her. Or anyone gives her. And she’s not shy about it.

I don’t care what KK does one way or the other, but wouldn’t it be a brilliant PR move for her to get Kanye to donate 1 million dollars to mothers living below the poverty line who get no paid maternity leave as a “push present”?

he’d be the resulting product “if Ed Hardy fucked a juggalo.”

I am sitting at home from work right now with a migraine (which is wearing off so here I am LOOKING AT A COMPUTER SCREEN I AM AN EEEEDJIOT) and I am scared of this too. But yesterday my husband took a picture of me when I wasn’t smiling for the camera and I looked like I was plotting a murderous rampage thanks to…

I don’t know. They may have a point. Those cups don’t look anything like the ones Jesus drank his Gingerbread Lattes out of.

How Harry form babby?

That is so freaking cool (and scary). I’m a huge Civil War nut and I honestly don’t know what I’d do if I encountered a ghost on a battlefield. I’ve been to some places known for their paranormal activity (Andersonville and Gettysburg), but have never felt anything there.

I saw an email question “What was the maximum weight of Jesus on palm Sunday, based on the carrying capacity of a young donkey?”

When the first story went up on io9 last year, there was a commenter who had someone ask her for a live sound recording of dinosaurs in the wild.

(this request pre-dated the days of everywhere interwebs)

i’m $55k in debt from library school

We just got this little guy about a month ago, and let me warn you — if you haven’t had a kitten before, they are cute, but a HUGE pain in the ass! I had always adopted grown-up cats, and I was NOT prepared for the level of destructive energy these little guys possess.

OMG, she’s perfect!

Yayy!! You’re going to have so much fun!