My uncle gave everyone (and I mean everyone) in our extended family a HUGE framed wedding portrait of him and his second wife for Christmas one year. Like, bigger than the portraits people had of their own weddings.

My best friend gave me a DVD of her wedding for my Christmas gift that year. :| :| :| :|

I made a comment sometime ago about how Dylann Roof is, sadly, nothing unique when you look at patterns of how entrenched poverty radicalizes people. When you are raised with no hope of ever escaping your situation, you forge ‘us vs. them’ ideologies— usually against an otherwise unassociated group of people who can…

I appreciate that this article isn’t the usual wall of negativity that is Jez’s usual reporting style about the supposedly monolithic hissing snakepit of bigotry that is this part of the country. There’s a lot of good down here, a lot of culture that “the north” has co-opted as their own... there’s also a lot of…

prolly because her dresses are so boring

The best memories a girl can have is when Mom went to work and dad was all "oh I can do this, this is easy!" and you wound up with a shitty side pony tail and started crying because it was picture day.

Braiding your own hair is some high-level magician shit. I can just about manage a basic braid but I know someone who can French braid her own hair and I regard her as a dark sorceress who has compacted with spirits.

That’s the fur of competence.

They should go back and re-edit with Hannibal Burress playing Dr. Huxtable. Win/Win

I rowed at a regatta at Henley-on-Thames a couple weeks before Royal Henley, so I was lucky enough to see the fashion. The hats are great, but the blazers take it to a whole new level for both genders. Book for further study:

It depends on the geography and income level you’re looking at. The Romans had running water, even heated taps if you were rich. China got up to all sorts of water engineering projects. But if you’re talking recognizably-modern, comfortingly-familiar white western people with taps you turn to operate and toilets that…

I’ve said this here before, but my specialty (pediatrics) exists because getting kids through their first 12 years of life was kind of a big deal for a long, long time. Vaccines have literally changed the entire scope of practice. The doctors that trained me saw things weekly that I’ve seen maybe ONCE. The Pediatric…

The White Collar Exemption, as I understand it, has always been subject to the $23,660 threshold, meaning that if you were salaried at less than $23,660 you were entitled to overtime no matter what. In order to fall under the exemption, your job had to fall under a certain category and meet certain criteria, AND pay…

She was witnessing the first annual Chicago Mariachi and Folklórico Festival.

Bigot tears are low-fat, low-carb, and alcohol free, so you are good. However, call a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours.

illeagls sounds like an avian themed hip hop group

Wait, who is Kim? Where was the makeup done in Mayra’s piece?

Fine then. Watch my 49 minute youtube video called “Why feminists are ruining gaming” where I talk about that one girl who didn’t date me that one time. Also, I don’t play video games.

Congratulations, Bears, you guilt-tripped me into watching Treme. After work I went and hung out with my friend and watched Orange is the New Black (which is not as technically good as Treme but which I enjoy way more. Do you watch that one?) So this morning I was like, “Hmm, Emma, you only care about women of color…