My mom used to do that for our teachers when we were in elementary school — I think it usually stops once each kid has 8 teachers. I think if this is a “times have changed” kind of situation, it’s not that this is a new thing, it’s that it’s rather old-fashioned. You know, from when people you knew from their jobs…

Oh, damn, SMG and Aly Hannigan *ran into each other shopping at Michael’s.* That’s the cutest fking thing I think I’ve ever heard.

My dad’s a pastor, and he swears that 95% of the time, it’s the groom who full-on loses it and cries in the middle of the vows. His theory is that brides are still kind of on the exhaustion high of pulling the wedding together and this is just one more thing they have to get done today before they can finally rest,…

I quit carrying clicky pens clipped to the pocket of my apron because people would just reach out and grab them. I never felt it was assault-y, but it was just a very uncomfortable hand-to-groin relationship, and come on, people. *Boundaries.*

Well, sure, it’s got Wake County all over it.

Yeah, it’s bizarrely tone-deaf for Jezebel, of all places, to publish this article without a single mention of gender or a moment’s consideration as to whether all these things apply equally, *or at all,* to women angling for positions of leadership.

Get out of my refrigerator! Also, yes, exactly.

My issue with it — and I’m not going to pillory her or anything, but the reason I found it disagreeable — is that it basically boils down to “We talk too much about slavery,” and *no, we don’t.* We really, really don’t. We don’t because slavery makes people super uncomfortable in ways that, for whatever reason, the…

They’re just like movies chopped up into parts, right? RIGHT?

That’s just such a crazy broad statement. I’m a lesbian-identified bisexual, so I guess I get to check off two of those boxes. I don’t love Savage 100% of the time, and sometimes I’ve yelled at his columns, but I’m just baffled by the idea that he’s done me “a TON of harm.” I know kajilions of people who were softened…

It’s a common distinction within the humanities — “erotic” there functions as a term of art that relates to but also extends beyond sexuality. I realize you seem to have already decided that’s bullshit, but upper-level arts students will have a different association with the word than you do.

True fact, but Duke isn’t Ivy League. They wish, but no.

Bets on what expensive east-coast university he’s at now? My money’s on Duke all the way.

Ah, a frequent mistake. If I did in fact love a specific person named Mike, then you would be correct. But in this case, “mike” describes a particular relationship to me. One’s mike is one’s highest sacred value in this barren and transitory world. Obviously there isn’t only *one* “Mike,” an actual person that we all…

Well, I thought you covered that part pretty well! Didn’t really need my help. :)

If only the article had led off with a paragraph explaining what this actress has appeared in lately. Then we wouldn’t all have so many nagging questions!

Can I be a pedant? People, for the love of mike, it is “TOED the line.” As in, lined up in formation with your toes on the line along with everyone else. Why would it be “towed the line?” Where are you towing it to?

Oh, well, if she was *disrespectful.*

What’s crazy to me is how people are trying to spin it as, “SEE? Good Black kids know their Black mommas won’t let them do any protesting foolishness, because they are RAISED RIGHT.”