I actually shouted at my husband, “how can you passive-aggressively offer to someone help on this show!?”

“Peter’s cubes aren’t quite as neat as Dave’s, but they’re certainly tempting.” Wait, what? 

The pond pudding has to be one of the grossest looking things they have ever made the bakers make. 

She is petty bourgeoisie through to her fucking bones. That aspirational protestant work ethic bullshit—man, say what you will about Catholicism but I’ll take my martyrs walking around with their heads on their hips over the protestant nonsense of measuring morality by the length of their ledger. 

I miss my husband taking my daughter to baseball games so that I could go have a meal alone and read!

I’m forty-ish and lived on my own from 18 to 30. I occasionally had roommates and live in partners but we never had 9-5 schedules so eating alone was just what a person does. It never dawned on me to feel bad about having a meal with the TV at home or a book out at a restaurant. It’s one of the things I miss most…

I feel like there has been some huge conspiracy to pretend as if forty isn’t a big deal. It’s bullshit. So far this has been the most my body has turned against me since I started my period at 12. Suddenly I have crippling menstrual cramps (first time since I was a teen), I sweat constantly, and my metabolism has…

If any of you want to know how this all likely shakes out over the next several years, I encourage you to read Vincent Bevins’ The Jakarta Method.

I was a junior in college studying American foreign policy when 9/11 happened. I was up early studying a for a quiz in an African politics class with the TV on in the background when it happened. Ran up to campus for my class and in all the buildings at the university they had pulled the AV carts into the hallways so…

Nope. I’m not. I’m just a PhD in political science who understands how electoral systems work. I am not silly enough to think that my preferences can compete with basic math. Also, presidential elections are about more than the single person who holds the office. It’s also about who will fill the head of every cabinet…

First of all, this website is barely left of center. If you are actually interested in the left might I suggest you check out Jacobin.com or MotherJones.com. Second of all, the two-party system is the result of our electoral system. We have first-past-the-post plurality system electoral system and a presidential…

I have one Republican family member and he voted for Biden this time. He said that having Trump as president was the most embarrassing experience of his life. 

Exactly...I went to high school with these dudes. They rode skateboards and were really sad they didn’t have the opportunity to date rape cheerleaders like football players. 

Anything you want. New York City is the financial center of neocolonialism. All wines belong to us. 

If you enjoyed the light-heartedness and the “foodiness” of this but want one toe (NOT a whole foot) in the realm of reality, might I suggest Sweetbitter on Hulu...

I remember hitting my mid 20s and being a little disappointed that the young men in my dating pool never looked like a ripped 34 year old Patrick Swayze.

Watching this movie with my mom in the 80's is how I ended up learning that at 18 (in 1969) she had to go to New York to get an abortion because they were illegal in her home state. I get absolutely furious when I hear people trash this movie as girlie-dross. 

These are the same people that continue to blare Born in the USA as a patriotic anthem...There’s not much you can do with that level of head-in-the-sand-ism. 

Life is the real villain. Teens who think they are going to be Christiane Amanpour are lucky if they end up working at a small town newspaper. Teens who want to be “rock stars” are going to end up working at a restaurant and playing in a local bar band. Teens who think they are going to become cutting-edge cancer…

I was definitely not pleased. There is nothing even OK about it.