Rule #1: Never post a video when an article will suffice. Most people don’t have the time (or an appropriate setting) to watch a video, but all of us have 60 seconds to read a condensed list of tips.

Our running joke now, whenever we cross the border into Texas on a road trip, is someone calls out, “Whataburgers all around, on me!”

On a road trip from the great white north down to Texas, my family of 4 stopped at a Whataburger for dinner after waiting at a family-style restaurant to be served, and instead ignored, for 45 minutes. My parents are brown and my sibling and I are white-passing — we were in northern Texas and it was one of my first…

My dad was not there for us growing up and we were left with a very mentally ill and abusive mother. Since then, my dad has made a real effort to change and develop relationships with his kids. When I had my daughter, he dropped everything and drove 16 hours to come help out when I was released from the hospital. He…

1982. I am 13. I am playing fast pitch softball, 3rd base. My dad has coached me in previous years, but this year I am on a team where my dad’s good friend was the coach, so all is well. I remember this like yesterday.

So many possible stories. You know how after your dad dies, you start hearing stories about how he did this or that crazy thing in his youth? Well, with my dad, it’s sort of like that, only imagine that my dad was Batman, and you have the basic idea. His formal role was . . . ambiguous, but he was basically a “go get…

A complete history would take a few decades to read.

How about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre? White supremacists and the National Guard working together to destroy more than 35 square blocks of Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 200-300 black people and injuring countless more, just because they couldn't stand to see POC becoming more successful than white folks. I…

The uncertainty of asymptomatic cases adds fire to this. Estimates are that there are anywhere from 2 to 10 times as many cases as there are confirmed diagnoses. But even at the most generous, that would mean there were 50,000 undiagnosed cases in the US a month ago (when you would have had to have it to be recovered…

Oh it fully deserves lols! The sad part is, I still use it. And people usually say, “wait... is that... that looks like... oh my god!”

okay, so, no sympathy for weinstein obviously, couldn’t happen to a more deserving person, but this is going to be devastating for prison and jail populations. imagine being some kid picked up for possession and then get held in jail indefinitely because you can’t afford bail and they’ve suspended all court hearings…

I’m so glad to see this topic, especially since I’ve been melting down all over Jezebel the last few days over an emergency due to my son’s situation.

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

Waiting for that cat licking the plate to knock the next domino over is as tense as a Hitchcockian thriller.

Dear Editor,

I’m trying to buy it.

when you get lots of tetanus is it called tetani?

Pretty furious that there are still people saying that the woman was in the wrong for that seat incident. First of all, she did have a disability (fused neck), but besides that, she paid for and selected a seat that reclines. She’s allowed to use it, full stop. If you’re mad, be mad at the airline that keeps squeezing…

Any adaptive cruise I’ve seen has you set a max speed.

Thank you for writing this! The total emissions of the two are actually closer than I expected, but I’m glad someone has finally done a full, detailed report. For a long time, every attempt at comparing the two I could find would completely ignore the production of the gasoline, then proclaim them to be on near-equal…