When people are chanting “love is love,” they’re talking about the right to love and marry whoever you want, enjoy the tax benefits, be able to be in the hospital with your partner, and peacefully enjoy life as heteronormative couples do.

Oh yay, we’re playing whataboutism. Love is love is not about celebrity couples, who do very well indeed have a history of PR stunt, mutually beneficial relationships. Read about Rock Hudson’s biography for starts.

I thought they had been engaged for several months and were about to break up. Now that they finally are engaged, I eagerly await the break up a month before the wedding. 

Sorry to inform you, but Gwen Stefani died back in 2005. Anything that you have seen or heard since then is not about the same person.

You never told your partner about your creepy-ass uncle that stalked you and terrorized your town for your entire life? Or who you saw weird reminders of after his death all the way in NYC? Each of your aunts and uncles never came up once? 

Also the fact that he apparently murdered several people and no one could be bothered to call the police or even try to get him help from the VA. It was just “aww shucks, crazy Uncle Billy just disemboweled another tourist!”

Hi, author here. We’ve gone over this a few times but hey, let’s do it again! I posted my original story Oct. 7 last year, including the photo. I’d originally intended to submit it for the contest but missed the deadline, and someone recommended I repost this year to see if it got in, which it did. Yay! Someone…

“He was my mother’s older brother, who joined the military in the early 1990s and saw combat in the first Gulf War, but he didn’t come entirely back.”

“He then advised that if I ever got locked in the storage room when I was alone in the shop, I should promise out loud to take good care of the ghost’s babies, and she would usually open the door.”

I mean - did you miss the part where he died and the gifts kept on coming?  I don’t think being undead is a PTSD symptom

I thought the Uncle Billy story was pretty humanizing actually, it was very evocative and well written I thought

Is this Uncle Billy?

Yay, finally! I don’t care for Hallowe’en (it’s wasn’t even a thing until a few years ago where I’m from) but I wait for these stories the whole year. Seriously one of my favourite internet traditions.

Wow. I generally tried to keep up with the discussion thread on a daily basis, so I’d read all of these except the creepy uncle one. It wasn’t as scary as it was riveting and sentimental in a spooky sort of way.

As a former Boerum Hill and Park Slope resident, I applaud this name. Say hello to Brooke Lynn Hytes and Murray Hill.

If you thought the first Borat was “all about punching down,” you either didn’t understand the movie, or you’re the type of person who prefers scolding to laughing.

I actually just finished watching the new Borat movie and I thought its maybe the most culturally poignant film since Blazing Saddles.

I feel like they’re judging the new Borat movie at its face value without appreciating the subtext. It does an amazing job of pointing out just how horribly America, or some portions thereof, treat women. Maria Bakalova does an amazing job of staying in character despite all the mountains of BS thrown her way.

She must have some astounding dirt on people. I really don’t understand the longevity of a 70 year-old woman who has had the same haircut for decades in an industry that prioritizes youth and constant change above all else.

I honestly don’t understand why she’s so untouchable. She should have been fired long ago for this shit and so much more. Didn't we all learn the lesson from Matt Lauer's firing that the "essential" person isn't so essential to larger success?