I’m commenting for the first time in... five years?? to share my family’s ridiculous Christmas cards I Photoshop every year. To my mom’s credit she thinks this is the best thing ever, although she does also make us also take a (more) normal picture.

Certainly, those quotes are overwrought. But the perks of these point systems aren’t insignificant - on Starwood, once you reached a certain status you got 10 free nights (I think - I don’t have that status yet). The guys quoted can afford 10 nights in a hotel so whatever, but I can’t. That perk would have let me…

If you spent most of your life away from your family because you travel for your job, you would be pissed if one of the main perks of that situation was lessened/taken from you after already being incurred.

Also, don’t apologize. Do not say, “I’m sorry, but I don’t want to talk about it.” Or, “I don’t want to talk about it, sorry.”

I had a doctor appointment last week to get tested for something that runs in my family. It was on the books for TWO months and the appointment was at 11:45PM. I got called back at 12:45PM and sat in the room until 1:30PM and finally left at 3PM. Like, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

I cannot wait for Nerdlet to start actually talking, because this drooling and throwing shit phase is getting really old without the payoff of toddler non sequiturs.

Strip clubs are gross and sad. A bachelor party at a strip club is an agreement among a group of men to have boners together in a room with disconcertingly sticky floors.

It’s stateside but ugh, the damn Plymouth Rock. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up fifteen minutes away or if it’s because it is SO UNDERWHELMING, but every time someone visits they want to see that stupid thing. IT IS FAKE! IT IS A ROCK! Please don’t make me!

Why does this need to be private? I wish that I had known that it was so common when I miscarried, saying that we should wait or that it’s private or shouldn’t be talked about it why so many people end up blindsided when it happens.

No, but maybe one of these will help:

I’ve heard people tossing that idea around—not as a well thought out argument, but as an assumption based on the idea that they’re not cigarettes so they must be fine.

Both parties needed to notify the court to seal the records. Cosby’s lawyers did but Constand’s didn’t leaving the records open. It was a violation of the agreement. How severe? Usually confidentiality agreements have clauses to say what happens if information gets out. Usually steep fines and sometimes it voids the…

This was pretty unclear in all the links, not just here. Here’s the deal:

Am I the only one who is disappointed they didn’t find a way to fit this song into the trailer somehow?:

#teamcat is pleased as punch.

Speaking from a career of selling photographs on behalf of photographers who regularly shoot famous people:

Not to keep picking on you, but you’re attitude about the President and the scope of his powers is part of why we have so many problems politically in this country. All of our language describing him as the ‘most powerful person in the world’ not withstanding, the reality is that the President is actually rather…

The best part about being a fellow gray is that you can say anything you want to them without un-graying them. With great power comes great responsibility; with no power comes doing whatever the fuck you want!

I stumbled across a store that sold facinators last year, then spent weeks complaining about how I have nowhere to wear one. Then we got the invitation for my 6yo friend’s birthday: a tea party. Fuck yeah. Went back and bought one, and I rocked it. A few months later, her sister turned one and had a royalty themed…

As an educator, I feel the question much be asked... is there a -reason- to be limiting screen-time? I mean, you clearly suppose that there is... but I’m not sure that’s accurate or relevant.

What I see in this op-ed piece is a projection of childhood dereliction of responsibility onto screens. What if your child…