When it comes to encouraging kids to read, it should go the other way as well. So long as the student can show they are capable of reading at the appropriate level, if they want to read at a lower level, teachers and parents should approve of their choosing to read, rather than saying “you’re too old for those books,…

And of course, the usual asshole Democrats were willing to show their priorities by voting no with the Republicans.  Like Manchin and Jones.

Your poor dad. Maybe it’s because I’m already so angry at her for this, but made me cry. I broke my politics silence with my mom over this. She, as a person, is the most compassionate, nurturing, loving person on the planet. As a voter she is the exact opposite, to the point that if I ask her a question in an…

I wish I could believe in god, just so I knew someone would ultimately slap her in the face.

Here comes yet another aspect of the bad old days. My dad cried today when he heard this news. His older brother had a high fever as an infant back in the forties, he has the functioning intelligence of a 12 year old. Because of this, my uncle was never allowed to go to school. Never allowed to work, and because of…

FUCK OFF BETSY!!!!!

Fuck the Trump administration, especially as I’ve been crying on the reg’ at each and every Humans of New York post over the last week or so. The Special Olympics matter, but apparently not to those in charge, and that’s a very damaging message to send...much like every other message the Trump administration has sent…

“ Annals of Internal Medicine” always makes me laugh 

I found my reading started to get closer to it’s former levels in my mid-late 20s (mid-30s now), but it’s been a while since I read a novel. It’s a lot of short form stuff- articles and comics, etc.. I find that really helps because I don’t like abandoning something halfway through if I’m not enjoying it, but that…

The third was assigned reading for school. And not like reading for BOOK IT! or choosing books off a summer reading list, but “here is a list of books you have to read for the year, now read them”. Nothing turned me off quite like being forced to slog through books I didn’t want to read. If the time I had available…

I’m of the opinion absence of choice is a HUGE factor in the turn off for reading. Forced reading lists are part of it. It’s one thing to show a child some books and say “these are considered great books - you’d like them” vs. “here’s some books you have to read, read them.”

The best strategy I used for getting…

I can’t pinpoint when my reading for fun slowed, but it was somewhere around this age. There were a few factors that really led to that, one of which is explicitly mentioned here—organized sports and running around outside with my idiot friends became far more important to me. That meant that once I got out of school,…

It seems you need an anatomy lesson. Labia are not the entirety of the groin. Whereas I can see where you are trying to compensate for the idea that the vagina is the totality of female genital, this is a little beyond what is necessary. Some women have large labia minora, which might not fit in this, but not…

The other day, my husband said to me, “I decided not to try to reason with you about buying Jagged Little Pill on vinyl and bought what was in our Amazon cart.” I gave him a pitying look and said, “It is an amazing album. You’ll see.You’ll see.”

Gotta disagree hard on this one. IMO Jagged Little Pill holds up as a top 10 90s album. It’s a viscerally angry album and Alanis is SO GOOD at getting her emotions across.

There is a special place in hell for people who prey on a parent’s insecurity about taking care of a child. When my newborn wouldn’t sleep through the night for almost a year, I was trying every fucking thing I read in books and the internet. Although mine is a pretty benign example, I can somewhat empathize with a…

Thanks, Oprah.

I know a woman who grew up poor with drug addicted parents.

I can’t even read the entire article. This is so sick.

As a doctor, I will never forgive Jenny McCarthy, ex-Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and people like this for disseminating such misinformation to the world and causing such a backwardness in the public scientific knowledge base.  May they rot in hell.