Period sex is such a #$@ mess. I guess you could have dedicated period sex towels that you lay down for the period sex, but, "Hey, hold up while I get the period sex towel" is pretty unsexy.

I liked this story better when I thought she had released the photos and they were going to be published in the magazine without retouching.

Sometimes I walk into the bathroom thinking I just want to wash my hands, but then I realize I need to pee. But why shouldn't we want to have clean hands when we are near our lady parts?

...which has nevertheless found itself split in two broad halves across a new party line: We are either pro-vaccination, or anti.

I'll split my cookie with you.

I knew that was Madonna without even clicking through. Do I get a cookie?

I would stay that's comparably annoying to having your 9 year old daughter play Fancy on the music player about once per hour. Now we're even.

You mean this?

Money, money, money, money.

I have lots of complicated feelings about Michael Bloomberg, but thank God he's on this gun crusade. The Congress effectively forbids the ATF, CDC, the FTC nor any university to compile data and conduct research about guns, so only a rich man on a mission can provide evidenced-based research about the public health…

Interesting perspective. I stopped watching when Facebook was still only for Harvard kids, so the use of internet was rudimentary. I could see how it would be novel to add the social media piece into the story lines, but clearly only if done realistically. And it still must be stale by now.

My closest friend in college dated a professor in his 50s for our junior and senior years. He didn't teach in her major, so they agreed that even though it was rather hush-hush, she wouldn't even take a class in his department. Sadly he was diagnosed with liver cancer and she stayed with him and took care of him until…

How are people still watching SVU? Or are they new viewers? How many stories can you watch about (mostly) women and children being victimized in terrible ways?

It is so funny how ubiquitous Saved by the Bell nostalgia is, because it wasn't one of those shows that everyone talked about (at least not where I was). I watched it every day, as apparently so many others of my generation, but all we would discuss was Twin Peaks or Beverly Hills or Seinfeld or Cheers.

I interpreted it as an ironic humblebrag.

It doesn't reveal a greater truth but it is instructive against a backdrop where a large part of his party is happy to use marijuana and other belligerent behavior to paint victims like Trayvon and Michael Brown as amoral thugs. When white frat boys do it they're just horsing around but when black kids do it they're…

In most states 911 calls are public record. In those states news organizations can play them without permission from the callers. I'm not sure how a PSA converges with news organizations.

I wonder if he supports legislation that prevents people who enjoy ballet and opera from marrying each other.

What makes me sad is that the waitress probably earnestly doesn't even consider herself racist. She probably voted for Barack Obama (if she was old enough). I don't know how you get through to those people.