The researchers suggest these (TVs in bedrooms/on in the background) may be markers of household where "parents are relatively less engaged with their children," giving the kids fewer opportunities for intellectual and emotional growth."

Sometimes you want a four course meal at a five star restaurant.

"Emily Yoffe states explicitly that she understands perpetrators are to blame for sexual assault. How on Earth would you know that she doesn't really mean this statement?"

- All bugs like mosquitoes have AIDS and the only reason we're not all infected is it's really really hard to catch and yet somehow also you can get AIDS from just being around someone with AIDS so if you're trying to sell someone insurance and they tell you they have AIDS you should immediately leave and…

This guy sounds like he is full of shit.

You have no idea how much this has entertained me.

Hallelujah by anyone. All versions of this song kill me.

Racial epithets and threats of physical violence don't sound really emotionally safe to me...

I grew up in Wyoming, I was friends with Matthew and I was at his funeral. The people we hung out with did drugs, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, but that doesn't change the fact that those disgusting assholes murdered him because he was gay. I can unfortunately say that I knew one of them as well. And they were…

He spent 13 years trying to find something unsavory about Matthew Shepard. Where do these people come from?

I just read these books and devoured them in a day. She definitely owes a huge debt to other YA dystopian writers and it can be derivative but the characters are solid and it's a great story. Also the romance in it isn't an insipid love triangle (my one beef with hunger games) - SPOILER she falls in love, he falls…

I just took the quiz, and apparently I'm a Nespresso Coffee Maker. I didn't even realize that was one of the options.

Also, this is Thor Lund:

That was me in my family. "Do you really need that cookie?" became a constant struggle with me feeling like I didn't "deserve" food, and then feeling guilty for eating it. It created an incredibly unhealthy emotional connection to eating that would not have been there if my parents had simply chosen healthier options…

You do not own it, Will.i.am

A lot of people seem to miss that you can enjoy something immensely and be highly critical of it at the same time.

People have a knee jerk reaction to defend what they love, even on indefensible points.

Also with credit for the assist, Judith Zaffirini and Kirk Watson. Dream team!

Clinton Davis 2016!!!!!

Crying too. I'm one of her constituents, and I'm just in awe. I voted for Wendy Davis!