I love how they assume that there's nothing wrong with the policies they espouse, just the way they present them to the fragile girly portion of the electorate. I bet that this consulting firm's advice boils down to "Make everything pink! And put flowers on it!"

The gofugyourself girls have been saying that Kerry Washington is pregnant for weeks now. I have terrible pregnancy-dar, but I think they're right. Mazel tov!

I was just talking about the technology and kids and bullying issue with my mom last night! I know this is unrealistic, but I don't see many options other than raising my eventual kids as secular Amish.

My grandfather's family was from a small Scottish fishing village. The men would go out before dawn to bring in the day's catch; their wives and children would meet them on the beach at sunrise, where the wives would clean the fish and the children would help repair the fishing nets. Then the wives would carry the…

This is probably just a sleepwalking story, but still.... When I was around 9 or 10, I spent a week at Girl Scout camp with my friends "Ann" and "Beth." We stayed in what I think were old surplus canvas Army tents, which were made out of heavy, dark green canvas. They were set up on raised wooden platforms in the…

I'm torn here, because the show is very funny, plus I went to college with the two writers, Sarah Haskins and Emily Halperin. They're both awesome. That said, I have a strong, irrational reaction to Malin Akerman's character and her relationship with her stepkids, which I readily acknowledge comes from my experiences…

Gah, "Home." I watched that alone while babysitting, the kids asleep upstairs, with my back to a huge plate glass window. After the episode finished, I was too scared to turn around or move from the sofa until their parents got home.

Is the title seriously "Never Trust a Liberal Over Three - Especially a Republican"? It doesn't even make sense - am I not supposed to trust a four-year-old liberal? A four-year-old liberal Republican? Are there any liberal Republicans left of any age? Jesus, it's like she dropped the Wingnut Outrage Machine (TM) and…

My mother had primary custody of me as a child and has subscribed to both the semi- and the super-local newspapers for my entire 33 years of existence. I learned to read from the funny pages, and later gained a political consciousness from the editorial pages that we read every morning over breakfast. So this is both…

Also, we ladies who do federally-funded health research are potentially somewhat screwed; this means potentially months of delay in funds being disbursed (particularly since the NIH is slow on funding issues on an ordinary day.)

Totally off-topic, but who is the actress next to Clint Eastwood?

It's no coincidence that his name is remarkably close to "Yahoo."

If it's not religion, how do they explain the "Intelligent Designer" bit? I.e., that creation is too complicated and delicate to have evolved, and thus demands some sort of cosmic clockmaker figure? I'm genuinely curious as to how they gloss over that part.

Seconded, thirded, a thousanded....

Also, I believe he'd been exiled to a hot, thorny, remote island in Greece (Patmos) and was sleeping with his head in a cave. The hallucinatory vibe of the Book of Revelation made a lot more sense to me after I visited Patmos.

Cantabridgian here, who lives about 4 blocks from the Tsarnaev's house. Comments like Orson Scott Card's infuriate me — we woke up that Friday morning to dozens of sirens and helicopters. No businesses were open, the T and bus were closed, and they were reporting controlled demolitions of materials found at the…

This is just a guess, but I would imagine that she gets flamed for being cute-sexy rather than sexy-sexy.

Don't read the comments on the article if you want to maintain your faith in humanity. A terrifying number of people seem to believe that if you're convicted of a crime and sent to prison, you give up your rights to everything, including your body and reproduction.

Boston's Red Line is actually much improved from when I was a college student (1998-2002); I'd play "spot the rat on the tracks" while we waited for the train. It's cleaner, they've posted electronic signs indicating the arrival of the next train, and the announcers are more coherent than the ones on DC's Metro. The…

OMG this. Leaving shell casings in the returned rental car? Being caught on surveillance tape multiple times on the night of the murder with a gun? Calling a cleaning crew to your house the day after the murder? An unexplained 6-8 hour gap in the surveillance tape in your house around the time of the murder? No…