Okay, I feel pretty confident in saying that Ariel Winter's mother is awful. Insisting that your estranged daughter watch a slideshow of "happy" childhood moments in court? That is some A+ vindictive and manipulative behavior.

This isn't precisely a restaurant story — I was a teenager, working in the kitchen at my summer camp. But I spent the better part of one summer there doing basic food prep and cleaning up after the meals. At breakfast, lunch and dinner, three of us would be responsible for either a) running the dishes, glasses and…

Nah, I think it varies by dog. Our chow-collie-miscellaneous mutt gets a bath when she's unbearably smelly, which is about once a month. We'd bathe her less frequently if we could - she loathes it - but she's unfortunately keen on rolling in the smelliest dead things she can find. If your dog is less fond of finding…

As long as she gets all the proceeds from the book, I've got no problem with it; heck, I wish Oprah's book club was still a thing.

Why exactly would Pippa be wearing a"false bottom", as the article charmingly implies she did? To make her butt look bigger? Rounder? Smoother? It looks like a perfectly nice athletic bum in Spanx. I don't think it was extraordinary, or worthy of Butt Trutherism.

Johnny Drama; you could do SO MUCH BETTER.

Totally! And smarter than Calvin, too. But we need a "C" name to honor a deceased family member. There are surprisingly few good "C" names for boys.

That is the counter-argument, yes. Although I'm not at all sure about parenting the inventor of Calvin Ball.

I recently compiled a list of terrible baby names to send to my husband. They include such gems as "Cadwaladr", "Caomh", and "Cuauhtemoc." So you're saying he may have a legitimate reason for vetoing these? Even though he likes Calvin, despite my pointing out that a.) Calvin Coolidge isn't a great namesake and b.)…

DIBS.

Friends of ours had to get married before their wedding for immigration reasons (the groom suddenly lost his student visa). We found out that they'd already gotten married at their wedding when the officiant said, "So when I married X and Y the first time..."

So my baby is a dozen oysters Rockefeller and half a bottle of champagne? I HAVE NO REGRETS.

Does anyone else wish that Rosa Parks were still alive so we could hear exactly what she thought about Cliven Bundy? I don't know much about her, but I feel like she wouldn't appreciate the comparison he's making here between systematic, dehumanizing state-sponsored discrimination and his "right" to graze his cows for…

I know it's not funny, but "wild measles" made me laugh — it sounds like free-range, organic measles that you'd find at Whole Foods. And I can't imagine that it's true, either — I would imagine that it's like the chicken pox, where a mild case doesn't necessarily confer full immunity. My husband had the chicken pox…

I grew up near a Mennonite community, which is similar to but not quite the same as Amish. They would hire drivers and passenger buses or vans to take them to the local Wal-Mart. It was quite bizarre to be shopping for toilet paper and suddenly see a woman in full-length dress and bonnet shopping for the same thing.…

Does s/he say WHY getting measles is good for you? I'm genuinely curious as to how someone might believe that.

One thing I hadn't known about measles before the recent outbreaks is how incredibly contagious it is; a person without immunity (through vaccination or through already having measles) who is exposed to the virus has a 90% chance of becoming sick themselves, and the virus can survive for 2 hours outside the human…

I thought the mom would have had GDM too, but the article says she didn't. Her previous baby was 10.5 pounds — I think she and her husband just make big kids.

Maybe it's like the Matrix? It was never clear to me whether Neo remembered all the stuff that got downloaded into his head when he was in the "real" world.

Doesn't Mayim Bialik also advocate co-sleeping, elimination communication, and the like? Do we really need two former child stars telling us that we're bad mothers for not buying into Big Diaper or its co-conspirator, Cloth Soakers, Inc?