This is reminding me fondly of the time I was 9 years old and bored at a family yard sale. My college-age cousin gave me her copy of “Cosmo,” along with instructions to only read the horoscopes. Ten minutes later she caught me reading the “Penthouse”-style letters section (“I never thought it would happen to me,…

.... numbers 1, 3, 5 and 6 are all the same model, right?

Nope! Ten years later, I find it funny. Even at the time there was a sort of dark humor to it, a sense of “Really? Did that just happen?”

My father was a self-described pagan who’d been halfway through a conversion to Catholicism when he died. None of us knew; we found out when the local priest saw his obituary and called the funeral home. I didn’t believe it until I found the Catechism in his house, full of his notes. The priest, who none of us had…

We’ve received at least three copies of “Goodnight Moon” and “Pat the Bunny” since our son was born, plus two “Sophie the Giraffes” and about six small blankets with stuffed animal heads attached. (Here’s your lovey, kid — a skinned stuffed animal). We gave the extra books to his daycare and wrote thank you notes to…

I never thought I’d say this, but: Kendall Jenner, you can do better.

I enjoyed the movie “Chef”, but a friend pointed out that the existence of a successful restaurant chef who doesn’t know what Twitter is, used to be married to Sofia Vergara, and ends up (SPOILER) bankrolled by a food blogger is... improbable, at best.

The Onion covered this way back in 2000:

According to the Chicago Architecture Foundation tour we attended, the local nickname for this thing is “The Big Screw.”

Re: pickle woman. With her and other customers like her, I can't help but wonder: are they mentally ill? Or on a psychopathic power trip? Or both?

Tiny little bags - like the ones you would use for beads or spices — can be considered drug paraphernalia. #stuffyoulearnonagrandjury

A friend of mine did the SNAP challenge for Lent and found it extremely challenging, both physically and mentally. So I give Gwyneth props for trying it. At the same time — scallions? A huge bunch of cilantro? Seven limes? No fats? I understand wanting to add some flavor to your rice and beans, but she could have…

I believe this was already covered by “The Simpsons”:

Do you mean if I was the leader of the free world and had sex with a practically underage intern, betraying both my role as a wife to my husband and mother to my child, and the prurient details were being splashed in loving detail across the world media, and I’d jeopardized everything that my husband and I had worked…

I’m sorry, is this supposed to make me like her less? I know violence is bad in most contexts, but honestly, I would have thrown a lot more than a lamp.

As I understand it, their rebuttal to this argument is “At least those couples have the right parts!” Because procreative-style sex brings you closer to God, etc., by demonstrating God’s plan, or something.

It’s racist because he’s surprised that she is well-spoken. He assumed that she wouldn’t be because she’s black. We don’t compliment people for virtues that we assume they must have.

Where do you go in real life where you regularly receive specific, targeted rape and murder threats from perfect strangers? We can all shrug off a shouted threat from some random jerk on the street, but I'm willing to bet there's no real-life analogue to the Twitter filth this guy regularly receives because he makes…

Does Bieber know that his tattoo looks like King Arthur's crown from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? I would actually like him a bit more if he did.