"I know a lot of people get tired of like seeing me on TV ".

Nah. I did and said some pretty stupid things as a teenager, but nothing in this league. Pretty sure you could Truman Show my whole life and I still reserve the right to label myself as smarter than this girl.

That teenage girl may only be a teenage girl, but that Sheriff's Deputy is old enough to know that falsely detaining someone is illegal (even briefly and as a joke) and could be the basis of criminal charges. This involved, based on the photos, a fairly lengthy perp walk through the school and a detention of more than…

This is like, the ur-example of what "privilege" actually is and I will draw on it forevermore.

Still a better love story than Twilight.

When I was very, very young, I believed a similar thing, and imagined the poor babies being covered with chewed up food that the mother had eaten. This was when I was in kindergarten. But we had very educational books in kindergarten with pictures that showed that the baby was in the womb and the food was in the…

With my luck, I'd pull out the gun and he'd be all...

All plans, but it's not all pills - I said this in another comment, but on plan the generic form of the pill I take (Yasmin) isn't covered, but the brand name is. Totally bizarre. If you don't mind switching pills (I know that can be hell), check with your provider which ones are covered. Maybe that will help.

She had this great post on her tumblr (http://courtneymilan.tumblr.com) in answer to a reader question that I found really thought provoking:

I read some comment (can't remember who wrote it) that made a really good point, which is that people use "females" to sound scientific when they make generalizations about women. Like, they're acting like these things they have supposedly observed about women are the result of biological essentialism. "Females are…

I had a discussion with a man online who repeatedly used the word female, so I asked him if he knew it was offensive to many. He said he did and that's why he used it. I further pressed him and he said he did not view women as human beings and thus deserved the "female" terminology used to describe animals. It was a…

I just meant it as an observation of something similarly secret.

"Our Republican females"

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