The night before my grandfather died, I chose not to go see him. I'd seen him the day before that, and for the first time in months, he was himself again: laughing and joking with the same bright, joyful personality I'd seen literally every single day growing up. Somehow, even at 92, even as his body broke down around…

I loved your Master's thesis you wrote at Penn St., "Mussolini: He Made the Trains Run on Time."

As the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I grew up hearing stories, reading books and knowing a lot of history about this horrific time in history. My grandparents still have their uniforms in a box, which they plan to donate to one of the many Holocaust museums at the time of their deaths. I don't shop at…

As a disabled person (and a community organizer with a disability rights organization), "disabled person" vs "person with a disability" is roughly analogous to "Black" vs. "African-American"; the latter is preferred by politically correct people who aren't part of the group in question, and often by older…

Yeah I'm not gonna lie and say nobody prefers it because I've met people who do, but there's no end to the amount of people with psychology majors who think autism is SO FASCINATING and are perpetually waiting in the wings to check you with "uhm, actually, I've spent dozens of hours with children who have autism/some…

As far as I know, the policy at Bryn Mawr has always been/in my entire memory as a student and alum that you must identify as female at the time of application to be accepted. I remember telling dudes that and there was always some douchebro who would go "ohhhh sweett so I can just lie and say I identify as female and…

Lots of people strongly despise person first language as it separates a person from the condition in question.

That brand still maintains the fishiness. Only other things in it are some olive/sunflower oil and salt.

I hear Kane was in such a hurry to make the meeting he ran out of the restaurant he was at without paying for the wings he was eating.