You're right, Bill Gates didn't get rich handing out $10 tips on $15 pizzas. Bill Gates got rich by having a grandfather who was president of a bank and father that was a lawyer. IIRC, the value of his trust fund when he dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft was on the order of $2 million.

True dat. My ex-husband, a preacher, worked for one of those lying-ass fake pregnancy centers. They had a whole handbook (a Pearson guide, which you can look up online if you like) detailing how to emotionally harass and manipulate women into "choosing" to keep the pregnancy. The second they hit the legal time limit…

I'm not a doctor, but it does sound like good old fashioned Ejaculate Conception

Hahahah.

commenting to help you get seen more, because seriously... Oprah's response to that was PER-FECTION. Also, I want my cranberry candle.

I'm not talking about shit, I'm talking about fecal-oral transmission of pathogens. You do not need to shit directly in someone's mouth to spread cholera, hepatitis A and E, dysentery, norovirus, and a whole host of others. If toilet paper were enough to prevent the spread of pathogens, surgeons would just give…

Oh, for fuck's sake. It's the Golden Globes. Not exactly edgy territory. It never would have been approved and if they had done it off-script, frankly, it would have been a shitty way to draw attention to themselves using the pain of those women, because it's all the media would have focused on. They did great with…

I feel like a joke about a fictional character being raped in order to very publicly blast a serial rapist who has used his power and connections to keep it quiet for 40 years is a pretty solid move. I also don't really think it was about Sleeping Beauty being raped at all. Like, yeah, it was the set-up, but the…

In the original folk tale, sleeping beauty is raped and impregnated by the Prince after he finds her asleep. She then wakes up when her infant (after giving birth to himself) sucks on her finger and dislodges the flax seed under her fingernail that is causing her to be asleep.

i think my favorite joke was that the civil rights movement worked and everything is totally fine now.

No way! I watched that all the time and never made the connection.

Fellow children of the 90s, we were raised with Ms. Peters in our Saturday Morning tv cartoons. She was the voice of stray cat Rita on Animaniacs.

I teach ESL here in Canada as my career, and spent 2013 teaching in Vietnam. If I have a piece of advice for you is please, please get certified. Take a CELTA, not one of those online bs courses. I went to school for 8 months to learn how to teach, and am now doing my M.A. in Applied Linguistics. Teaching people is…

Wow, only white people can travel abroad in comfort? That is ridiculous. As a mixed race person, before I visited the States, I got so many people telling me I'm very brave, as the US doesn't have a great reputation for safety of non-white people. I've lived on 3 continents, and only in America have I ever felt…

I'm in a weird limbo where I'm still trying to decide if this is the right decision for me right now. I decided to take a year (or more idk) off school to figure things out (depression/anxiety/shitty grades/what the hell am I doing with my life besides getting into student loan debt etc) and I just finished getting my…

Sometimes I really wish I could just quit my job, cash in my 401(k), empty my bank accounts and just PEACE OUT. Go to different places, pretend to be different people. I know I can't. I have my parents to take care of, I have obligations and responsibilities.

There is a strong wave of anti-Semitism coming from SOME of the Muslim communities in France, particularly ones with very new immigrants (and, unsurprisingly, those are very much the same Muslim immigrant communities that are most vulnerable to recruitment by radical Islamists), but European Jews and European Muslims…

that desire to laugh and cry simultaneously seems to be the inspiration for all Russian literature. Shoot some vodka and use that inspiration for something good.

I created an account after being a devoted reader since the beginning to say the following:

This is why Russian writers are so great. Suffering and absurdity are a daily reality for them.