My Mom & Dad would stop what they were doing and watch it with me because they loved the grownup stuff they threw in.

Plus, they let go of someone due to bad behavior? Yeah, okay, but they still plan to work with Johnny Depp.

To be fair, the reason I didn’t watch the new Muppet show was because the commercials made it look like they were all acting out of character...

Am I the only person who doesn’t find this story the least bit funny? Especially when you think about all the likely explanations and their potential ramifications... His mother may have cheated on his father, and once the kid was old enough that he could tell it wasn’t his, dad splits, and mom continues to lie to…

I know how to definitively settle the issue of whether he is black or not. He goes up to a cop at 2am to ask if they know the time or if they have a light for a cigarette and if they shoot him dead like a dog, then he is black.

You mentioned all the other Islay whiskies because you didn’t want to have to spell Laphroaig, didn’t you? :-)

Interesting that math is a young person’s game. I hadn’t thought about it, but I wonder if it is similar to what I see as a scientist where people decide that because they couldn’t do something in the past, no one will ever be able to do it. I have seen a couple of scientists end up almost paralyzed by the attitude…

A girl on my reservation just committed suicide. She just graduated from middle school and was about to start high school. I know a few people in their 20s who died either through suicide or accidents this last year.

My best friend was murdered 10 years ago this year. I decided to look up her family, maybe get back in touch with them, or at least send a card. They are all dead. Her grandma and her mom had cancer, her brother killed himself and I think her dad just got old. It is the weirdest, most surreal feeling. It feels like…

Reading this made me think of a friend of mine from high school and college. She was pregnant with twin girls, she found out that she had cancer while she was pregnant. She ultimately died at 26 and it was a story that garnered a certain amount of national and international publicity and I kept reading all of these…

I just remembered her parents said I’d provoked her because I knew the damage I could do. Why ?!? Because I wore patent leather Mary Janes with a gold metal band at the front. ( It made them as hard as steel cap workboots apparently). The trouble with that theory is that I wore the same style for years including our…

I feel you. My high school bully was an aspiring hockey player who thought he was King Shit and had the posse behind him. He was basically a combination of Biff Tannen and Marty McSorley. After high school we all went our separate ways and I basically forgot about him until I read about him in the newspaper. Turns out…

“...compartmentalising the hurt from our time in the victim’s chair and weaponising it later when roles were reversed.”

I can see all the boning in that corseted dress. Don’t feel bad. That woman is cinched within an inch of her life.

Same here. It wasn’t until I sat down and read the entire Bible cover to cover that I realize most of what evangelicalism teaches is bullshit. I’m still deeply spiritual and believe in God but suspicious of organized religion.

We wrote letters to our future husbands as a youth group activity! I got super into it, because I was 15 and not allowed to date (no dating until 16 in my house), and we were taught to be the kind of person you would want to marry—if you want someone kind, be kind, etc. In my case, it was the reason I moved away and…

I hear you now! Thanks for taking a minute to explain what you meant to me. I do not suggest church counselors for any serious problem. They have their moments, but they are not equipped for most of life’s major problems.

Except Father Brown. I think we can always make exceptions for him, no?

Not if it’s a Helicarrier

Every time I hear about “present exactly the same person/work but trick the decision-maker into believing the person is male (/white/able-bodied/straight)” experiments I want to scream and shove it in everyone’s faces. People spend so much time and energy saying “women (/PoC/etc) just don’t try as hard / don’t care as…