Parenting isn’t always about being that cool friend. Sometimes it’s just about being that Old reliable thing that they can count on. Sure you can be more creative and understanding about finding out what’s important to them. Absolutely there should be a measure of patience when it comes to communicating with your…

direct to consumer marketing, marketing to prescribers, playing down the impact of opioids and the risk of addiction, promoting the use of other opioids by saying one in particular was less “addictive”.....this is just off of the top of my head.

Hi there! It is actually pretty fitting to go after the pharmaceutical company when you know everything they did in order to bring millions to their knees due to addiction. They claimed it wasn’t habit-forming and poured millions of dollars into campaigns that touted that very important, untrue assertion. From the top…

If you haven’t read that longform New Yorker piece about the Sacklers, do it! It’s worth the read. Fascinating and infuriating, how a company can get away with lying to the public and flood the market with enough junk to cripple a generation of citizens.

I play a different version, my MIL tells us what she thinks our resolutions should be and then a fight ensues, at’s lively and exciting, but not really fun.

Black and blue look amazing together (when done right) and stopped being verboten around the same time the old ladies who insisted on matching their shoes and purses kicked the bucket, and along with them those outdated rules.

I loved the Trump lawn signs. Now I know where the neighborhood racists live.

Ooooor, you can relax. It’s a dress you’re going to wear for ONE DAY. Nobody but you will remember what you wore, or if your gut was hanging out, or whatever. Buy one you like and are comfortable in.

Something with a high pH?

Good news...it gets easier as you get older and Princess Diana’s dress fades in the memory. I tried on a gown and it made me nervous, so I found a two-piece number that was flattering but didn’t make me look like I was trying to be Cinderella.

It was her scatting that killed it.

I fully get this. As the mentioned upper-middle-class kid, I felt the same pressure to do everything “right,” and that chased me all the way to my early 30's. When people congratulated me for graduating high school, college, even law school, I never felt proud. I just wanted to say “Well, Mom and Dad wouldn’t love me…

Laura Bush’s thing was literacy. Imagine GW couldn’t read. Wait. This one sort of works.

Such a tough thing - you’re totally right and I felt the same as a teenage girl, that I just wish someone had been honest with me about all the bullshit and patriarchy I was encountering... I was just angry angry angry all the time, and being told to smile. Rage face.

Saying that she has been advising him on issues involving women and minorities doesn’t imply she is advocating for those groups, it implies she is smart enough to be teaching him how to avoid bad PR with those groups.

As the mother of a toddler I can confirm, there is only one thing worse than being tipsy and responsible for a small child - being hung over and responsible for a small child. I’m serious. It’s hell.

If a piece has worth simply because it attracts vitriolic comments, then there are some true artists hanging out on the Gawker/Jezebel forums. Some people can attract dozens, possibly even hundreds of angry, aggressive comments merely by writing a single-sentence post feigning extreme ignorance or insensitivity to the…

I hate that this has turned into an anti-women, anti-feminist bullshit cesspool. She basically just handed the microphone to a bunch of angry MRAs, who are using this situation to talk shit about feminism and women.

I don’t believe this is art. It appears to be an attempt to influence the debate about the alleged rape by Nungesser, by staging a re-enactment. By dating the video as the same date as the alleged rape, she is making a clear comparison to what she says happened on August 27, 2012: consensual sex followed by a slap,…

The more I think on this the more I arrive at two very troubling thoughts. Both are admittedly based upon my own speculative reflections on what it must be like to be catapulted to celebrity for having been subjected to a sex crime, and the psychological pressure, re-traumatization, and yes, ego boosting exhilaration…