Yes! It must be super alcoholic. This is my favorite recipe: http://www.businessinsider.com/george-and-martha-washington-eggnog-2013-12

Eggnog must be homemmade, and very, very, very boozy. The cartons sold in grocery stores are blech.

Many people who hate eggnog have only had the disgusting stuff sold in a carton. I would be pleased to share my homemade eggnog with you, which is made with 4 kinds of booze and cures in the fridge for up to a week. I serve it with freshly grated nutmeg and several eggnog haters have told me it is extremely delicious.

Actually I have read that Diana was in fact a commoner, even though her father was an Earl. I don’t quite understand the ins and outs of it. Officially she was not Princess Diana, she was Diana, Princess of Wales, because her title was through her husband.

I’m a an older white suburban person and I am obsessed with keeping my blinds closed. But my husband (also white) NEVER closes the blinds EVER. It drives me nuts but he just doesn’t care. I used to fight with roommates about this too. In grad school I lived in San Francisco in one of those row houses where all the…

I think in the U.S., if someone is talking about Muslims they mean people who follow the Muslim religion. It’s not a racial category.

I’m a white person with family roots in the South and the small town Pacific Northwest (although I grew up in California). I have talked many times to overtly racist people in the South as well as well meaning liberal white people on the West Coast who do not believe they are racist but have many excuses. I have come…

And btw, I saw a comment “this must not happen in California”... I’m in California.

As a white person I have never had to deal with this and I just find it shocking because I can’t imagine touching someone that way. I have a coworker who is African American and we were out to lunch one time with a group, and two older white ladies came up to her, totally out of nowhere, and told her that they loved…

Agree we live in a society where many people are shitty to each other and it’s not just straight men vs. women. I have a male friend who was basically raped by a woman he had dated casually a couple times. He was recovering from a broken ankle and she came over to his place and got him really drunk, then gave him BJ…

I have a close friend (gay man) who worked at a store in LA when he was in college in the 1990's. He told me a story years ago (way before any of this was in the news) that he is NOT a fan of George Takei because George came into the store once and hit on him in a really aggressive way. I don’t know exactly what…

You didn’t mention the travesty that was the SyFy channel’s “Wizard of Earthsea” adaptation, which turned Ged into a blond white guy even though he is clearly described as dark skinned in the books. In fact Ursula LeGuin was horrified and deeply critical of how the miniseries whitewashed her characters, who she had…

This is a great article. As an attorney, I use “allegedly” all the time. It has a very specific and useful legal meaning: it’s an assertion that is has not been adjudicated as true or false. For example, a complaint contains allegations, not evidence. It describes what the plaintiff claims he or she can prove when the…

I find this all so confusing. I am a middle aged woman, who was introduced to science fiction by my GRANDMOTHER who started reading sci fi in the 1940's when she worked for a library in a small Oregon town. She had a huge collection of pulp paperbacks and magazines. In high school, my mom and I used to take a bus from…

When I was growing up (I’m 50) it was the same with the Kennedy assasination, which happened 3 years before I was born. For most of my childhood, my mother couldn’t talk about JFK without crying. It changed everyone’s life, but for me and my peers, it was just a historical curiosity, something that older people talked…

THANK YOU!!! I am a super anxious fretter whenever I travel. This is an awesome idea that I never thought of! I also constantly worry that I forgot something important, even if I checked 5 times to make sure I packed everything. I think I’ll start taking pictures of everything in my suitcase, to avoid freaking out on…

This has been my hair forever because I can’t be bothered. I have really thick, heavy, naturally wavy hair, and I have bangs because otherwise I spend the whole day pushing my hair out of my face. I don’t grow it longer than shoulder length because it weighs my whole head down and makes my neck hot, and gets super…

This has also been debated in California in recent years. I find the whole thing kind of weird, because the point of a birth certifcate is so that people will have legal proof of their birth for purposes of government benefits and employment and so forth down the road, and to help the government keep track of…

It is most definitely, absolutely illegal to fail to pay your employees. I’m also strongly suspected some other illegalities here including but probably not limited to tax withholding violations and other shenanigans that will undoubtedly interest the IRS, failure to secure worker’s compensation coverage for the…

It took several months for the feeling to come back. I recall that I could feel pressure and temperature fairly quickly, but touch was slower, and it never came back 100%, but it did come back.