Can we talk about Alex Newell and how incredibly amazing he is?

Ok, yeah. The only Lil Debbie I know makes a mean oatmeal pie.

Whatever. In my case, the roles are reversed; I'm the one who's usually monitoring my mom on Facebook:

Clearly, the author is not a parent of teenagers.

Considering the lead author of this study is from Brigham Young, I'm going to venture a guess that the teen culture in Utah is slightly different than that of suburban New Jersey.

A survey of nearly 500 families also showed that teenagers who interact with their parents on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram are kinder, more generous, and are more helpful towards other people.

Dr. Sarah Coyne of Brigham Young University

Presented without comment.

Ok, but real talk? Computer skills are a vital skill in today's job market, as is the ability to properly protect and guard one's online identity; if your kid doesn't know how to friend you and then immediately add you to a list that is not allowed to see the majority of status updates or photos, save for a handful of…

One time I made my profile picture a photo of me in a field and my dad commented, "is this that time you shit in the field?" (referencing me as a toddler on an ill-advised family outing to the lake.

It's like the people who watch Mad Men and see the style and panache but none of the misery and abuse and despair. If that world was good to you, congratulations: you won the lottery. But odds are good that it wasn't that good to you, even if you were white, male and middle class. (One of the things that intrigues me…

Honestly, if my little thesis is enough to count as an article these days, then the tech naysayers are right: we suck at reading long-form now.

Is the quote "savvy young things" referring to younger women? A man who can't take direction from female superiors doesn't need to be mourned. Good riddance. Also the term "young thing" to refer to women (as it usually does, hence my assumption above) needs to go away. It's offensive. Women are people, not objects.…

David Brooks is to Paragon of Masculinity

as

Newt Gingrich is to Relationship Counselor.

I know of a few men who are currently not working because they don't want to work for someone else and they won't take jobs beneath them.

One of my groomsmen had his first child a few years back, and when I asked him how he felt, he responded, "I... honestly... am I supposed to love him? I really haven't developed these feelings yet and I feel HORRIBLE." A few months later I called back and he said, "Yeah, so, now that he's not a screaming poop machine…

Naw, man. Believe me. You'll know when you've seen an ugly baby. They're out there.

YOU DID THIS TO ME!

My grandmother used to say that whenever you met an ugly baby and didn't want to lie, you said "Now THAT'S a baby!"

Separate spheres is soooo 1845.