I don't think it's that creepy. Theoretically, your employee is generating value for you (tangible or not), otherwise you wouldn't have hired them. If they die unexpectedly, that value disappears, at least until you can find someone suitable to replace them, train them, and get the up to the point where they're…

Actually, we are, on average, eating about 200 more calories per day than we were in 1970.

Ashley really is a brat, and her parents seem to bring out the worst in her. What she perhaps ought to have done was go to a residential college - being far away and having to figure things out on your own actually does help you get your shit together (which seems to be part of the weird and unarticulated reason to go…

I am pretty sure Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this... maybe in Outliers?

Today has not been a good day. Morning after pill + 4 hr roundtrip drive for 2 hours of work which involved standing up in front of people while desperately wanting to puke. Now I'm exhausted and I can't fall asleep. Sigh. Not my day. At least I got laid, I guess.

I have Pepcid... I wonder if that would help. I'm not feeling nauseated now but I took it around 10am.

Fucking fuck all morning after pill. I have to work tonight. No way to get out of it so, I shall power through. Stupid condoms. Stupid dude who was stupidly unconcerned (or at least, less concerned than I was) with the condom slippage ("Well you're PROBABLY not pregnant, so don't stress..." "Dude, drive me to CVS.…

I do that too sometimes. It feels stupid and judge-y and it's a waste of time but I'm not sure how to turn it off.

I think this is sad. Programs with lots of teenagers necessarily attract scandal, that's true, but just like Youth & Government programs, Youth Action committees, and Youth Councils, the Senate and House Page programs were an excellent opportunity to get young people aware of and involved in the political process.

My advice, as someone who often has to travel to unglamorous and typically unhealthy destinations (read: rural South) for work — you need to figure out how to make fast food healthy. Plenty of times in tiny-town-Mississippi, there is no one in town selling healthy food (unless you're going to cook it yourself which is…

Well... yeah.

I know that the study controlled for how many cigarettes were smoked in a day (one would assume if you must have a cigarette within 30 minutes of waking up, you might smoke more in general than someone who doesn't start til mid afternoon), but I wonder if it controlled for how addicted each individual was to nicotine…

A good friend worked for the state's attorney's office for a long while, before becoming a public defender. For her, the motivation was at first that she had seen (multiple times) the way the justice system disadvantages those with little privilege in our society (the minorities, the poor, the mentally ill, etc) and…

My tip? If you need to pee a lot, please, please, please don't take a window seat. Getting comfy in one of those little airline seats (yeah, the ones back in steerage, if I flew first class we wouldn't be having this discussion) takes approximately the first half of my flight. Once I find it, I don't want to move. If…

Very sweet wedding announcement in a South Carolina newspaper. Stuff like this gives me hope that the country's changing, little by little.

I forgot how much I love How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

I read about this a few months ago. It is terrifying and awful, and yes, done out of love. For many of these girls, the development of breasts marks the transition from girlhood into womanhood. Close to 500,000 rapes are reported each year in Cameroon (to say nothing about the rapes that aren't reported), and rape…

I am going to make my engagement ring myself. Out of locally grown lentils, tied together with DIY handspun hemp.

Aside from the grossness of the bologna/mortadella/why the hell would you want meat chunks that big in your sandwich —

I'm so with you. Dating an Indian seems fraught with cultural expectations. Dating someone non-Indian brings the risk of fetishization and marginalization.