Totally! I wanted a baby, and then when I found out I was pregnant, I was so...underwhelmed, that the doctor made it very clear that I had options, if I wanted to use them. A coworker told me the story of how she miscarried at 19 weeks, and a close friend miscarried about two weeks before I found out I was pregnant,…

As soon as I was able to understand the concept of pregnancy? My parents never thought it was slightest bit odd that they didn’t think “ make-a-bebe!”* each time they had sex, so,I always knew I was absolutely unplanned. The story I’ve heard since I was around three: They assumed and accepted that, after not trying to…

My brother was the result of an unplanned pregnancy. My mom was pretty upfront about it, but in a kind way. That still didn’t stop me as a kid from tormenting my brother over it.

I found out I was pregnant my senior year of college. When I told my son's father (also a senior in college) he cried for weeks. He cried more often during my pregnancy than I did. Neither one of us were financially or emotionally prepared for a baby. His father pushed for abortion, even scheduling an appointment at…

The first time I got pregnant we were so excited, and so happy and so just delirious. We talked about it constantly. We had only just pulled the goalie and it happened right away. Amazing! I miscarried at 9 weeks.

I know it's cool to hate these shitty NBC live musicals, but if there are seven year old kids out in the middle of nowhere who are discovering a love of musicals/live theater from watching this, and those kids grow up to be adult humans who are invested in live theater as an art form, then I'm really happy these…

I'm too lazy to find it, but there's a pretty good Harlan Ellison anecdote about an entertainment executive excited over the brilliant idea he had: "Let's do The Wiz . . . white!"

It's ironic how that works, because most of the people that have criticized my lack of interest in children seemed to have had them for selfish reasons: "What happens when you're old? Who'll take care of you?/Don't you want a mini-version of yourself?". My mother has even started hinting that she wanted grandchildren…

This Khaleesi is dangerous. They say she has an army of slave. She must be stopped.

"Charles, you shall bring me the head of this... Khaleesi."

The Queen is so well dressed you might say Wintour is coming....i'll let myself out.

I loved this show in the beginning (when it was supposedly not very good), but have fallen off watching it this past season.

The Stig is standing stoically next to the Top Gear test track as "All By Myself" plays in the background.

My theory is that he's not so good at hiding his true heritage. You see, the story is that his father is a Cuban immigrant and his mother is an American citizen...but the truth is...he's actually a clown.

"Hang on, let me complain to management..."

Posted this last week but it was late and I'm in the greys so I guess no one ever saw it... will try again

Jesus did say love thy neighbor but don't have their bastard babies because my mom already used immaculate conception as an excuse.

Coming from a hardcore Catholic family, the only ones still going along with the anti-birth control thing simply haven't popped out enough kids yet or haven't inherited the wonderful endometriosis or PCOS that plagues the majority of us.

Thank you for writing about this. I had missed the Atlantic article but it doesn't surprise me, given my experience as an outspoken Christian feminist. I am Protestant but I live in a Catholic majority area and this absolutely holds true. My extended family is also Catholic and all my cousins and aunts are on birth…

If they can keep 98% of the looks, and put the Cooper S drivetrain in it, I think it can be forgiven to be FWD. While RWD would be zomgamazing paired with those looks, I expect that would require quite a bit more restructuring of the chassis than makes it worth it for BMW to do (unless it will share underpinnings…