I'm happily mated, but I will not lie: I fantasize not about sex, but about having a clean, orderly house, drinking wine and eating sushi while watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta. And then walking my dogs after midnight.

I too am experiencing the joys of being newly single! Junk food + bad TV (that no one judges you for watching) + cozy pajamas = a damn fine evening. Just stay away from the liquid cheese dip that's sold next to the tortilla chips because that shit is like crack and shouldn't be legal.

Step 1: do whatever you want. Step 2: repeat every goddamn day.

I'm recently divorced and living alone for the first time ever. It's AMAZING. My ex husband was super critical and I am experiencing freedom like I've never known.

World hijab day, where non-Muslim women are encouraged to wear hijab, was started by Muslim women in the US to get non-Muslim women to have a way to empathize with what they experience. It seems like this is a continuation of this. I don't get the snark (eta: except about the 'skin darkening').

So normally when people are like, "When in history would you go, if you had access to a TARDIS?" I'm like, "Nothing between dinosaurs and spaceships, because history is fascinating but I don't want to fucking be there."

Wait. I could've taken pirate history in college??? I missed my calling.

Perhaps Margaret is right — piracy is our only option.

I want the movie rights and I want it now.

A wonderful piece, thank you! It sounds like she was an important figure at a pivotal point in history, where cultures converged to start forming the socio-political-cultural world as we know it today.... I did not know the first thing about this woman, and now I am wondering why everything I've read about the great…

You had me at Pirate Queen. Seriously, this was great. I'd love to read more stuff like this.

Your gif powers are top-notch. I would like to be your disciple.

"They have resigned from the school district, where they had previously been on paid administrative leave."

Reminds me of 21 Jump Street (movie).

Like AXE. Not sure which is worse.

And for all the people who come out of the woodwork to defend these two 'cause they're close in age to their students? NO.

May the Restaurant Gods smile forever upon him with bounty and wealth. Yea, let his staff rejoice in their blessings.