I got a pretty cool random antique store find yesterday. It's a book published in 1888 called A Girl's Life 80 Years Ago. It's been digitized and you can read it online (http://archive.org/details/agirls…).

Thank you for the headline 'Found Alive". All day I have read and heard news reports of the teenage girl "'doing well" "not harmed", "in good shape" etc. There is no way this young girl is well, or in good shape. The psychological damage will be tremendous and life altering. Physical harm can be repaired much…

Rick Santorum is absolutely right. They are fucking ruining the heretofore pristine reputation of the YMCA, which used to be such a nice place to get yourself clean, have a good meal, and just do whatever you feel.

I just cackled at the mental image of a bunch of pasty, flubby naked old dudes with hairy backs using YMCA showers, talking football or whatever, then the PRO CHOICE guy says, "you know what fellow Nekkids? I think women should not only have affordable and easy access to all forms of birth control, regardless of age,…

"They're passionate, they're willing to do and say uncomfortable things in mixed company"

Look, what I'm saying is, you should be comfortable in a shower with other young men, okay? You have to live it with them. You have to be passionate, willing to do and say things in mixed company that perhaps you thought were uncomfortable before. Some might call that experimenting, I call it being passionate! You…

Disney animated features mapped out by geographical location. Where does your favorite take place?

I've got to say: I'm so tired of having to deal with some standard that if I'm mad about something racially insensitive that was said to me, or anyone. I'm playing into some stereotype. I think Howard absolutely did what he could here, and for the purpose of Big Brother, did what he had to within the confines and…

My local paper (Seattle Times) had a recent op-ed and story about this—the fact that not only can people no longer earn tuition over summer break, they basically have to work an eighty hour week to afford to go to UW with no government help.

i guess what i'm saying is that these trend pieces about millennials aren't all about middle class white girls who have life so hard. if you're tired of these kinds of stories and feel like none of it applies to you somehow, then don't read them. but this is the reality for many people, not just middle class white…

My mom asks "what does age appropriate mean?" Then she made a fart noise.

Right? As a person he sounds kind of insufferable (I know zilch about her) but I would wear that shit around the house every damn day. And outside the house. And I would make my friend who knows Elvish come up with an Elvish name for me and then demand to be called that.

FOR REAL. I think not having to decide what to wear to a wedding is awesome. I think having to wear a badass outfit designed by the LOTR costume designer is even better. For this, I would give all my measurements. HAVE THEM!

Uh, isn't that kind of... awesome? Like, wouldn't you get a perfectly-sized elf gown or whatever?

I'll say it again - I can't believe they let him say that they weren't virgins when he took them. That is fucking horrid.

I am still going through my awkward years. So I could take a pic now of me holding my awkward pic and then in 10 years take a pic of me holding the pic of me holding the first awkward pic.

I hated my 6th grade photo so much that I scratched it out in my yearbook. I look back on that and want to hug my 12 year old self.

My big brother recently posted a photo of my seventh grade science climb on Facebook. We weren't mortified, as he had hoped, but amazed at how thin we were, who great our skin looked, etc. We all remembered/imagined our younger selves looking much worse, and the reality was rather sweet. We just all tactfully…

Aside from the whole fighting fat thing, fresh fruits and veggies are, I hear, more nutritious than the cheapy fast-food and pre-packed food that is so readily available. I hope this is something that is available to the community in general because it seems like a good idea for most people to get more nutritious…