This is absolutely disgraceful. The Nashville PD should be counting its lucky stars that all he wanted to do was destroy property, not kill people.

I love how a girlfriend’s highly specific and unprompted statement, corroborated by a lawyer who also represented the alleged bomb builder, that the guy was building bombs in an identified location is seen as insufficient for a warrant to search said location, but...

Wrong, Billie. Babies love boobs.

I spend a lot of time helping people get ready for a major west coast Cascadia earthquake (I hesitate to use “prep” since it has such weird connotations). I’m locally known for this, and I regularly get emails/messages from weirdos berating me for not telling people they should have booze and cigarettes in their…

I’ve been on a computer break, so I am seeing this late. As an archaeologist who has friends that work on European Paleolithic sites, this article is bullshit. While the findings are interesting way to look at these figurines, this interpretation has nothing to do with the meanings that these figurines held for the…

If you have a dog, ALWAYS keep a fresh bottle of hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide doesn’t stay effective very long, but it’s cheap.  I buy one every 6 months or so. If your dog won’t drink it straight, put some milk in it. **Call the vet or if nothing else look it up on the web before getting your dog to vomit,…

My nan genuinely cancelled Christmas one year.

Thank you. It really was magical when his little dog's ears perked up at the sound of his voice. I had no inkling that would happen. I write about him often on Jezebel just because. He was a wonderful guy and I miss him so.

This is beautiful. I’m sorry for your loss. What a lovely way to spend Christmas with your husband.

Last year’s holiday season was horrible for me. My dad was desperately ill with cancer, seriously mentally unstable/dementia and willingly influenced by his much younger antivaxxer anti-science Talibangelical girlfriend. Because I lived minutes away it fell to me to at least try to keep him relatively clean, fed, and…

This is my third Christmas since my husband died. I’ve isolated alone during the pandemic and my extended family all live far from me.

Congrats on your first published fiction, and having such a wonderful sister!

Okay, so this is a bit of a long one. We’ll call this Get Me A Fucking Roll, Damnit! Oh, and trigger-warning, this has an abusive under-current. Just so you all know.

The best part of our Christmas this year was when the puppy threw up multiple times...

I’m not going to say that this is my best holiday story, but today I got an awesome gift- a gift that brought me this bang-out of joyful suprise that I didn’t think was possible for any reasonable adult to have:

Honestly, I have always been a bit of Grinch when it comes to Christmas. I didn’t grow up celebrating it, and was really overwhelmed by it and all the expensive stuff when I started attending my boyfriend’s (now husband’s) family Christmas. This year I have a 2 year old and seeing Christmas through his eyes has…

Hey, Maria - thanks for organizing these each week. I really look forward to the threads.

That is totally awesome.

And now this is the thread in which we share the things we have as Christmas tree toppers:

Right? Andrew Jackson had a party his first night in the White House, where his family got totally fucked-up and started throwing furniture out of the windows, and Ben Franklin was a whoremongering drug-addict.