This is a weird thing to say, I know....but it's worth watching. A total mindfuck, but compelling as all get-out. The implications, the idea of one person's dignity having more value than another's, and whether that dignity is worth more than yet another person's actual life. Our collective inability to avert our eyes…

If you were a sentient tree, you would be what my nightmares are made of.

Agreed. Also, you know that old cliche about "If you want to know how a man is going to treat you, pay attention to the way he treats his mother" thing? Utter bullshit. Pay attention to the way his father treats his mother. In my (totally anecdotal) experience, this is a much better indicator of what type of partner a…

As my grandma used to say, there's a lid for every pot and an ass for every seat.

Wrong Chris, too. Just wrong all around.

And make sure not to take your frustration at being responsible for every single holiday-related errand or task out on your husband or kids! You wouldn't want to ruin their Christmas with your uppity feminist "equal division of household responsibilities" mumbo jumbo! Suck it up and bake more cookies! The gratitude on…

Oh god, yes. The fucking paper towel moms. So unflappable. Your child just blew up your whole kitchen, and you just stand there, shaking your head with that benevolent Mommy smile and reach for a sheet of Bounty. Or you're vacuuming your pristine white carpet (it's always white carpet) in that tastefully appointed…

I know a family who's 3 year old son's life was saved by a heart transplant. They know very well that they got the donor heart because of another family's unspeakable tragedy, and they are grateful to that child's family for donating the heart every single day of their lives.

Oh, no question about it, it's just that I kind of feel like I'm totally spinning wheels at this point. Just because I've been running around like a lunatic, that doesn't mean I've actually accomplished anything I wanted to get done this weekend, which is the exact opposite of being "productive."

My kids saw me dusting the mantle once, and no lie, my son's eyes lit up and he said "Ooh, yay! Are friends coming over?"

I feel you. This is Day 4 of a 4-day weekend for my kids (NJ Teacher's Convention) and I've given up on trying to do anything. My house looks like a bomb went off, there are overflowing laundry baskets in almost every room, you could make napalm in my bathtub and there is an excellent chance that if I don't get off my…

You don't know that they aren't spectacularly wealthy with space for the cats and caregivers

Jesus. Something kind of similar happened to me about a decade ago. Some lady walked up to me in the Wawa and started screaming at me as I was pouring my coffee. Evidently, she thought I had taken her parking space. Maybe I did, the Wawa parking lot at 8am is a verifiable logjam clusterfuck, but it wasn't intentional.…

I don't hate it at all, I actually really like it. But it's the one book I can never read all the way through to my children, because I'm a sobbing, slobbering mess 3/4 of the way through.

I mean, I definitely see your point, but then I also think that the way people respond to Idris Elba is almost identical to the way they respond to, say, Tom Hiddleston. Is it fetishization or is it that women just really dig British dudes with formidable acting talent that aren't afraid to put on ridiculous helmets…

Ray and Janay Rice know people will probably spend Halloween 2014 dressed like them in their worst moment,

I don't know if you are being facetious, but I've lived in NJ since I was 18, and it is creepy as fuck. I mean, I actually love it, which is why I'm still here, but there is some weird ass shit that goes around these parts.

My current sneakers: