Right now in the world, I believe poverty and financial inequality are the major issues. I know we all agree that these social issues are huge for us, and I certainly don't expect any of us to be thrilled, but I am happy to see someone take over the church who wants to extend a hand to the poor and spent time with…

"One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise—one of my favorites."

Yeah, the intended audience is not clear.

You know, I saw this response 7 months ago. And I don't know what on earth I could have said to you at the time but your response was so sad and disturbing and I didn't think you could be responding to my comment because I had some of the same issues with breastfeeding and I think some moms can be really hard on other…

I'm looking forward to all the tea party politicians who are obsessed with vagina and uterus getting something like this. I look forward to their penises dripping, burning and aching for years because of their dumbass policies. Do I sound angry?

I think there are lots of musicians who act the same and much worse. The big problem with Mayer is that it's easy to forget he is a musician. He seemed to latch onto the whole celebrity/being seen thing and paid less attention to music. Which drew attention to his love life. And who cares about any musician's love…

Next time she should wear all white.

like Tracy Jordon. She probably also saw a baby give another baby a tattoo and they were both drunk.

I never paid attention to her until she predicted the day my husband would walk out. It was a little spooky. Since then, she does column fillers if nothing much is going on, but when she warns about a particularly tough time, she has always been right. I don't know what to think. I'm a rational, scientific person and…

best of luck to you and your family. I stayed in an area to stick it out despite bad schools, and regret the choice now. Your situation if far worse than mine ever was. I hope you find a place to settle where the kids will be safe and secure in not seeing a gang of pedophiles popping in with rifles from time to time.

I didn't realize the Dems would have the next presidential election already sewn up. This type of spewing on women is exactly how they got into trouble last time. There are more women voters than men. Karl Rove has a hard road ahead of him to get the Republicans to stop talking about vaginas and gay sex and focus on…

Is WBC secretly working for liberal causes? The response to their simple text is to raise money for causes they claim to hate. They have to know this by now. I don't agree with them (who does?), but they do challenge our country's notion of free speech continuously. In an age of the drone, that becomes more urgent.

I had never thought about that, but it's been true in my life as well. In my late teens and throughout my 20's, it was always white men in their 40's. Once I got to 30, it seemed to go backwards and it was younger guys in their early 20's for a bit. Older than that and no guys cause guys my age were obsessed with…

God I'm just glad someone is calling out one of Slate's 'writers'. They're so naive about the world and coddled against reality that I don't think they've ever done their own laundry. These jobs almost have to be nepotism/networking/money connection. I know teenagers who have better insight.

Hey, I have grown up in Tennessee and I can assure you that everyone here is African-American. Every single person.

I'm not only from Tennessee but this idiot is in my district. PLEASE, have at him. Make fun of him all you want. He does it for attention and to make a name for himself (a local equality group is raising money to get his some psychiatric care). Politicians like that usually just compel me to stop looking at them, much…

it's the strangest thing to me that Gerard Depardieu would cast aside his French citizenship to live under a dictator and thugs in Russia. Isn't he going to get sick of having to always be available to Putin when he comes around or wants to horseback ride? It's like moving in with a domineering neighbor who OWNS…

our elderly pediatrician looked at us one day on a visit. We were sleep-deprived, anxious, shaky. He told us to set a watch for five minutes after laying our baby down for the night in her bed. (This only works early with little ones like 2 or 3 months old). He said it would be hard but let her cry but go get her if…

if you look at graphs showing how many Americans are in that bracket, you would see that Mitt is saying the middle class is tiny. What are Americans who make less? And if he's right, then we need to redraw the poverty line of $20,000 or so for a family of four.

This is too easy. When women have to stay home for young children or sick parents, they often feel this same thing. It's natural to feel a bit ashamed or embarrassed or just uncomfortably helpless if your spouse is earning most of the money. When I had to stay home with a troubled kid for two years and out of the…