If she's drinking before the kids even show up, she never would've made it to November let alone June.

I agree. The judgment I reserve for the Australian couple isn't that they wanted to abort the fetus, but that they just left him there with someone who doesn't have the resources to take care of his special needs after he was born. They may as well have left him to die in the wilderness for all they knew or cared. …

Ugh the comments on the GoFundMe are infuriating me. The anti-abortion crowd is out en masse.

Are you really expected to buy things for a couple that is rich enough to send iPads as wedding invitations?

I present to you VITAMIN PIGGY! I made it myself! Guaranteed to make you feel more healthful (because "healthful" is a way better adjective than "healthy")!

Sorry to add to a pile-on, that wasn't my intent!

Let's extend the analogy, then: I think they committed war crimes, but don't hate Americans (although I hate that these things were perpetrated in my name). There are some Americans who don't think war crimes were committed. Iraqis are more directly affected by these war crimes, so yes, they hate Americans (although…

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, I'm too lazy to read the bajillion comments, so you can dismiss I suppose, but there's a big difference between thinking a government is committing atrocities and hating a group of people. I think the Bush administration committed war crimes, but that doesn't mean I hate…

The lyric is actually "flipping your fins", not flapping. I know because I subjected my poor older brother to The Little Mermaid about 9 times a day for the span of the few years between Little Mermaid and Lion King. (I got more into Aladdin as I got older).

I read this entire comment in Eddie Izzard's voice, so thank you for that.

Word Crimes was the highlight of my month.

One thing I read when my doggy was a puppy was to put something sweet and tasty like peanut butter on your hands and let the dog lick it off. This way he/she learns that hands (and other body parts) are for kisses, not bites. I have no idea if that worked in itself, but my dog is not a biter as a grown-up doggy, so…

As someone with flat, wide, but otherwise small feet, and plantar fasciitis pain in my heels that necessitates a small wedge (no more cute flats for me), I always have a hard time finding shoes that don't make my right big toe cry knuckle in agony. Even the most otherwise comfy shoes aggravate this one sensitive…

It really is crazy. I'm a grown adult and the only social media that uses my full name is LinkedIn. I find it utterly crazy that parents aren't monitoring these things.

"Wish I Was Here"

I think this is a problem that younger kids aren't thinking about. I'm of an age where I had internet for most of my life (I'm 29, we got internet in our home when I was 10), but I feel pretty lucky that I grew up before its full cultural saturation. I teach middle schoolers now and they all — literally, almost all…

PIGGY! DAT PIG!

Ben Kingsley is going to play "Ay, the Grand Vizier to King Tutankhamun" in Spike TV's upcoming series Tut. [TheWrap]

It works pretty well, though I haven't quite perfected it yet. The leaf has a minty quality to it so muddling it with actual mint is pretty tasty.

You can pry mojitos from my cold, dead hands. I'm growing stevia leaf on my balcony for the express purpose of muddling it with mint and mojitoing the shit out of my summer.