I turn off the alarm on the phone under my pillow. Then I walk across the room to the real alarm clock. Finally, I walk back to bed and go back to sleep.

Fake it 'til you make it! My therapist told me the same about smiling.

I thought 'crusty' meant 'old'.

Exactly. I never questioned my gender because I didn't have to — it was as obvious as being born with ten fingers and ten toes.

Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act because Coy can use the boy's bathroom, the gender-neutral faculty bathrooms, or the nurse's bathroom, and because she's allowed to wear girls' clothes and be referred to as a girl.

I don't think Crusty = Nasty, though. It's not about 'doing the right thing', it's about not knowing there was something wrong in the first place. Like I said previously, people are less sensitive to recognizing racism if they haven't experienced it firsthand all their lives. "Crusty old white" people are just the…

My bedroom walls elephant grey as well. It's soothing.

Cute, but FIERCE!

That's probably a made up number. Anyways, taxes don't fund the portraits.

She actually said "no crusty old white dude or woman" which I took to mean the majority of people in the highest positions of power in the courts and government.

Penny may not be talking about morality. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that white people are just not as sensitive to subtle acts of racism and prejudice as non-whites. Because I never grew up black, I don't automatically pick up on some of the racism directed at blacks, so I'd be delusional if I thought I would be…

Some of the responses to this article make me think that person will never, ever realize how cruel she was. As long as people demonize feminists, as long as people believe the woman's sexual history has any relevance to her rape, we aren't going anywhere.

The cat looks exactly like my cat, but dirtier. My kitty's just as vicious though — he regularly beats up our 100 lb dog.

"pet peeves in writing"

Yeah, but "would of" doesn't even make sense in a sentence that requires "would have". What do they think they're saying?

I'd be cheering on the hawks if they built their nest near me, I guess.

"would of" is one of my biggest pet peeves in writing. It's like nails scratching down a blackboard.

I have a robin nest under an eaves thingy and the parents come back every year to lay eggs and raise their chicks. They had four last summer. I worry about them because we also have hawks.

Yeah, eff the subsidies. We need to start taxing, European-style.

It costs more in Canada, too, I think. Maybe I'm just comparing two very different cities, but the price difference between visiting-in-laws American McDonald vs. Toronto McDonald was confusing.