I'm kind of surprised they'd even be the first to do this publicly/professionally. I saw a porn short of identical twin girls sexing the same guy, and everything Tracie just described, they did. Nude embrace, sucking the same dick, but no action between them. The furthest it got is when one girl grabbed her…

My friend took a sociology of sexuality class while we were in college, and while she's not always the best judge on courses, I ended up really glad I didn't take it as well from what she told me. The professor was visiting and not that great, and they watched the entirety of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" in…

I love Joe Biden, but Hubert H. Humphrey is forever America's Happy Warrior. Joe Biden is America's drunk uncle.

Voter ID laws affect high transition, high mobility populations like students and low-income people because the address on their IDs might not match their actual residence. That means they'd be turned away at the polls for trying to vote in their precinct. For some reason, I don't see people on either side of the…

In Japan they serve pasta with "neapolitan" sauce, which I tried a few times thinking it looked reddish and normal, like tomato sauce, but it was always inexplicably gross to me. It turns out it's just ketchup mixed with mayonnaise. Totally not traditionally Japanese, obviously, but it's a pretty common "Western…

I also yelled "NOOOOOOO!" It made my boyfriend come from the other room to see what happened, and he wasn't appropriately devastated when I told him.

Thank you! I was a daycare worker after high school and saw firsthand the poor salaries (and poor qualifications expected) of daycare workers, who do one of the most important jobs ever. My parentheses might actually be hiding the fact that many very, very unskilled women were daycare workers in my location. I'm…

I sing the words "Cats and kitties" to the tune of "Ass and Titties" by DJ Assault.

"bring her own Bible, and will cry sometimes, her shoulders shaking."

I think Video Games (the recorded version) is a hauntingly beautiful song, and it's unfortunate that this is the general public's introduction to LDR. Maybe she sucks as a performer, maybe she just wasn't ready for a gig like SNL. I don't know. I'm just a little taken aback that everyone seems so personally…

I just found a young black kitty as a stray a week ago, and it's led me to kind of understand the prejudice against black cats. A lot of the time I can't even freaking see her unless she's opening her mouth to meow, then I see a big pink mouth and eyes and she looks demonic. She's also kind of an asshole though,…

Or the largest cohort would be women who suffer from vulvodynia, vulvar vestibulitis, or vaginismus, all conditions that make intercourse incredibly painful and in many cases impossible. By some estimates vulvudynia affects up to ten percent of women in their lifetimes, is poorly researched, many gynos don't even…

I appreciate your sentiment that most of us can't know what she's going through, but you keep repeating that she's an illegal immigrant and that's just not the case. She's a legal refugee brought here by Catholic Charities, one of several major refugee-placing orgs in the states. I work for an organization that…

Just a correction: She seems to be a legal refugee brought here by Catholic Charities, not an illegal immigrant. Granted, refugees face enormous obstacles in relocation including lack of knowledge of local laws and customs, but I also agree with you that she shouldn't be granted custody.

It's not Minneapolis at all. It's Red Wing, Minnesota, 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis. Also, I don't understand what your "that is all" is about. Minneapolis gave you Hubert Humphrey, the progressive majority whip Senator largely responsible for passing the civil rights act as well as progressive Representative…

A tanuki is a real animal! They're kind of like raccoon dogs. I used to see them dead by the road all the time, but rarely alive in the wilderness. They look nothing like the statues/illustrations of them in folklore with the giant testicles and hats.

Clowns may not be as universally reviled in different cultures. When my friend from Japan was visiting a while back, my boyfriend took her to this local festival I couldn't go to because I was working. When we were all home, she showed me the pictures she took that day on her camera and as she clicked through one of…

"Apple Store seems like a great place to work if you are capable of stowing your ill will, cynicism, frustration and impatience—i.e. humanity—into a little box at the start of each work day...."

On Minnesota as a progressive state: There's a pretty big urban-rural divide in ideology, and like most other states in 2010, the state house and senate took a huge swing right. Bachmann represents a very white, suburban/exurban district that skirts around the cities, populated by a lot of people who are both…