They already use tampons for the same purpose. Boots-on-the-ground are nothing if not innovative.

It also has a commonly-understood emotional weight that the author used intentionally.

You use the word "gaunt" to describe her, in an article decrying shaming people for their size? Nice work, lady.

Meme Roth might actually be them most loathsome person I've ever seen speak. I place her in a category lower than the worst homophobes, racists, and religious nutbags because at least in their twisted universes they are actually operating from a sense of right and wrong. Meme Roth is just mean, and she does what she…

Except that there is, Jane is the object of nasty gossip. Part of her strength is that she is willing to absorb it, to protect June from being the object of even nastier gossip.

I'm wondering if I go to Thailand and find a cute drawing instructor with a man-bun and a goatee, can I keep him?

For real. 10/10. Would bang.

I think that's the point though, that "beauty" is not a binary thing and that everyone — including men — should be encouraged to recognize the many facets of the word, and find it wherever they can.

You're really overthinking this. Its a man telling a story about his friend, and why he thinks she's a beautiful human being. He even says explicitly that she is very ordinary and not beautiful-looking, but that it is her heart that makes her beautiful. Testimonials are fairly common narratives, I don't think it…

I categorically disagree. What if she wants to make games for a living? Its perfectly acceptable to you that talent is bullied out of the workforce? There are alternatives to gritting your teeth and just getting on with it; loudly speaking out about it and becoming a rallying cry for other women to also speak out …

Yeah, I'd figure its a wheat/chaff thing, there are probably some nuggets in there worth reading.

How have I not been following Ricky Gervais all this time? I'm a jerk.

The translator is American.

I love that song! I drunkenly serenaded my now-ex-boyfriend with it playing on a jukebox in a dive bar in Boston. We dated for two years.

Is the fake-lesbian thing still in? It seems very... four years ago or so. Where the hot guys making out at? That seems to be on the uptick (finally, thank goodness!)

Someone posted this on twitter yesterday:

I'm also from MA and have no skin in the game (or in the Pats at all, I really could not care less) and even I was sitting up straight and watching by the end of it all. What a disaster. It reminded me of my days at BC rooting for us against Virginia Tech or Syracuse. *womp womp*

*high-five*

Two nights ago I dreamt I was in a dysfunctional relationship with Justin Bieber.

Hey man, I fall squarely into Red Sox fandom territory simply by geography alone so I'm well acquainted (until the last few years) to choking in the clutch. Still, a total bummer for them.