It’s happened to me. I once fell and twisted an ankle so badly that I lay on the street, IN the street, unable to get up. It was Sunday morning. I was nicely dressed to go to church on Palm Sunday. It was a quiet residential street in a nice area. And at least three cars drove around me before one stopped, and the…

Does anybody else remember when Cheney’s wife was interviewed on The Daily Show? She trotted onstage with a smile and plopped a Darth Vader action figure on Jon Stewart’s desk- presumeably to show what a good sport she was to be in on the joke. Then she went on in the interview to prove herself just as icy-evil as her…

Surprised not to see Saudi Arabia in the list of countries with the most executions.

You were really piled on in comments here, but you responded with grace in many cases and demonstrate the wisdom to admit your mind has changed. So for that I salute you, you have my respect.

In my feed, your comment thread was first. And while you didn’t openly say that it was okay for the mom to dump her kid in a bookstore, you did question why an employee of said store found it necessary to send the kid back to his mother’s care. That, and many of your subsequent comments, suggested that you are fine…

First sighting of Pinkham’s Law!

A member of my extended family did exactly that- got married on her 18th birthday, had sex for the first time that night. However, she’s definitely come out ahead of the game- that was more than twenty years ago and she’s still happily married. Personally, I can’t imagine being married to the guy I was gaga over in…

His point was that there were other non-hormonal options, and that it was a woman’s responsibility and not the goverment’s, and wow I’ll just show myself out now. *sadface of consternation*

The subway ads in my town include one for a cosmetic surgery clinic shilling vaginaplasty, and feature a photo of a smirking Real Housewife type. (Presumably the invisible thought-bubble over her glossy head would read “my pussy is sooooo tight!”) That ad is offensive. The Thinx ones are a’ight.

When I was dating my husband-to-be, we once had a rip-snortin’ argument over this very dichotomy. My lead-in story was that Japan had long forbidden birth control pills, but had enthusiastically okayed the use of erectile dysfunction drugs, which was a glaringly sexist postion. And my beloved said without a hint of…

Not all transvestites are drag queens!

I’m so sorry about your uncle. The nurses at the local breast clinic told me that the disease is rare for men, but tends to be more fatal, simply because they don’t realise they’re sick until it’s too late. I never even found the lump that could have killed me: a random (and earlier than scheduled) mammogram saved my…

I’m so sorry for your loss, and both sad and glad that your experience is leading to awareness.

Everyone is aware that women can die of breast cancer. I wish with all my heart that more people were aware that men can die from it, too. Last month I completely shocked someone by mentioning that: and this was someone who had just that morning proudly participated in a Run for the Cure event. He had no idea that men…

Amber Rose is so gorgeous that she even looks good bald. But “toughest bald babe” in America? Tell that to a chick with cancer.

Hey now, Sophia (“everything you see I owe to pasta”) Loren’s got no reason to be envious. She herself said of the photo that the look she was directing at Mansfield’s cavernous cleavage was more fearful that the lady was going to fall right out of that dress onto her place setting.

Speaking to staff (or indeed, anyone) with politeness is not the same as kissing ass.

Recognising legals rights regarding children and property, and financial obligations, in the messy event that you no longer love each other.

Just cc Dan Savage on this to get the ball rolling. He and his loyal readers made Santorum a thing. Not the odious politician of the same name, but the “frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.” (I’m so proud to say I typed that out from memory.)

Not just my favourite Gwen Stefani video, but one of my all-time favourite videos period. Gorgeous fever dream, Gwen at her delicious peak.