Engagement rings are far from mandatory.

Uh, I will include it because my time and labor has an opportunity cost that should be respected. Do you know how long and hard I had to squeeze that charcoal briquette before I had a decent rock?

Due to threats of possible abandonment charges, they were unable to reach out to DHS for help...

the article i read about him a few hours ago had this gold nugget :

He's totally right - most major political accomplishments in the US were made through polite action. The suffragettes convinced everyone with their tasteful garden parties, slavery was ended through a pancake breakfast and handshake photo op, and workers rights were secured through a series of upbeat, catchy slogans.…

I'm 35 and I've been engaged for over a year and I *still* haven't thought about those things! I can't get interested in veils and white dresses when SEASON THREE OF HOUSE OF CARDS IS ON NETFLIX.

The furthest we've gotten in wedding planning is "Let's just go to Sandals so that none of our horrible family members will…

There is no place worse than 42nd and Broadway.

My super awesome mom, after years of working as a successful independent consultant, recently accepted a job as an executive/c-suite level employee at a financial firm. She is the only woman executive. During her first week, another executive told her part of her duties would be to cover the phones when the…

I can cite so many examples of this, but my favorite was the male attorney who asks me to fix the copy machine when it jams. It took me years to finally come up with the proper response, "Ray, I went to the same law school as you, and they still don't offer any office equipment repair classes."

And the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution says federal law supercedes state law...

I have an unreasonable desire for her to attend Wellesley but would be totally on board with Barnard.

As former female Marine I agree with you. Just a quick FYI, humans of a different sex from male have served in The Corp since the beginning, equal footing is anothe matter I agree. The terms are used to keep uniformity and structure. Arriving at Parris Island (1991)I was immediately confronted w/ accents from all…

I really am, to be honest. Part of me always cringes or puckers a bit when I read about control of word usage when it comes to social justice causes. It's not that I don't believe in the cause, I do, but it becomes a situation where we're chasing a ghost.

Yeah, there are definitely people who were just raised (or trained) to use that particular word who often don't mean to be demeaning.

Yes sir. I'm an athlete in the 37th week of my first pregnancy. I thought I'd be able to keep an exercise regimen (contractions and sharp sacral pains rudely relieved me of that notion), and I had to stop (even yoga) a couple weeks ago.

Pregnancy was the strangest thing for me. I was always an athlete and fit, and while I was still active and ate mostly healthy during my pregnancy I was completely thrown by how hard it was for me to deal with my changing body. Even after the baby...I was just shocked by myself and my hormones and how I felt like I…

How would Mitt Romney be President and a grandfather at the same time?

Someone broke Megyn Kelly and I'm loving every. fucking. second.

I am hopeful that they tell a very different story with a similar feel-good vibe and a healthy dose of easter eggs. The concept of Ghostbusters is fertile ground deserving of further exploration.

It's not exactly the most awful thing ever, but my mother kept trying to stick veils on my head when I had made QUITE CLEAR that I did NOT want a veil. Way too Virgin Mary for me (even though I'm Jewish and there's a whole "veiling" thing that goes with it, my rabbi said we didn't have to do the veiling if we didn't…