The first time my dad got drunk, he was 8. His family had a big party and there was a bowl of champagne-soaked strawberries, and someone thought it would be cute to give him one. Well, he really liked it, and ate about the half the bowl, then passed out under the table. The next day, he told his mom he thought he was…

I feel like...just model responsible drinking for your 9yr old? My parents started letting us have a small glass of wine once a week when we hit 13, which I think is also good.

I don't know why, but this made me a giggle a lot. Perhaps the hashtag compared with your username.

Today my thesis advisor asked me if I was making time for exercise. The Jewish Moms are everywhere.

As long as you acknowledge you didn’t invent it, I think you’re good :)

I can’t decide if the Christmas I ate takeout Chinese while watching Annie Hall or a home-cooked (non-Chinese food) meal followed by going out to a political drama (Frost/Nixon) was more Jewish. Or the Christmas I did a LES tenements walking tour, ate dumplings and pickles, made latkes, then saw the Muppets...maybe…

Also is Andrew the very red angry man in his cover photo, or the less-red angry man in the cover photo?

He read Maus and thought Jews were literally mice who could talk.

We are, indeed, deeply confused aliens who landed in the desert many millennia ago.

Once, on a winter break vacation, my family and I were in a Chinese restaurant (in Hawaii), and like, midway through our meal, realized it was December 25th. We Jew so hard we don’t even have to try.

Do you acknowledge that a definite pattern of specific behavior exists among a definitely specific ethnic group called Jews?

Yeah...while there are crappy teachers, I find it’s often teachers fighting (or resigning themselves to) crappy systems, but wanting better for their kids.

Right? Like, yes, some slave owners were LESS BAD than others, and I’d even buy an argument that some people who grew up in a slave-owning household and then continued to own slaves themselves but were “nice” weren’t necessarily evil people themselves, but no matter how “nice” you were, you were still part of an…

I feel like there have to be a decent number of teachers in Texas who are pretty upset about this shit too.

Haha, I grew up in an extended family of lawyers.

The modcloth reviews are really helpful when reviewers list their size; I usually have success when I wait for an item to be well-reviewed.

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“You didn’t make clear it was anecdotal bc you only said it was anecdotal.”

I got a short haircut recently and whenever I wear my rain boots that look like combat boots, I get a looooot of attention from women.

Men assuming a woman might dislike men bc *she’s* ugly = an example of men being the worst. Men who get bitter about women generally do so bc they have been rejected. Women who get bitter at men generally do so not bc they have been rejected, but bc they have been mistreated, abused, assaulted, etc.