Mama June, Sugar Bear, Honey Boo Boo . . . are these people of any relation to Br'er Rabbit?

She's made it pretty clear several times she's doing The View for the money. I don't really know her persona outside of The View, but she's at times looked like the clerk at a drugstore that cannot hide how little they want to be there. She used to be on Hollywood Squares, so I don't think her career had exactly…

Is this feminism?

I've been tested for celiac several times because I have some of the neurological but not gastrointestinal symptoms of it and because I have immediate family members who do have it. The first time I was tested the results came back positive. I went gluten-free and didn't feel any different. Later on a better blood…

I live in Williamsburg, and frankly I don't see the appeal of visiting Colonial Williamsburg. Now Williamsburg itself I love—great town, great climate, nice college in town. But even living here I've always found the idea of what Colonial Williamsburg is to be confusing. It's supposed to represent a certain point in…

I'm not sure inhaling alcohol in such a high concentration is a good idea.

Religious rights should not include a knife and someone else's body.

I don't know that they're offensive as much as they are "what-are-you-doing-with-your-life" clothing.

She does have an engaging personality, but I don't see how her points would appeal to people who don't already agree with her. In fact, I think her arguments are illogical. Men produce sperm that dies and is excreted whether it's ejaculated or not, just as women produce eggs that are excreted and die. The core…

So, there's the French part of Canada that seems to produce sort of icy people. There's the English part that seems to produce really nice people. Is there some third part of Canada that's been unknown until now?

I meant the stuff you see later at night like 48 hours, etc., not the evening news.

Any extra info we don't know on the infamous, "Matt . . . Matt . . . you're being glib," Tom Cruise/Matt Lauer exchange? Did Lauer regret saying that Tom obviously was well-informed or was that just a patronizing line?

"I'm giving up my life to be with you, aren't I?"

I get/have ASMR, but the videos designed for it have never worked for me. I'm always on the search for something that works. Stuff like this:

How about, "Hi, I just wanted to make sure I didn't offend you somehow because I noticed you might have been upset with me last week."

That news reporter needs to work on his English, all I could make out at the end was "Haagen Daz Toyota." What's that supposed to mean?

The writer has successfully inverted 1950s messages about women ("a ketchup bottle so easy a woman can open it") to being about men. Here's one random paragraph with dude exchanged for gal, and man exchanged for woman:

I miss the sound effects you could turn on in Mac OS 9 that actually used stereo sound relating to what part of the screen you were clicking on. I miss OS 9's collapsable control strip; the colors made it easier to quickly determine what I was looking for versus the sterile glyphs now in the OS X menu-bar. I miss…

The passive voice is helpful. You need a balance. A book written in a completely active voice would be halting and unpleasant. I think you need a little breathing space in sentences. I haven't studied writing, and I wish I could take a class in it, but I think some of these things are a matter of feel. In the example…

As an asexual (so not typical) white male (I am XY, even had it checked because of how atypical I am, but I don't really feel XY though not XX either) who has voted for Obama twice, I would say nothing talked about in this article is as black and white as it's made out to be. There are a lot of disenfranchised people…