Neither my husband nor I drink, more or less just because... we don’t. It’s not a religious thing, neither of us are alcoholics, nothing like that. We both feel that if someone has an issue with us not drinking, that’s a them problem for them to deal with. But frankly, it seldom gets weird. We drink seltzer and lime…

The weird thing is, this demographic shift is so extreme you actually notice it on the street in Japan. Old people everywhere, and surprisingly few children. And that’s at all times of day and all days of the week, in different cities.

One year, my cousin and I decided to dress up a little more than usual for Christmas with the family, just for fun. Neither of us picked anything scandalous or in any way unusual- we both wore dresses and heels. Her father (my uncle) proclaimed in front of the whole family that we looked like we could “both work the…

Make America Grate Again

Truly, this is the Stupidest Timeline.

Mine were super irregular (like, vanish for six months at a go then be on for two straight weeks irregular) and I vividly remember sitting in freshman English, shifting my posture in my chair, and suddenly feeling the fucking tide go out. RIP underwear, pants, and chair within seconds. Just... zero to sixty. I had to…

I got different doctors. :)

This. I was on the pill in my teens to deal with the Hell Periods, long before I needed it for contraception. I do not miss five days a month of bleeding through a Super tampon every couple of hours, plus debilitating pain for at least three days. My doctors felt this was all perfectly normal, but I begged to differ.…

It’s kind of awe-inspiring to read an essay this long by someone who has, apparently, never had a longtime frenemy.

Most people who are too old to have grown up with/on the internet are totally unable to deal with the internet. The inability of older generations to separate fact from opinion and their tendency to trust what they read or watch online is a serious fucking problem. I’m dealing with it in my own family as several…

Going after Vietnamese and other South Asian immigrants is a great way for the Orange Trash Fire to make sure he loses Wisconsin in 2020, assuming he even makes it to another election. We have a substantial South Asian population here (mostly Hmong) and they’ve been an integral part of our citizenry for decades.…

Mid-sized town, not mid-sized city.

No white woman would ever be arrested and sent to Riker’s without bail for sitting on the floor with her one-year-old. This is completely unacceptable.

With a little Firefly sprinkled on top.

Also, Soros would have just turned fifteen when the war ended, and was only ten when Hungary joined the war as an Axis power.

We’re done pretending she’s a viable candidate now, right?

Not weird. I’m delighted to be married, but the actual wedding was something to politely endure. I was never interested in weddings and that didn’t really change when it was mine. I wanted a small gathering of close family and friends, but my husband’s family wanted the big wedding... so we did that. (Bonus: Their…

Maybe don’t use the words “big leap forward” to describe relations with China. Just... maybe.

Exactly- well said. Different laws will apply depending on the exact circumstances of each case, but crossing state lines is definitely not a way to avoid prosecution. It would instead potentially open the perpetrators up to a whole new additional class of charges at the federal level.

All this ruling means is that, like most interpersonal violent crime, FGM is a state issue. There’s no federal murder statute in the US either, for example- instead, all 50 states (and all US territories) have made it illegal on their own. The disgrace here is not that a Michigan judge properly defined it as criminal…