It helps if you can have white people with you at all times. My girlfriend from law school, who is black, used to have me drive her Range Rover anytime we were going somewhere together. I didn't believe her when she said she would get pulled over for driving it until she picked me up at a bar one very late night. I…

Yeah. Back then I was hanging around with people that were SERIOUSLY trying to break into the industry, and as such were hanging around at after hours clubs in between auditions and what not. JEBUS, the stories I heard from back then! I don't see how anyone can survive the entertainment industry, what with all of…

Whitney's brother introduced her to drugs and has said so in an interview with Sister 2 Sister magazine. So let's just all take that in before folks come in here with the "Bobby made her do it," part 2 narrative.

Folks in this comment section who are complaining about how race relations are being portrayed:

If I could star this a thousand times, I would. Holy cow.

Another really great piece, Greg. This managed to be funny, sad and rage-inducing all at once.

"Free hack: Since starting college, I've kept a pretty strict policy of only running indoors on a treadmill, or while engaged in a group activity like soccer or basketball. If you must run, do so in groups, in athletic gear, and preferably with people who follow the first rule of this guide. "

Um....wow. That's…

I don't mean to brag, but I don't have to have sex with unconscious people to have sex.

I am quickly amassing an amazing library of left shark gifs.

This is what I've never understood about anti-vaxxers. I mean, Jesus Christ, guys.

Here is the thing (and I'm sure I'm about to piss a lot of people off, but I'm going to say it anyway): Both of my sons are autistic. They were autistic before they had their shots, and we saw signs before they were vaccinated. We vaccinated them anyway, because vaccines do not cause autism.

i have spent the entire fifteen years of my working life as a special needs teacher, home therapist, and as a SENCO the last three years. For the first nine years I worked at Johns Hopkins with children who had the most severe forms of autism, and I watched in horror as otherwise intelligent and reasonable parents got…

You know what's annoying about the vaccines cause autism line? Anti-vaxxers act like autism is a fate worse than death. I mean, obviously, no one wants their kid to have to face a word that is not kind to neuro-atypical people and I know that it is a spectrum with more difficulties on one end than on the other, but…

I love me some Phil Plait. He can usually be counted on to display some compassion and thoughtfulness where it is sorely needed.

Totally with you on your sentiment, just think it's important to acknowledge that those people don't reflect all of us, just like extremists don't represent all Christians, Muslims, etc. The vast majority of non-believing folk I know hate those people just as much as everyone else does.

if religion got out of the business of politics and morality-legislation (while being tax-free) i would be more on board with this... but the religious influence politics and make policies based on their religion that affect us all - as a non-believer, i don't tolerate that.

My BFF and I met at our Catholic college, we had both mostly given up our religion by that point, but we had the history/tradition. Fast forward 10 years, her (now) husband was raised atheist and it's always amazing to watch his face as she describes some of the intricacies of the Catholic faith to him. He gets this…

I was raised in an atheist household (I'm 25 now), and I'm always surprised at how uncommon it is. I know lots of atheists, but all of them came to their atheism as teenagers or adults. I don't know anyone else with atheist parents.