This is the one for me too, but weirdly I had zero problems with the blank-faced aliens. Instead, I wound up afraid of my own television for an embarrassingly long time - basically until our old tube TV bit the dust and I got a flat screen. I could not be in a dark room with a turned-off television out of fear it…

I saw this article, clicked, and immediately scrolled down to search for this clip in its full and unmitigated glory so thank you, thank you for doing the world’s most important work this afternoon.

My kid is the only boy in ballet class. I don’t think he even notices, and the girls have never said anything or treated him differently. One day the teacher offered him a choice of props to use, and pushed aside a pink one to get a blue one. The mom next to me went, “See, he already knows it’s a girl color, he…

Seriously. I’m a woman with weirdly high testosterone levels for reasons we haven’t pinned down, because it turns out there’s tons of reasons why it might happen. And like you, there were no outward signs - it was just something my doctor stumbled on during blood work for something else and went, “Huh! Weird! Don’t…

My entire family, blessedly, pretty much agrees on politics. That said, we wound up instituting a Politics Jar last Thanksgiving. It’s like a swear jar, but instead anytime someone brings up politics in a non-productive way, they have to put a dollar in the jar and at the end of the week (because all our family visits…

I’m having a secondhand anxiety stroke, myself. 

Where was this advice when I was taking out student loans? Coulda saved myself so much pain.

As a native Californian, the thing that pisses me off the most about this is that they thought nobody would notice how ludicrous a concept it is that they would take an impromptu SEVEN HOUR DRIVE with a pregnant woman and a small child to “escape” a fire four miles away. 

From the Facebook: “The reason we call it, March ‘BEFORE’ our Lives is because we will be marching in front of the anti-gun protestors moments before their main march begins.”

I refuse to believe this isn’t just something we all made up after three too many well drinks. REFUSE.

I really hate that CNN focused on the whining over “sluts,” when Lewis said stuff like this:

This is amazing and I would like to subscribe to your pearl-related newsletter.

I’m pretty sure Harry’s is the first Madame Tussaud’s dummy to ever actually look exactly like its subject.

Me too! I thought, “man, she can’t even exercise right.”

This. I have a family member who has been under conservatorship for about a decade now, and it’s REAL hard to keep it going. He’s able to maintain lucidity only for brief periods of time but he still regularly contests the conservatorship, the courts regularly give him a shot for three months, and he regularly gets…

Ok, but how much is Steve’s hair making?

Let me know when Rupert Everett shows up.

She also seems the most self-conscious, and I imagine thinking back on the coverage of Kim’s pregnancies could have made the experience seem torturous. Good on her for doing this how she needed to.

I lobbied against Vigilant (and companies like them) for years. States fricken LOVE them and their automated license plate readers. Call your state reps, folks, but right now many states expressly hand over this information to third party companies for parking, registration, and car insurance tickets, toll monitoring,…

Breastfed over a year. It definitely gets easier, and not too far in the future for you - the moment they can keep enough food in their stomach to sleep for more than a couple hours is a beautiful thing. You really stop feeling less like a baby feeding machine and more like a human again. Congrats on making it this…