My conversation about homosexuality with my kids, then ages six and four, went like this:

If your response is that the NBA should not get involved in LGBT issues with the All-Star Game:

DONT DRAG CHRIS EVANS INTO THIS

The IOC would feel really bad about this, but in their defense, the bribes were exceptionally large.

Not to be a huge downer (which means I’m about to be a downer) but I’m glad they don’t mention what the rumor was.

“I sure hope — we’re in Bernie Sanders’ backyard here in New Hampshire — I sure hope he intends to show up in his neighboring state”...“There is nothing worse than a debate about debates.”

I thought Carrie Brownstein really nailed it when she tweeted it feels like we lost something elemental, “like an entire color is gone.”

And it's just the most adorably polite tone.

I teach 4th grade, and one of my kiddos asked if he could do sharing on Friday. He brought in his iPad and started to talk about his favorite singer who had recently died. He played “Let’s Dance” for the class and shared pictures that he found on the internet. It was the sweetest thing ever! Most of the class had no…

No matter how old he got, the moment he smiled, it’s like all the years melted away. Like this photo was taken a few days before his death. (By Iman, no less.) What a fantastic smile.

Any excuse to post a Bowie gif I will take.

The gifts to the nanny and the assistant are even more evidence that David Robert Jones was a oner in the best possible way.

I’m from India and while I don’t speak for all Indians, I think you’re welcome to. Honestly most Indian people are delighted that foreigners would like to dress up in traditional Indian wear. A lot of that delight does come from the fact that India suffers from a serious colonial hangover where being “white”-like and…

Aren’t you a pleasant little authoritarian.

This guy, Macklemore? This is the kind of try-hard that I like.

I’ve said it before but every time I see him interact with his daughters, every little in joke, cuddle, embarrassing Dad-ism, long suffering daughter eye roll, every time the pride and love he feels shines from his eyes and radiates from his grin I miss my father so much it’s like a gut punch. Lucky girls, lucky…

Is there a Who Can Be The Worst contest going on that nobody told me about? It would explain sooo much.

Meanwhile in Germany, there were two mass shootings within the last five years, compared to about two thousand in the US in the same time frame.