I was halfway through this post before I realized that I was saying Flatzilla in my head. The name is so stupid that changing it into some weird Godzilla mash-up makes more sense.

Pixie cuts, FTW!

I was just discussing Facundo the Great in my office the other week. I love StoryCorps.

My fourth grade teacher insisted I was pronouncing tortilla wrong. She insisted that the tilla should be pronounced the same as in flotilla. She did this to a child whose last name is the Mexican equivalent of Smith.

I worked in politics and went to a Catholic university. Where to even begin...

Exactly. Notre Dame has no Greek life. That obviously hasn't stopped problems with sexual assault or the way the University handles it.

My favorite, and sadly no longer usable, way to carry condoms was a plastic case I got a gay bar with a cartoon sperm on the outside. I loved that thing.

My 7 year-old doesn't weigh 40 lbs. Granted, she's tiny, but I can't even imagine.

If businesses are at risk for getting their asses sued (and Ledbetter makes it easier for them to get their asses sued), does that no mean that they are less likely to engage in the practice in the first place? Is Ledbetter the only solution? Of course not. But of course it helps.

Unfortunately, because we don't know the heritage of many blacks living in the United States. The slave trade will do that. Also, those involved in the slave trade would have most closely identified with a tribe rather than a country that probably didn't exist at the time they were kidnapped.

Yes, physical characteristics are biological. However, those biological characteristics are not race. Race is a social construct created to classify people. There is no genetic basis for race.

This is where your argument falls apart: it wasn't child relocation. There was no child when she relocated. She was pregnant when she moved to New York. The baby was born in New York. And he's not winning most of the arguments. The New York appeals panel overturned the family court ruling. Custody arguments will take…

I can only imagine. Steroid inhalers are the only way I've been able to control my asthma, and I have tried many different treatments in the last twenty years. Luckily, I never played sports at such a high level to have to worry about it.

The person who had the original idea (CNN) accurately reported it. There was nothing magical about figure skating. It was (shocking!) modern medicine that helped his asthma. Unsurprisingly, in the hijacking, things got misrepresented.

As someone with asthma, I take issue with the fact that asthma attacks somehow disqualified him from competing in other sports. If you read the CNN article, you can see that the cold in the ice rink also exacerbated his asthma, a common problem for asthmatics. There was nothing special about skating, but the…

Changing discharge can mean lots of things, but if you're worried a trip to the gyno never hurts. But not getting your period has nothing to do with it. The vagina is self-cleaning, but it's the natural lubrication and not the menses that does it.

Nah, you're good. I have a Mirena and just had an appointment with the gyno and she was genuinely surprised I still bled regularly.

This seems like a chicken/egg problem to me. The Olympics is the premiere event for many sports and makes every sport highly visible. It's hard to convince someone to compete in a winter event when they won't have a chance to compete in the Olympics.

No, slopestyle (or any snowboard event) did not have this problem because in 1991 the IOC mandated that any new sports must include women.

But you can't be kicked out for doing things that the law says you can't be kicked out for. The law specifically states that it is illegal to kick someone out for breastfeeding, not that breastfeeding is legal. There is a difference.