Is it weird that I’m almost as creeped out that the person Panayiotou plagiarized his eulogy from as I am by him? I don’t really think of myself as superstitious, but writing a eulogy for your not dead wife and marking it with a specific date in the future is bonkers even as a writing exercise.

Couldn’t kill his wife himself, couldn’t write his wife’s eulogy himself.

Who in the hell let George Zimmerman go to South Africa??

THIS. We. Have. Google. Now.

Sigh. Do you not see that what they were doing was racist? There is a HUGE difference between saying “I’ve never had this kind of food before, can you tell me about it?” and saying “You have Lo Mein, right?” and then asking for it over and over again. It sounds like the servers were way nicer to them than they should…

That would be nice of you. But do you see why it shouldn’t be the responsibility of Japanese people running a Japanese restaurant to explain to white people that they aren’t the same as Chinese people?

The planet fitness lady was a guest just going to hang up and retrieve her purse. That’s it. Anything else untoward about her behaviour is either the result of a smear campaign, or else the result of being old and growing up trans in a society that paints us as the film above does. When your only role models come in…

There’s an adage that’s useful in distinguishing the difference between someone who has been given some manner of misogynistic fetish and someone who is just plain transgender:

A fetish involves how you want to go to bed with someone. Gender identity is about what you want to wake up out of bed as. Daily living is…

Between my freshman and sophomore years in college, my high school sweetheart and I had a terrible breakup. She got pregnant, had an abortion, and our relationship just couldn’t take the strain. She was gone and my heart was broke, and bad. So I freaked the fuck out, started partying like there was no tomorrow, and…

My story is second hand:

The continent of Europe is so wide, mein herr...you know I couldn’t cross it if I tried, mein herr, but I do what I can, inch by inch, step by step, man by maaan!

I once was in a relationship with this Yorkshire transplant who charmed me senseless, but he turned out to be way less charming and dumped me without even wanting to tell me why. Double whammy: I moved in with his dumb ass and he kicked me out with no place to go besides my mom’s. I banned everything even remotely…

My (then) boyfriend’s best friend, who thought I wouldn’t recognize his voice on the phone, called me to let me know his asshat friend was two-timing me with another chick at a bar near my house. I went there, spotted them, approached the table, grabbed a glass bottle of Coke off a waiter’s tray and hit him over the…

A year ago, I hid my son’s 18 year old girlfriend at my place for a week because her dad, the abuser, didn’t know where I live. We called the cops, who gave us the old “it’s your word against his” even though she had bruises and abrasions. Fucking cops. I insisted they take pictures of her injuries — which wasn’t…

While I highly discourage anyone (male or female) from trying to score illegal substances while in countries with far stricter laws and harsher punishments regarding such things...

While I was in the Air Force and doing patrols in Bagram, Afghanistan, I scored raw hashish dip from a local who had to be 12 years old, 13…

I'm somewhat impressed that the Chief went on record saying that the officer messed up (the Chief is the one who said that the officer lied on his report, that he violated protocol, and that he had enough evidence to arrest but didn't). Hopefully this will lead to a significant settlement to be held in trust for those…

My abuser was POSITIVE that I was cheating on him with the absolute certainty that one gets when fueled with alcohol and assorted drugs and fed inflammatory information by the morons that you are out to all hours of the night with. He came from a long line of abusers who followed the exact same pattern and how I wish…

What is will making the officer’s name public do other than put him and his family in danger? He screwed up and has since done the right thing and resigned. Does he deserve to receive death threats? Should his family feel unsafe because of this? I hope the answer to this for anyone reading is no.

“Forgive me please, but that’s what you get when you play with people’s emotions.”

We have an old geezer in our department who likes to recommend rejection of papers by people who aren’t established yet in the field, especially women, because obviously if they are just starting out, they don’t know anything yet and can’t be trusted. And women shouldn’t even be doing science anyway. He’s about 85…