No, not really.

Nope. Please, tell me when that has ever happened.

There are lot of people who don't understand the concept of "challenge" here. It's not extreme, it's a game to get people to examine their current habits. As someone else pointed out, if someone suggested reading only fiction/non-fiction/poetry books for a year, others would get that it's game and say, "interesting…

This is my favorite argument ever. The threat that privileged people will only be allies if they're coddled enough. That's lovely.

You say that as if "talented" writers all have equal access to the market (publishing houses, editors, best-sellers lists) or that all talented individuals have equal insight into different worlds. Neither of those things is true. Pushing oneself beyond the best-sellers lists to read different perspectives on the…

Its always entertaining to watch the feathers rustling whenever someone suggests that you exclude white men from something, as if they were in danger of being forgotten. I can't imagine that the same level of uproar would exist if the challenge was to only read non-fiction for a year, or only Canadian authors, or…

I never comment online, but this is article is so near an experience I'm currently in the midst of, that I would love to hear anyone's thoughts.

Vote with your dollars,

I've been doing this challenge for my personal reading this year and I'd like to share some of my recent recommendations if anyone's looking for something:

When we were shitty little kids, my mom sat us down and enthusiastically said, "Let's make a list of all your favorite things! What are your most favorite toys and your favorite things to do?" After we excitedly told her these things and she wrote them down, she put the list on the fridge and said, "Now, next time you…

Eh. I hesitate at the "THESE KIDS TODAY" argument. Every single person and every single generation has always thought their generation (or the one immediately after theirs) was the worst one to ever happen.

I am currently working in an office with a male coworker who is on the same level as me. Administratively, I am expected to take on more because he is not as competent. This means I do a majority of answering phones, dealing with clientele and duties that involve filing, database management and even creating…

I feel like this game is trying to say something about the pointlessness of our self-obsession and the brevity of youthful beauty. Aren't we all just skeletons walking around a graveyard taking selfies?

Not bad, but it's worth referencing that Gizmodo already covered the uber-ultimate Facebook creepy-troll tactic, courtesy of legendary Ryan Roy:

As someone who lives near the epicenter of the current measles outbreak (Disneyland), the anti-vaxxers (and there are a lot of them here) drive me insane. What kind of selfish, self-centered douchebag is willing to risk the well-being of their child and the well-being of everyone else because you're not smart enough…

To steal a quote from Jezebel I saw last night, if I can't send my kid anywhere with a PB&J sandwich for public health reasons, I shouldn't be allowed to send them anywhere without an MMRV.

I'm going into work tomorrow and will tell everyone at the water cooler that I read a post by someone called ugh who has a friend who created the second life flying penises.

my friend was one of the people responsible for the flying penises and i will never stop bragging about that.

Not technically a flashback, but sort of in a round about way... The Avatar Wan episode of Legend of Korra was a pretty stellar one in terms of defining the world's larger mythology.