Women do take more sick days, but they typically use them to care for children and elders who are ill.

I don’t know—Meg got beautiful when she got older, so I always saw her as less unattractive and more “hasn’t grown into her looks, plus glasses and braces.”

She's right, it's literally unbelievable.

A daughter referring to her father’s “stamina” isn’t creepy at all. Nosiree.

This is the book that started my career as a nerd so to see a girl that looks like me in the lead role beyond awesome.

Apple has harnessed the power and chaos of Kinja!

omg how much money is the taxpayer giving to this criminal that could be spent on bombs to defend my feelings

Right?? Um, Italy needs people? I know where they can get a whole bunch!

But the military tends to give a flying fuck about enlisted members up and quitting while stationed in a war zone. Didn’t I say she deserves to be in jail? What on God’s green earth is gained by being obstinate to the point of inhumanity while she’s in there?

The most important part of this is the In Service transition piece. Other stories about this kind of buried that and made it seem as if this is something special just for Manning but it’s really a new benefit being given to transgender soldiers in the US under a new administration policy designed to make it easier for…

WOW! I can’t stop laughing at the image of some smug idiot in their parent’s basement congratulating themselves on “setting this ignorant celebrity straight with my superior knowledge” - HA!

Yes but not the “right” kind of people.

The New York Times reports that the point of Fertility Day was to encourage Italians to make more babies but has instead raised furor across the country and incited a closer examination of why the birth rate is so low and what the government actually needs to do to fix it.

i’ve done the math, katie, he’s a dick.

you don’t have to use the html stuff. just paste in the link, suddenly this loading spinner comes on and voila a tweet. here’s another one:

Yea I think she was saying that she feels it’s awkward and antiquated but not offensive like a slur. People had so many opinions on a convo about salad dressing.

its a common mistake, howard, but in actuality, your penis is mean.

I don’t think that there’s any doubt she was on fire, it’s whether it was intentional, accidental, etc.

She also did Celebrity Weight Loss (and seems to have kept it off, so good for her). Am reading her autobiography now and she had a pretty rough life, not helped along by the Ghost of Marcia Brady. If she’s come to terms with it and willing to have fun and cash some checks on it, good for her.