I want a Justice Ginsberg action figure for my kids. There aren't enough positive female action toys. They've worn the shit out of their Trinty (from Matrix) and we tried to mod a Barbie into a Kari Byron doll with miserable results. The Nancy Pearl librarian doll is just.... okay, but the field of female action…

Meet some new white Americans [waves]. We come in many kinds and there are quite a lot of us who are posting about how fucked up this situation is. We are angry, we are enraged, we are saddened, and we are disgusted by what the Ferguson police have done and as well as how the American media has reported it.

Not in my experience. For me, it was smothering, a violating of personal boundaries, and a real free-will killer. I'm not Asian, but I grew up being told that I was pretty much my mom's safety net/social security/savings account. If I was given that choice, I might feel differently about the whole thing, but since it…

I'm a fucking fantastic parent in Scandinavia!!!! Yes!!! Take THAT, you bitchy New Jersey moms at the park!!!!!

Irony.

A guy once did this in front of me at a bar. I don't think my drink-splash reflex made him feel very relaxed.

I was keeping up with the conversations and — huzzah!! — even made some people nod in agreement. Everything was going well until I said that I stayed at home. Then everything I said — every point, every opinion, every single bit of data — was invalidated. It's not like I compared diaper brands when everyone else was…

And the wiping of snot EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Mazel tov!

Family is important — to an extent. It is not important if every conversation ends with you thinking "WTF?!?" or "For the love of Jove, are we going through this AGAIN?!" and you — the most important person in this equation and in your life — are left wanting to banging your head against the wall. Your mental health…

Kids bring home all the plagues.

I went to my first professional conference in AGES this past week. Want to know the quickest way to kill a conversation? Tell people you're a housewife while attending a professional conference. You can almost hear thoughts grind to a halt. I was simply a unicorn who's existence could not be processed in the minds of…

Memphis, man. Don't forget Jerry Jarrett's Continental Wrestling Association (you might have heard of their Intergender Wrestling Champion, Andy Kaufman). You can't do a show on the territories without mentioning Memphis.

Dude, a whole show based on burly Minnesotans arguing over plates of lutefisk and hotdish about who's going to go over? God, damn you, you brilliant bastard.

I volunteer my services as researcher and archivist!

It's a toss up: Brody's murder would provide a good sub-story for the season after death (the best part would be Dutch Mantell's testimony — we can at see him practice the testimony he would have given, in a mirror or something, right?) whereas we'd get to see a season's worth of Bravo's cigarette smuggling and mob…

All that money down the drain and to think it just took some crowd-funding and a bit of yoga...

Based on anecdotes from friends who are workers, it depends on the state a particular show is held in. Across the board, promoters will provide nothing in terms of insurance. Where professional wrestling is still under the purview of the state athletic commission (or, as I once heard it called, the "boxing…

I NEED the elliptical with the working iPod charger.