I have had 7 cats over the past 16 years. 5 of them were/are adult rescues. They really do give a lot of love, don't they?

I always wonder if they understand that we've rescued them.

But lamb is delicious. And I know it was killed at some point before ending up on my plate.

I took my children to a Robert Munsch reading at our library a number of years ago. I prayed he wouldn't read that, but of course he did. All the kids were just listening, rapt and happy, and all the parents were sitting there with tears streaming down their faces.

When my daughter was 3 yrs old, she'd be rubbing my back and saying: "don't cry, Mommy." I figured she'd end up in therapy if I kept breaking down. Once, I got all the way to the end and lost it on the last page. Dammit.

My heart breaks for this father. What a beautiful photo.

If I was more crafty, I'd make a yard sign saying "Put the Sol back in Solstice"

I sort of see the point of not canceling classes when a holiday is only observed by a very small group in the student population. But they can and should make some other accommodations, such as not counting it as an absence, directing teachers not to schedule tests or other significant events on that day, excusing the…

I would rather get divorced.

... No, you didn't, but it never ceases to amuse some of us Nordics. Because in Danish, "bae" means "shit".

Have you actually read the comments? We're all more mocking and eyerolling at TIME and 4Chan than getting outraged and upset.

The list almost reads as an old person's "Words to get mad at because you don't understand the meaning" list. Way to stay relevant, Time.

Friendly reminder that the US edition of Time Magazine sees its readers as idiots and is terrified of covering any issue of substance:

Wow. What a one-sided article. The vote spam is actually about ethics in games journalism.

My soul living on in a cute fuzzy kitty? I'm ok with that.

When my great grandma's health started to decline, we had just gotten a puppy -a crazy energetic golden retriever who jumped on and barked at anything and everything that made her excited, and my GG just loved her, even though we wouldn't let the puppy get too close for fear her knocking GG over. Once she was finally…

When my dad was dying of cancer (at home) our last remaining family pet (a fluffy Himalayan cat named Mr. Kittles) spent almost every hour of the day by his side, napping, purring, and lounging. He basically only left the room to eat and go to the bathroom. My dad wasn't even a cat person but he said it was very…

I really hesitate to glorify this kind of bullying "I'm just being honest" personality. I had a mother like this, and in real life these people are hugely destructive in the long term, and their "honesty" is based in their own warped version of reality. And sometimes a bitchy woman is not a…

Practical advice: get an altoids tin, label it "Adderall," and believe with all your little heart that whenever you take a mint from the tin, it immediately clears all your blockages to productivity. I don't use real mental focus drugs for a number of reasons, but this gets me 80% of the way there and without any side…

I can say, as the father of a toddler, that a toddler's willingness to consume something is inversely proportional to how much the parent wants them to have it. It's like they have psychic powers, so I assume a toddler can slam down alcohol like Boris Yeltsin.