Oh my gawd! Again with the Spanx debate? If your Spanx hurt, you are wearing the wrong style and/or size.

I love this cake-topper irrationally.

A nasty sprain?

The original location was on the corner of 5th and 3rd.

That, frankly, is probably exactly what Malkovich is going for.

John Malkovich can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned. He has been passionate about fashion for a long, long time, and while I don’t just adore all of these pieces, they show thought and understanding. Malkovich has a legitimate claim to design, and I’m happy to see him take it.

No, I am stating a fact. If a child spends 40 hours per week in a tete-a-tete with an actual professional caregiver, that child is being raised by that caregiver. It’s time spent, it’s bonding, it’s falling in love. That is real.

I’m not sure how YOUR math works. Just say that children are with nannies 40 hours per week—though it’s generally more. Parents who spend all 12 waking hours with their children on Saturday and Sunday plus the 2.5 hours between arriving home at 5:30 and a generous 8 pm bedtime will have clocked 36.5 waking hours with…

Those women, whose husbands “babysit” their own children? They oughtn’t to have procreated with assholes. I don’t judge women who want to work. I know plenty of them! I am pissed that people judge me for having passionate feelings about what is right and wrong for me and my daughter and my family. One of my besties…

I appreciate people’s feelings, but I in my job as a nanny to very privileged children spent far more waking hours with them than anyone, particularly the youngest who was my especial charge. He looked to me on every issue, and if I was in the house I was in charge, even if his parents were present. If someone is with…

I think your reading comprehension needs work. I was a nanny, a real, full-time Mary Poppins, and I assure you that I was absolutely instrumental in raising the children. The youngest, who was with me form birth to age eight, is a great deal more like me than anyone in his biological family. Someone who spends…

That’s condescending. I decided that I should stay home and my husband agreed on these same principals. Until my daughter was born, I was a professional nanny. It is positively criminal for me to go care for a baby—even at $60K a year—and then pay someone to indifferently raise my child. If we couldn’t afford someone…

Yeah, I’m an X-er, raised mostly by my grandmother, and I know a LOT of people who were consistently cared for by their grandparents. My situation was partly born of neglect, but it is absolutely factual that Boomers expected their parents to pitch in on childcare, the way families had for generations. But THEY are…

I just don’t have that big a problem with fur. The older women in my family all have furs, and I wish that I could have one. As long as the animal is humanely killed and the carcass is used, I just sort of... don’t think it’s much worse than eating factory-farmed meat, which I do when I eat out, or wearing leather…

Mariah is clinging to being a 20-year-old sexpot. It’s not a good look.

We do that at our house, too. Our house is a fat wife hot guy house, though.

Yeah, my about-to-turn-two daughter kisses ME on the mouth. It’s how she’s showing affection right now, and I like it better than head-butting, anyway.

Thanks for the info! I feel bad for my friend—I know that ring wasn’t cheap. Looks like they got hosed.

That is technically true, but the stones do not wear the same. A friend of mine got a rather large lab-created diamond in a Tiffany setting for everyday wear, and within two years it was very dull. The cuts had worn down and it was...just shitty looking. I have some lab-created earrings, and they wear beautifully.…

The black diamonds really, really piss me off. Where I am from, we have a word for that, and that word is coal.