My endgame in this situation is that Trump voters are added to the already-large group of Americans who realize the electoral college is awful ...and we can finally be done with it.

My solution: When someone initiates the universal “somebody wants a huuuuug!” gesture (i.e., suggestively lifting/outstretching arms), I respond by also lifting my arms, and then trundling around in a circle, arms awkwardly half-lifted, like a baby owl that fell out of the nest. It looks ridiculous and ends the moment…

deserves far more stars

Just looking at that woman (who could in fact be my long-lost twin), I feel confident in saying the PB was a dumpster-diving score.

My grandmother used “mulatto” all the time. (She was white) She didn’t mean anything pejorative by it; she really thought she was simply being accurate. Even as a kid I could tell it wasn’t quite right, because no mixed-race person in our neighborhood ever referred to himself that way. Which is a good rule of thumb:…

When I started going gray, I could almost swear the mansplaining suddenly dropped in half. (I sell things for a living so I am constantly treated to new male strangers who can explain things to me.) It was chilling.

Maybe we only crawl for a very short time because it’s NOT an optimal position for us? The human spine is meant to be straight, not curved.

There is no such thing as a bad elective sterilization!  Thank you for your service, Ken Bone! #ShoutYourVasectomy

thank you for this link! tonight I will ritually pardon a beet in your honor

I enjoyed this review! “Auger” means to bore a hole. In paragraph 1, you want “augur,” meaning to foretell. (I know this because I live next door to a two-year-old boy so obsessed with augers that if you just mention the month of August he will shout, “AUGUZ! Make big holes!! Make big holes!!”)

if Ingraham is an evangelical Christian, her “testifying to Jesus” muscle memory may have kicked in at an awkward moment. they do this “raise your right hand to heaven” thing that can (not necessarily, but in practice sometimes) look very Nazi. In any case, an awkward wave that looks fascist is the kind of thing a…

I tried my first beer when I was 27 or 28, because from ages 10-26I had a pathological aversion to the smell of beer. If you want to instill the same in *your* daughter or granddaughter, I’ll share with you my grandfather’s technique: Grow a large garden. Plant kale. This will be tormented by slugs. To kill them, bury…

nle;dr (Not long enough; dreamy read)

No, it is not, because that was some kind of finch and this is a barn swallow, Hirundo rustica. They both have feathers, just like Hillary and Trump both don’t have feathers. Doesn’t make them the same thing.

My mom had an abortion before she had me. She was already with my dad, they were already married, they even had some savings, most outsiders would’ve said they had their shit together as well as any young couple does. But you know what? THEY were the only 2 people who had any right or ability to decide if they should…

I agree with you. And look, I know there are many couples out there who can raise an unintended kid like a champion. But speaking as a DAUGHTER... given the choice between a family who consciously and intentionally “flipped a fertility switch,” and a family who said “Ooh, I simply can’t decide, I wish Fate would just…

I think you hit the nail on the head: the more powerful the man is, the more freaked out he is that he was once 100% dependent on a woman: his mother. The idea that she could have chosen to end her pregnancy is terrifying to him, and each time a woman has any choice in her life — from contraception to abortion to…