Potato-sack

The Jezebel ring-threads I find so fascinating now have a companion piece: the comments on a personal essay about one woman's journey ...

"How could anybody not like you?" - Helen Seinfeld

At the intersection of parental overshare and the window-of-opportunity problem: the Princeton University mom who wrote a letter to a Pri...

Demure

Back in the day, a certain cult-of-personality English teacher (not, I believe, in the sinister sense ) at my high school, in a class dedica...

On "Josh" and "Seth"

I will admit that I first read  this reference to TV writers as "white dudes with names like Josh or Seth" as a bit Jews-control-...

Your friends, your politics

The anti-same-sex-marriage-from-the-left arguments keep on popping up (along with passionate arguments about whether it is sheep-like or a n...

"My muffin-top is all that, whole grain, low fat" - Jenna Maroney

Ron Rosenbaum has written a contrarian defense of fat-the-ingredient . ( Via Mark Bittman , who so could have torn this apart, but must have...

News and commentary

I know I should follow the Supreme Court news from the newspaper. And I am. These are exciting times! But the Facebook response is so compel...