Seeing the headline, “Millennials Now Bringing Their Parents On Job Interviews”, made me gag. Then I immediately thought of the “Ban the bag” Portlandia skit. Yeah, I’m talking about “Portlandia”…

    I just read a great article by William Saletan at Slate… so great, that I had to get up out of bed (I was reading it on my iPad), and…

    Good Lord. Suspected Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a dang fan club. From The Gothamist:   As Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived at court today, about a…

Painting by Frederic Edwin Church, 1861, oil on paper, “Our Banner in the Sky”, H/T: http://www.urbancure.org/     My friend Aja sent me an email that had the picture above in there. After…

  Check out “normal” Barbie, a doll created with realistic proportions. From Huff Po:   Artist Nickolay Lamm of MyDeals.com used CDC measurements of an average 19-year-old woman to create a 3-D…

  Move over Don, Roger, Peggy and Joan. It’s time to meet the real men and women of Madison Ave, courtesy of Thirteen. I watched the premiere last night, and definitely recommend…

    And the fails keep coming. From Upworthy:   An IRS contractor hurt his foot playing football in military prep school. He never served in the actual military. Then one day,…

(Source)   I don’t identify as a feminist. Not first wave, second wave, third wave or wavy wave. I don’t like lots of labels, and this one, for me, is particularly problematic.…

(NPR)     I so thought I’d skip the whole Paula Deen kerfluffle with just yesterday’s quick mention. And I really was going to leave it alone because like everything celeb-related, the…