impudent strumpet

Further to my previous thoughts about cultural prioritization of self-sufficiency stemming from Big Sort , I find myself wondering about its...

Apparently department stores are trying to make a comeback. Here's how they can get my business: organize the women's clothing secti...

1. Astronaut Leland Melvin appears to have had a formal astronaut portrait taken with his big gorgeous dogs ! I'd love to have been be...

(Gloating: I totally caught the translation error in the subtitles at 2:07 - Poodle just confirmed it for me. This is noteworthy because I ...

Why is Omar Khadr in prison in the first place? Because he allegedly threw a grenade that mortally wounded a US soldier. I know nothing of ...

Terminological note: "non-socialist" is not the word I'm looking for. I'm looking for an opposite of "socialist...

Recently I saw an item on Google News about how some scientists had made an interesting and interactive map of how a 4 degree increase in w...

In general usage, tone-deaf is taken to mean you can't sing because you miss the notes. However, its literal meaning is that you can...

This song didn't feel nearly so bubblegum when it first came out.

Joan Jett, Debbie Harry and Cyndi Lauper in Barbie form. Those would have been such an awesome addition to my all-blonde Barbie collection.

Why do people think their immune system is strong enough to fight off a whole disease, but don't think their immune system is up to prop...

Even if you normally read it through a feed reader, make sure to click through to the main page today. It's beautiful!

A while back, I was chatting with my hairdresser and found out that most of her clients are childfree. I thought on this a while, and it le...

In real life, there's obviously be too much political/ideological backlash, but let's just play with this idea. The different levels...

From the second letter in this Miss Manners column (bolding mine): You could assist an entire profession if you would advise undergraduates...

There are some people who have the attitude "I can do X, so anyone should be able to do X." This often comes with connotations tha...

I've been very frustrated with my elders lately, because they aren't being smarter than me in the ways I need them to be. I'm n...

vs. You'd need to tweak the tempos a bit, but that's doable for people who know how to do that sort of thing.

I have multiple posts festering in my brain and in my drafts folder, but I'm too cranky today. I spent the whole day feeling disproport...