A few nights ago I asked my ex-Marine husband how women dealt with menstruation in a makeshift camp in the middle of the desert. He didn’t really know, but he thought they must travel stocked with tampons. He went on to inform me that some argue menstruation is reason enough to not allow women into [...]

I’m sure many of you have seen the Dodge Charger Commercial that aired during the Superbowl. “Man’s Last Stand” was the premise. Men are tired, it seems, of living hollow and meaningless lives with their spouses. They continually allow themselves to be emasculated by their wives, doing things like watching vampire TV shows and carrying [...]

Stress can make us do crazy things. I know because stress can make me do crazy things. Also I have plenty of friends who’ve had moments where they look back and cringe. For example, once upon a time I was having “one of those days” and some guy in a Target bumped into me. He [...]

Cracked.com has become a favorite website here at the office. Their standout feature is obscure, snarky and absolutely fascinating lists: “The 6 Most Aggressively Ridiculous Benders in Modern History” and “7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art” are two recent examples, along with “6 Global Corporations Started by Their Founder’s Shitty Luck.” [...]

I was driving forty minutes to campus last night and fiddling with the radio. The CD player is broken and there’s no mp3 or satellite radio hooked up, so it was radio or nothing. Panicky and distracted, I remembered reading earlier on cracked.com that listening to music can help calm down people with brain issues, [...]

Dear Australia, I have a bone to pick. As a cabinet member of the IBTC, that’s Itty Bitty Titty Committee to you, your “classification board” (i.e. national censorship organization) has overstepped a few boundaries. It was rumored that women with small breasts were banned from being in pornographic films or publications in your country. I now understand [...]

Mary Karr, author of The Liar’s Club and Cherry, comes out swinging again with her latest memoir, Lit. Her Texas shit-kicking style shines through as usual, but she’s tempered it this time with a serene wisdom born of her sobriety and conversion to Catholicism. Mary’s told us quite a bit about her family in the past [...]

Like some of the worst disasters, it lasted for only one minute. After a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday, Jan. 12; the government nearly collapsed and citizens were left to fend for themselves with inadequate resources. Shock, grief and awe played upon the faces of Haitian men, women and children [...]

Over one half of teddy bears traded through the gas station and grocery store market are doomed to a life in the hall closet, as a dog chew, or in the toy bin at Goodwill. Alone. Unloved. In danger. This Valentine’s Day, we at Tickle have vowed to bring awareness to their brave plight. Please don’t [...]

When Googling phthalates (pronounced “thal-ates”), the first-page domain names include ourstolenfuture.org, thedailygreen.com, chemicalbodyburden.org and pollutioninpeople.org. Clearly environmentalists are concerned. But it’s called “environmental science” for a reason: empirical, data-driven studies are the foundation, and this plastic house appears slightly wobbly. Some of the health concerns attributed to phthalates are caused by high-level exposure and include cancer [...]