I was feeling like I needed a good punishing today, so I took a Cosmo quiz online – the most offensive-sounding one I could find. “What Kind of Female Are You” was the title. First of all, it should be “woman,” not “female.” Referring to a woman as a “female” conjures images of rap videos [...]

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’m of the mind that anyone and everyone can benefit from a little bit of skincare and makeup….as long as it makes you feel more comfortable. I do have some friends that are so freaked out by the idea of applying eyeliner (or the actual purpose of bronzer) they wouldn’t go near it for a [...]

Ever since I was the invisible tall girl (believe me, it is quite possible to be both tall and invisible—just stand near the back) in my high school choir class, I have long-harbored a secret desire to be Idina Menzel. I may have blended seamlessly into the other sopranos and never had the guts to [...]

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 [...]

A town of around 13,000 that claims an 81% rate of Christianity, the London suburb of Upminster has been dubbed “England’s Sexiest Place” by Lovehoney UK. Since Upminsterites spend an average of almost eight times as much as other Brits on sex-related products, are all the heathens just wildly hedonistic – or are regular people [...]

With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, we must sometimes check our faces as we walk into grocery and department stores to make sure we didn’t leave home in our rose-colored glasses. Bundles of pink and red treasures line the shelves for shoppers looking to please their partners, providing countless opportunities for love-struck souls to reach out [...]

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 [...]

When I was working for a certain university, there came a point during the winter months where everybody inevitably lost his or her minds. I can only assume this happens to almost everyone in the realm of education. The days get shorter. Now you know all your kids and they’re beginning to annoy you. You [...]