“I could not afford my mother’s care. I was competing with a handful of extremely wealthy women from Palo Alto, Atherton, Mountain View and Menlo Park, for what could have been my mother. When she came home she was controlling, abusive, vindictive. Cheeky white children had tried her patience for hours on end and she had none left for me. I would not be attending any extracurriculars or having a home-cooked meal. I had been pushed out of the market for my own mother so that a white woman somewhere could raise her well-rounded children. I got the sour ends, leftovers once again, of someone else’s memory of a great nanny.”
(rolls up sleeves) K, let’s talk about “Royals,” a subject on which reasonable people can disagree.
Mulder and Scully doing a Reddit AMA. No big deal.
BREAKING: A scientist prefers to be paid for her work. We’ll be talking about our own search for a gal scientist (oh, trust, we’ve already emailed Dr. Lee) later today! Oh, look, she just got one of the worst apologies I’ve ever seen.
Our own Haley Mlotek has told me that Donna Tartt’s new novel, The Goldfinch, is the single greatest novel she has ever read, and here are two early excerpts from it to get you amped up.
Ughhhh I don’t want to clean my oven, but now I have to, and Jolie is going to walk me through it.
This is the worst thing I read all week, and it’s about the rape in Maryville, Missouri, if that changes your willingness to click through.
What’s your English cat up to?
Johnny Knoxville is 42 years old.
A reader drew my attention to the baby names selected by Ralph Tollemache.
Cockblocked by redistribution.
I’ll click on anything that promises to rank the best dry shampoos, because someday Big Dry Shampoo is gonna NAIL IT.
