Jody Allard

In today's news, the sky is blue, Republican lawmakers are assholes, and the House just voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Again.

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Only highly educated white people seemed willing to consider the idea that their children might learn best without any instruction at all.

"23. Coffee is full of antioxidants and is therefore a healthy and necessary part of each day."

Delivering gifts to children around the globe in a single night might seem like a tall order for one man, but when children were asked whether a woman could do Santa Claus' job, a passel of adorable British kids had a decidedly ugly answer –– a resounding no.

No one is currently in a position to mandate a one-size-fits-all vaccine policy.

As you might imagine, assuming that men and women are exactly the same hasn't worked out too well.

Make no mistake: Josh Duggar is the one and only person responsible for molesting his sisters. But it's naive to pretend that the environment in which he was raised had no impact on his actions.

ICYMI, half of my home state of Washington, as well as our neighboring state of Idaho, has been or is currently on fire.

When Belgian police asked for a social media blackout of their anti-terrorist operations over the weekend, they got what they wanted in the most Internet way possible –– the hashtag #BrusselsLockdown was quickly taken over by cat pictures.