Rebekah Kuschmider

There’s going to be a shake-up in the Avengers universe — and the new Iron Man is going to be an Iron Woman. Also? She’s Black.

We need to rethink government and politics, and perhaps the best way to do it is to visualize it the way we would explain it to our kids.

BOOM, GOP. Try talking smack about the guy who got the death penalty for homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh. Dare ya!

Disney is a pretty LGBTQ-friendly company. They hire LGBTQ people, offer them good benefits, and refuse to make movies in states that don’t treat LGBTQ folks right. The only thing they haven’t done yet is make any major characters in their movies gay. There was that one scene in Frozen where Oaken (the guy with the trading post) gestured to his family and it appeared that his partner was also a guy, so that was cool. But gay princes or princesses? Not yet.

You can avoid brain drain and make summer more educational with very little effort and a whole lot of fun. Here are a few of my ideas for keeping kids thinking.

The revolution will be tweeted. By scientists.

If your marriage is anything like mine, your text history with your spouse is a mixture of topics, often several at once. It’s not unheard of for me and my husband to be flirting in one text and talking about what time our son’s soccer game is in the next — and those texts minute be sent seconds apart.

In my travels around the internet today, I happened upon an article about something Mike Rowe, dirty job expert

6 months ago, a Facebook video about calling Congress wouldn’t have been viral, but here we are. This is what we have to do.

You're probably also secretly wondering what a caucus is, as you likely live in a state that does primary elections instead of the more complicated caucus process.