Anna Merlan's saved articles

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general. Read more

This is my all time favorite online review and I can't imagine it ever being bumped from its top spot in my heart. It is for a hotel in my hometown, from July 25, 2009. Read more

But how do they define "clergy"? Read more

"Marriage was historically a religious covenant first and a government-recognized contract second." Read more

On the bright side, the "religious liberty" bill that would have allowed OK businesses to not serve people if doing so was against strong religious convictions? Failed.

Did you see the thing where Ireland accidentally proposed a constitutional referendum that made heterosexual marriage illegal? (This was right after they accidentally legalized meth http://uproxx.com/webculture/201…) Read more

The boy's dress code seems much more restrictive. The girl's dress code only needs more paragraphs because its more open ended at allowing them to craft their own outfits as opposed to the dress shirt, dress slacks, dress shoes, tie and mandatory shaving the boys are subjected to. Because its open ended and doesn't… Read more

My personal favourite, courtesy of the Cecil Hotel in LA

says the lady who went to cpac Read more

That last story is eerily familiar. I was on a trip with my high school band from Indiana to Disney World in Florida and we stayed overnight in a motel. At some point late at night someone called the room that a friend and I were staying in saying that the vehicle we arrived in was having engine trouble and that we… Read more

It is Catalina State Park in Tucson Read more

What happened to Marlise was absolutely sick. You need more than just a uterus to gestate a healthy pregnancy, and asses like Matt Krause just don't realize that. You're not only taking away someone's bodily autonomy and ignoring their advance directives, you are asking to keep a dead person artificially alive to… Read more

It's astonishing that this abundantly reasonable bill and the absurd dystopian nightmare of Krause's bill co-exist in the same state at the same time. Fingers crossed that sanity beats crazy just this once. Read more

One of my favorite hobbies (sad, I know) is to read all the hysterically terrible hotel reviews on TripAdvisor, so this new Jezebel feature thrills me no end! Read more

All of Gallup, New Mexico deserves a grim Yelp review. Read more

Once, I was stuck in Atlanta when our flight was delayed and didn't land in time for me to make my connecting flight. Delta sent me to the "Wellesley Inn," and I think there may be a rule somewhere that the shittier the dump, the fancier you name it. Anywho, they shuttled us to this dive in the middle of the night,… Read more

I found this gem of a review while at work, and the biggest regret of my life is that I cannot for the life of me remember what park this is.

Wow. Read more

In middle school, our band was invited to compete in the state of Michigan's public school band competition. Probably not the formal name of it, but whatever - we sucked as a band and it's not that important to the story. Because said competition took over the course of two days in a location that was a three hour… Read more