Promise Keeper Cat

In July, Tig was diagnosed with cancer.

David Rakoff tells this story, about the invisible processes that can happen inside our bodies and the visible effects they eventually have.

"Slow to react" is usually an insult.

Dan Savage points a finger at the Catholic Church for being the kind of criminal organization that drives him to atheism—despite the fact that he still wants to believe he'll see his mom in heaven someday.

Dan Savage makes the case for yelling at children.

Regular This American Life contributor Dan Savage, a syndicated sex columnist with possibly the filthiest mouth of anyone you could ever meet, finds a TV program so dirty, so weird, and so perverted that he won't let his son watch it—even though it's a kids' show, made for kids, and broadcast on a network for kids.