Anti-choicers often insist there are plenty of homes eager to adopt these babies... ignoring the fact there are half a million surplus kids now floating around in foster care. “Oh but they want infants!” Nice, clean, healthy, white infants with no substance abuse issues that haven’t already been screwed up by the…

That is simultaneously one of the truest and saddest statements. They do not care if women die trying to self-abort. In fact, they’d probably smile with grim pleasure that another “sinner” got her just desserts.

I really wish we could develop a way to remove unwanted fetuses and freeze them. That way, there would be no outcry about “killing babies.” They’re in stasis, able to be unfrozen and re-implanted in a willing uterus. Women could choose to completely surrender the pregnancy to a willing host, or keep it for a later…

The plane actually isn’t as bad as I expected it to be. From the interior photos of his apartment I’ve seen, I expected the plane to be thickly covered with 100% crass tackiness.

They believe - sincerely - that one of two things will happen:

Here’s the thing: they don’t CARE if you die. In their minds, you deserve it for doing such an awful thing. They would smile down smugly at your body and picture you roasting in hell with the other sinners, and discuss carting your corpse around to schools so they could use it to scare young girls about what happens…

Everyone knows if you keep kids ignorant of how to protect themselves from disease or pregnancy, they just won’t have sex.

I am the product of two dumb, horny teenagers from a lower socio-economic bracket. I never had any educational toys, or much in the way of what modern parents consider essential enrichment for small children, except that my mother diligently read to me, and made sure I had all the books I could read via weekly trips…

I’ve stayed in both on-site and off-site hotels, and I’ve resolved that I’m going to stick with the Disney resorts from now on. Yes, you will pay through the nose, but spending an hour on the bus each way - assuming you can get right on and not have to wait in line (and worse, having to do transfers at the hubs, like…

I love EPCOT, but it does need a major overhaul. A good number of the attractions are badly outdated. I’m a major museum and “edu-tainment” fan, so I love looking through the exhibits, but I have to admit they really need some work.

I have some... issues with crowds. I can’t stand having someone in my personal space and I get over-stimulated too easily with lots of motion and noise. That’s why I strongly suggest choosing a time that’s not near any school break periods. I was there once over Spring Break, and saw them literally close the admission…

I think the reason I love Disney so much is that I have very happy memories from there as a child, and that all-around good feeling has carried over to adulthood.

That’s a very good analysis, actually. In romance novels, the power imbalance in male/female relationships is flipped. Whereas many real women feel they aren’t valued and are the ones pushing for a relationship, men in romance novels are singularly attracted to this particular female, utterly obsessed with having her,…

You forgot “rich.” Because that seems to be important, though Our Heroine demurs material things. Still, she accepts the first edition books, designer clothes (after he strips her drunk and unconscious body), a car, a cell phone he can track, etc.

I’ve read the books. I’m not going to slam the writing style, because I’ve seen worse. What disturbed me was that the male protagonist was an out-and-out sociopath. He was a sadist, not a dominant, and an irresponsible one at that, refusing to recognize safe words, etc..

RawStory said yesterday that they’re burning them in a large oil drum.... indoors.

Someday I legitimately want one of these folks to sit down and explain to me how the rest of the industrialized world is able to have things like family leave, universal health care, extensive social safety nets - which sometimes include free college! - and not collapse into financial ruin and anarchy.

I’m just grateful that ugly see-through dress trend finally seems to be dying.

Here’s what slays me about that passage... They MADE their father drink the wine. Because, of course, he wouldn’t have done it otherwise. But they somehow knew if they got their father to drink it, he would get so rip-roarin’ drunk that he wouldn’t remember what happened that night. And would be down for some…