There’s something hugely unethical about forcing someone into a job the day they’re born. If they are going to keep the monarchy in some capacity, they at least could not make someone an heir until they’re at least 21, with an easy opt-out before age 35, and the throne going to either the person closest in line who is…

I believe it’s the same for Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We’re a mix of indigenous and immigrant cultures, and it hasn’t stabilized yet.

1. Drinking on the job is something employers should be able to deal with.

You can redesign it if the will is there. Fix the electoral college issue, bring in proportional voting (we’re working on that one in Canada), learn to think outside the two-party box on specific issues (i.e. look for consensus on issues rather than ramming through a particular platform). It has to happen sometime,…

Being told to flirt, dress sexy, and/or kiss someone as a condition of employment is bad enough. A-listers are always being put into relationships on camera, and that’s gotta play havoc with their personal lives. Why should the line be drawn with intercourse? In other workplaces, all of it is over the line, for a very…

Regardless of what happened in this particular situation, plying employees with alcohol and telling them to engage in sexual behaviour is seriously dodgy stuff. It’s sexual harassment all round, imo.

Most democratic countries have viable third parties, as well as lunatic fringe parties. Why is the US not up for this? I think if the race between the two main parties is so close you can’t afford to have third parties, you have a bigger problem than third parties.

What about sugar or chocolate? Or white bread/pasta/white rice (essentially sugar also)? I think it’s normal to want to play with your body chemistry. The problem is when people are hurting and overdo it to compensate. (I don’t drink or smoke or “do drugs” but have used plenty of food to self-medicate, which to me is…

You haven’t read/seen The Canterville Ghost?

You have every right to know where you came from genetically. You don’t owe him anything feeling wise, though. Treat it as a genealogy research project, and see how it goes.

My father kicked me out of the family about 25 years ago when I stood up for myself. The only contact I’ve had with him in decades is when I asked my brother for genealogy information from him and he replied to me directly. Ugh! Every day is be angry at Dad day because I’m disabled and on welfare, and my parents are…

I don’t think God cares that much about whether we live or die, since to God it’s not really important. I think there’s a bigger plan, where we’re all characters in his novel and we all have to play our roles no matter how bad they are, or the story doesn’t work out. People do have to die in bad ways, unfortunately,…

His own people have now given him the right to wear a headdress, so he may wear one in a future movie.

Normally, she’d probably call them wisdom spots, but on him?

Maybe not so much if you’re short. It took me quite some time to adjust to my seat because it leaned back a bit too far. I think a recliner would be a lot worse for me. But I’m glad people have choices.

Is this for real? Not a joke? They really do all that in a theatre? (I googled to be sure you weren’t pulling our legs.)

I was wondering about that.

On the ‘70s television show Welcome Back, Kotter, the teenage students hung out at a teacher’s apartment. I remember them rearranging the furniture once as a “favor” for their teacher’s pregnant wife. She wasn’t too happy about that.

I’m disabled and have been on some sort of welfare or other for almost 20 years now, usually not enough to hold body and soul together (even though I’m disabled and am getting more than the basic amount). I’m not going to argue with anyone that we need a social safety net - it’s kept me alive all these years (though…

I saw it yesterday afternoon. It’s a comic book movie, and a pretty good one, but I’d only give it a B+ because I’m tired of comic book movies. I haven’t seen the recent DC films, but I did collect volume 2 WW in the George Perez days, so I may be a little bit spoiled, rather than relieved.