Because a granola bar is something she probably has in her backpack while traveling and can hand off without asking the child to come with her, out of sight of whatever adult or older sibling might be keeping an eye on him/her, to buy a sandwich. Obviously, giving a kid a granola bar isn’t going to solve world hunger,…

the very few places that gays have to congregate being overrun by straights

I went to college and took psych/sociology classes with a lot of people who believed gender was just a social construct, nothing more, and that if you treated boys and girls the same growing up, they’d turn out the same. I didn’t really buy it even then, because my parents tried so hard not to stick me in a gender box…

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Yeah, it’s some serious middle-school mean girls shit.

I don’t get it. If you’re buying things to give people so they can sell them, why not just give them money?

Nah. By my reckoning, Jennifer Aniston is nearing the end of her 40th trimester and she still looks great, so I call shenanigans.

Seriously, that’s what you got out of this article?

What, you want to give them free birth control now, too? You goddamn commie.

One thing a lot of people don’t realize about unemployment is that you usually are eligible even if you were fired, as long as you weren’t fired for misconduct. Misconduct is a much narrower standard than “for cause.” An employee who failed to meet sales quotas or otherwise just wasn’t very good at their job could be…

Exactly, which shows he didn’t really believe she was stealing, only that he believed he could get away with taking advantage of her.

That’s actually not a bad idea. She wouldn’t necessarily have to find and pay for her own attorney, either; she could file a complaint with the EEOC.

Workers’ comp isn’t my area of expertise, but I don’t think there’s any sort of automatic payout for incidents that presumably would cause psychological injury. Reimbursement for counseling might be one thing, but any sort of payment for lost wages would probably require a showing that she was unable to work due to…

But I haaaaaaaate videos!!!

Yeah, that makes sense. Medicine in general seems to be much more of a grey area than the court system is really equipped to deal with.

Fair enough. I think you often can tell a lot about a person by their selfies. I actually chose your post to reply to with some general comments/observations about some of the push-back I’ve witnessed because I’m a fan of your comments in general and I like interacting with you. (Want a hand-stamp? JK.)

And family. If your organization’s name mentions family, 10-1 you oppose the making of families featuring more or fewer than one adult penis, and you’re OK with children going hungry if their parents can’t or won’t earn enough money to get by without social assistance.

I’d kick in for that kickstarter.

If a doctor actually lies on the stand, that’s perjury, and they can go to jail for that. Of course, there’s a lot of grey area with respect to massaging statistics and whatnot, but I’m pretty sure if a doctor said, under oath, that a baby’s skull was left in a woman’s uterus when in fact no such thing had happened, I…

I’m a little torn. Obviously the problems with giving to children, or otherwise interacting with them, are real and worth talking about. But I’m sensing some vitriol toward people who are trying to do the right thing, and while criticism of the actions themselves is warranted, the anger toward the people is not, in my…