though one might argue that a child can't give consent.

Just because it's a state school doesn't make it financially accessible.

Exactly. If they manage to get a good education (it sounds like most of kids go to Merced, a UC school, so it's probably not breaking the bank for most of them) and live somewhere nice while doing it, more power to them. They're making better financial decisions than the people who own the house.

The owners of those homes are damn lucky they have renters at all.

Yep. Those vultures at E! bumped their regularly scheduled episode of "Kendra" just to make way for a repeat Kim's wedding. I kinda love it.

They drank the Bachmann Kool-Aid and it gave them indigestion? So sorry to hear that.

He wouldn't cheat on us. He's just not that type of hot ginger prince.

I hope she sings "Santa Baby!"

Yeah, that's exactly who I was thinking of.

I will definitely heart you once!

Yeah, that's what I thought too. Kids don't appreciate headgames or being manipulated any more than the rest of us.

Who knew? Kids don't like being bait-and-switched or manipulated any more than the rest of us.

I'm not 100% buying it, but that may be my own wishful thinking.

Thank you for using that photo. That rapist motherfucker lives a neighborhood over from me and I hope he never gets to fade into obscurity.

Michelle is in grad school and actually getting paid to write now! She's on the Awl and on Tumblr pretty frequently.

He could "help" by calling it what it is: racism and racist opposition. It's possible to call out racism without invoking lynching. By using the kind of inflammatory hyperbole, he just allows people to dismiss his point. So unless a mob with a rope is gathering outside the White House, using that term is stupid and…

Not helping.

I know, right? It's amazing how many people buy into the marketing of bottled water. Just drink some goddamn water from the faucet, already. (I do love mineral water like Pellegrino or Gerolsteiner, but it's expensive and the carbon footprint is bad. Instead, I carbonate my tap water with a SodaStream machine).

I know, right? And people would know that you'd had the treatments and so if they weren't successful...ugh. More emotional nastiness.

Station officials said that they held the contest in order to draw attention to the fact that IVF isn't covered by the government of Ottawa and can cost infertile couples tens of thousands of dollars (pretty much what it costs in the US).