I loved that song! I think I still have the 12".

True! But I notice the camera lingered quite lovingly on Harry Styles' face (and on a bunch of youngs I don't recognize and would like to get off my lawn), so perhaps they are aware of their target demo for this song.

I am especially interested in that aspect of the de-hooding. I can only hope that it goes nationwide so that the ratio of cops/KKK finally convinces my fellow white people that cops killing black people just MIGHT be a racial thing.

Well, I hope you're wrong but I'm afraid you're right.

I understand those One Direction fellows are somewhat popular with the kids these days, though.

I have nothing but respect for the work of the Carter Center and the Gates Foundation— I absolutely agree that they are "doing it right".

However, none of the people in this video are philanthropists or politicians. They are performers. Their celebrity and musical ability (such as they are) is what they have to give,…

When he stopped her the second time, I started crying for poor Sophia.

I wondered about that book that fell out of his backpack about surviving abuse. Was it for him, or was he trying to understand Carol better? Maybe both.

I was so mad at the zombies who started growling when Caryl were laying beside each other on the bed! DAMMIT, cock-blocking zombies!

Kelly, you know you're my kinswoman, but I think you're way off on this one.

We (and those singing this song) have been insulated from the reality of Ebola as it decimates West Africa. Yes, people who want to be informed can be, but the majority could not care less as long as it's Not In Their Backyard.

You may be too…

You know, I went over there to "like" all the same-sex couples kissing, but there were so many saccharine "ten years and a thousand babies later, we're still in love and God blah blah America" that I just developed spontaneous diabetes. Barf.

Eradicated, obliterated, tied to a literary post and whipped into such brutal submission that it never rears its vicious head again.

I draw the line at moving thirty-one cats to Israel, though.

I was wretched when we had to put my sweet cocker spaniel to sleep after prolonged oxygen deprivation due to congestive heart failure, when she was just thirteen. I would have given half my heart and my spare lung to have her for just one more day. I still grieve for her after nearly thirteen years.

It wasn't as hard…

That context definitely helps me understand. Thank you.

I know it's not going to happen, but I just had this gleeful image of people having to actually put some thought and love into their gifts— like, making something for someone, or driving your children to see something once-in-a-lifetime beautiful— instead of cheap toys or electronics that fall apart right after New…

I gotta say, as a mom with probably more than my fair share of paranoia, I would still feel like a total lunatic insisting that ALL single adults must vacate a park because one of them MIGHT be a pedophile. Very silly.

I'm almost positive this case featured heavily in Susan Faludi's "Backlash," so I know I can go look up all the ins and outs. I don't know off the top of my head, and can't think of a scenario in which the fetus would be in more danger than it would be by being born at 23 weeks!

Yeah, still doesn't seem logical to me. She'd been married to the guy long enough to have two kids (about 10 and 6 in age, I guess). He's been deployed long enough to have been in active combat— she must know from either her fellow army spouses or directly from Abraham what kind of shit he'd seen and done. But she is…

But they touted success in reducing actual pre-term deliveries. Now that I've read the attached article, I see that they're doing it through access to prenatal care and cutting off funding through Medicaid for elective early delivery before 39 weeks.