My thoughts exactly.

I was thinking the same thing. In the US and Canada, cops raping women — especially black and First Nations women — are covered up and the department goes to extremes to protect them and discredit the woman. What often happens seems to be the cop(s) just get put on desk duty or on paid leave until the media moves…

Yeah, it's a really great show. Lauren Faust designed it from the ground up to both be watchable by adults and not treat little girls like idiots, even though Hasbro wanted to go the traditional route and have it be all about what G1-G3 was about. Plus it's usually a stress-free show which is so refreshing since most…

Rule #34 of the internet: If it exists, there's porn of it. There's Transformers porn, Doctor Who porn, Adventure Time porn, Barbie porn, GI Joe porn, TMNT porn, Harry Potter porn, Seseme Street porn. Hell, there's probably even fucking Caillou porn! Just because a small minority of a fandom decides to draw porn…

Small subset of a group ≠ entirety of group.

They're saying that it was just the one franchisee, but I have a feeling it's way more common than that one guy. Why pay someone minimum wage when you can pay someone sub-minimum wage and essentially have an indentured servant because they can't just walk away and remain in Canada?

My store does something similar. Managers get a salary from corporate while associate hours are tied to department profit. If a department is slow or lost a lot of money, the available hours for everyone can go from 350 to 300 or less. And keep in mind that managers and supervisors get 40 hours a week and those come…

Exactly. The CEO's and higher-ups won't feel the sting of theft, but the frontline employees — particularly ones who aren't managers — sure might. Maybe they'll just have a meeting, but hours could be cut department-wide due to shrinkage, the people on during the theft may have hours cut, or an employee may get blamed…

I find it amazing how crows and ravens mourn their dead and remember where (and sometimes why) other birds have died long after the fact. I remember hearing about one instance where a farmer, tired of hundreds of migrating crows settling on his farm for a week or so every migration, went out and fired a shotgun into…

Oh, I tend to hoard money, too! "That looks kind of nice, but I really don't need it..." is often the main thought in my head when I go shopping with the intention of buying something. Needless to say, I tend to return from shopping trips empty handed. Which actually paid off recently when I was met with a large and…

Exactly. My allowance was small so I learned to save it up to buy things like toys, since I quickly realized that while candy may be tasty, I got more and longer lasting enjoyment out of something that wouldn't be gone in minutes. I sometimes still spend impulsively, but my default behaviour is to save up since that's…

It really is.

I know, right?!

It's sad that it's more acceptable and believable for actors to be werewolves, vampires, creepy hobbits with mange, or giant blue cat people aliens than it is for a gay actor to play anything other than gay characters (if the actor is known to be gay, at least).

That's one of the things that jumped out at me, too. Dogs are used to being taken out places and being around strangers. Cats aren't, so of course they're going to be uncooperative when they're taken to a completely new place with new people staring at them.

Nope, the clitoris has more nerve endings whether a penis has a foreskin or not. And recent research has discovered the exposed clitoris is just a tiny fraction of the organ — the majority of it is internal and circles the vaginal canal.

That's also why I take issue whenever a guy says women can have all the sex they want because "they have men throwing themselves at them constantly, so they're too picky if they can't get laid." When one's health, safety, and possibility of being stuck with an 18+ year commitment are all factors, being "picky" is a…

Yup. I can't speak for others, but even if I just wanted some good ol' casual sex, I would still have to scrutinize potential partners carefully because going somewhere private with someone who is stronger than me isn't risk-free (and knowing if something were to happen I'd get blamed also puts a damper on things).

Precisely. There will still be other, non-sexualized stamps for people to buy and use for everyday purposes, so no one is being forced to buy and use stamps they have issues with. These are definitely collector/novelty stamps that won't see widespread use (though I would get a kick out of using them to send some mail…

I like that he states that since no male students have asked to wear a dress, this policy is fine. Because there's obviously no societal stigma against men wearing dresses or "feminine" attire which keeps guys from wearing something they may prefer to wear, let alone having to go and ask permission to do so. The mere…