That sounds like what they call Megacolon in cats. Once they get it they have to be on meds pretty much for the rest of their lives.

Ugh, her writing style. You'd think she'd have grown out of that tendency towards hyperbole and self-congratulation mixed with cutesy neuroticism by now.

Observe how they didn't work for the other person with the same issue who commented directly above you. I mean, if they're working for you then I'm glad, because what you're describing sounds pretty miserable, but they don't seem to work very well for a lot of people, and a lot of people who get them aren't even…

I'm sure John Harvey Kellog would have loved it.

I meant specifically in China, in terms of government policy. I'm very familiar with how reproductive choices lead to lower birth rates in general, but this is a case in which clearly that isn't the problem - birth control is freely avaliable in China, and very few people are having lots of kids because they can't…

Why do people get colonics? I can understand that if you were chronically constipated that would be uncomfortable, but surely there's a better way of dealing with that than flushing out your intestines with a garden hose? Eat more fiber! Take supplements! I dunno, it just seems to be firmly in the category of wacky…

I particularly love all the cluelessly earnest explanations of how no, you see, this is good, it's educational, helps men to empathise! Which only works if you assume that women aren't going to play the game, and if you think that highly sexualised and very unrealistic rape scenes are great at teaching men empathy for…

Only if it's handled in a way that's not sexy or titillating at all, which this doesn't seem to have been.

The unrealistic part isn't that badass Lara Croft might fight off a rape, it's making it part of what makes her into such a badass. And the problem with the "it's just a game" argument is that women play games too, so when things like this are included, and done in such an unrealistic way, it's very alienating to…

The only positive thing we can possibly take from Japan as an example is that it proves that if women can control their fertility, they will. Even if there are massive social and governmental attempts to shame them into reproducing.

There has to be a way to keep population numbers down without resorting to forced abortions on the third trimester. Also, frankly, the harshness with which the one child policy is implemented is not unrelated to the looming demographic disaster in terms of gender imbalance. You'd think that would be a pretty clear…

It really is unacceptable for a country as wealthy as the US to have an infant mortality rate as high as we have. How about the anti-choice groups direct some of the money they spend stalking doctors on helping the many wanted babies that are dying unnecessarily? They could start by funding decent pre-natal care.

So why is Bloomberg spinning it the way he is?

You first!

Are all the keyboards in their offices broken or something? Might want to try to pry that caps lock key loose, guys.

So what happens if the cabbie is incorrect and in fact he just picked up a woman on her way to a club? I mean, if they're going to just guess based on appearance, they could end up refusing to pick up young women at all.

I think that would take more discipline than most people have.

Actually that's not what you were saying. You were formulating a theory as to how rape in games could be a useful learning experience/help change societal attitudes towards rape. The obvious problems with that being that similar depictions of rape happen all the time in movies and it hasn't helped, and that as you can…

I'm being mean because you're being rude. If you would like people to be friendly and polite to you, perhaps you should try not approaching this blog like an overbearing missionary attempting to convert the heathens.

The real reason you should stop preaching is that you've been asked to, and you're annoying people. Why impose yourself into situations where your input is not wanted and you're actively being told to get lost?