That's basically why it's a big deal: Because polyandry is totally not allowed by their religion, meaning it's basically permission for a man to have sex with multiple women, but women are forbidden from doing the exact same thing. Should it be illegal? Probably not, but that doesn't mean there's not plenty to…

The North Carolina government is doing more than any other state has ever done, even though, yes, it's not enough. Nothing would be enough. But they also have to balance the needs of this group of horribly wronged victims against the thousands and thousands of other very poor, hungry, needy people in this state. We…

Are you joking? The people who have suffered from the sterilizations are overwhelmingly desperately poor and have struggled their entire lives, on top of the horror of their surgeries and loss of fertility. I imagine that even though no amount would be enough to make up for what was taken, it will sure as hell make…

"This is not merely a matter of poor fit of remedy to [imaginary, religion-based] problem..."

I think that might actually be it. Obviously, women should be forced to bear their rapists' babies, because that way, they get something magical and happiness-making out of the rapist! Lemonade out of rapey lemons, so to speak! If they want to have an abortion, obviously it's not because of the whole icky rape thing,…

Totally not too soon. In fact, I think that's a pretty valid reason to get several unique tattoos in a variety of locations—surely the insane bath salt guy won't be able to tear them all off, right?

Whether nurses can have tattoos or not seems to depend on your particular facility. At the nursing school I just graduated from, visible tattoos were absolutely forbidden. If you had them, they had to be covered up either with clothing or Band-Aids, if they were on your finger or someplace that couldn't be covered.…

A uniform scarf, though, right? Not, say, a scarf with a football logo on it or something. I realize you suggested a cover in an ACU print, but if it's not provided by the military or specifically allowed in the regs (like stud earrings), it shouldn't be okay, as far as I understand it. (I'm not military, but my…

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That depends on the service and the uniform. When my husband was in the Navy (he retired just a couple of years ago), we were absolutely allowed to go out to lunch together with him in uniform. He could definitely gas up the car. He could go grocery shopping in uniform at the commissary; in fact, every commissary I've…

But there's no policy against it, so it isn't the same as chewing gum in uniform.

Wouldn't using a drape or cover be out of uniform? That's not in the regs, and you can't add other accessories, like a scarf, so why would a cover be acceptable?

Do people actually exercise to live longer? I certainly don't expect that if I exercise every day, I'll live to be a hundred, but I expect that I'll have more energy and less lifestyle-induced disease during the years I do have.

So I tried going through the algorithm to see what it came up with, and it requires you to know your correct band and cup size already—it doesn't have you measure yourself. Then you have to put in your favorite brand of bra, and I had only heard of two of the roughly ten brands they had listed; the other brands were…

"Didn't really think that one through did you?"

Are you ever going to play a computer game against a murder victim? That would be a bit difficult.

Bah—doctors don't handle that kind of thing, nurses do. I'm having nightmares about having to do a rectal disimpaction on some lunatic who thought some hardcore anal would be the magical cure for their constipation.

I just visited London two weeks ago, and although it was a beautiful building, it looked so very odd compared to, say, the Globe Theater.

I had no idea other people were afraid of being at the top of something really, really deep! I enjoy snorkeling, but I've never gotten really into it or gotten scuba certified because the feeling of ALL THAT WATER down below me makes me kind of nauseated. It's like a reverse fear of heights.

I once went to a party in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, and the living room had a Jacuzzi in it with a glass wall overlooking the city. It was the stupidest thing I have ever seen: Roughly fifteen minutes after people started drinking, there was Jacuzzi water being splashed all over the couch, carpeting, walls,…