Who cares? Maybe the bride and groom don't want an insanely hard-core dance party. My husband and I hate nightclubs and dancing and party music, so our wedding had plenty of rock and some classical, because that's what we liked.

OMG, if you ever do a vow renewal, can I come? Please? That sounds FANTASTIC.

Hell no. A wedding is essentially a themed party. If I'm throwing a big, fancy party with a specific theme—wedding, Nightmare Before Christmas, '70s night, whatever—and you don't like that kind of theme, don't come to the party. You are more than welcome to RSVP a polite no and save yourself an unenjoyable evening.

I honestly don't understand why you would smash up a chocolate bar instead of using chocolate chips. Don't you end up with a bunch of differently-sized bits of chocolate? Chocolate chips are all the same size, which means the chocolate is evenly distributed. It seems like you'd have some cookies with tiny shreds of…

Bazinga!

That seriously sounds like the greatest vacation of all time.

Is it horribly evil to want to not have to explain why your child doesn't look like you every single day of your life? I haven't adopted transracially, but I know quite a few parents who have, and it's not an easy thing. For an extreme example, I know a woman who nearly had the police called on her in a grocery store…

I often don't bother to preheat if I'm going to cook something for an hour or so and it's covered, like baked chicken. It's fine, and I don't waste any electricity heating up an oven with no food in it (electricity is REALLY expensive where I live, so I hate wasting any). I would never do that with something like…

For Christmas, my six-year-old got a design-your-own-circuits electrical kit, a telescope, and a home science projects book. For her birthday next month, she'll be getting a microscope. This article is fucking stupid: If anything, there are far more educational and science-oriented kids' things than every before.…

Supposedly, they make money from the lawsuits. Almost all of Phelps's kids are lawyers. Wikipedia says they've won at least $200,000 (that was just in one suit in the 1990s), but it's hard to imagine they've won enough to keep all 40 or 50 of them living well for twenty years now. They've also lost some suits, so who…

Probably on the beach, eating sandy PB&J sandwiches and shouting, "Put on your floaties! Did you wait an hour before eating? No peeing in the ocean!"

:dies laughing

The sad triceratops and Van Gogh made me sniffle, but I totally laughed at Rory, who dies every day!

The twenty or so comments about how American parents are "stealing babies" or "buying babies" are just gross. Then there's the ones that say that everyone who wants to adopt transnationally is either racist or just wants to play the hero and rescue sad, foreign babies.

I thought that must be a typo in the article. Is someone's name really "Porsha"? Not "Portia" or "Porsche"? :sigh

THANK YOU. I used to work for a social work lobby group that worked on behalf of foster and adoptive children. Nearly every comment on here is making me want to throw my computer across the room.

This also freezes adoptions that are currently in progress. That is, there are families out there who have spent years waiting to finally have a child and are getting ready to go meet their beloved new baby, and now that's all been destroyed. It's utterly heartbreaking.

IIRC, there was a Law and Order episode about exactly that: Some sleazy business owner fired a bunch of employees for things like smelling weird or wearing orange too often or being taller than him, and a court said they couldn't sue him because those weren't illegal reasons to fire someone. And then I think one of…

Agreed. I've never heard of this movie, but that clip totally made me want to see it.

I imagine he or she means that if a designer makes a sample dress for the runway in a particular size, then any model who hopes to walk the runway has to fit into that size. They don't make the dresses to fit the models (although fabric can be cut to any size without dying of starvation), they make the models fit the…