Yeah, I think it's a dick move that we fill toddlers' time with watching shit that only needs their attention span for 1-4 minutes at a time and then get pissed at them in school when they have no attention span. Like, what did we expect to happen when all they do is watch commercials and play video games?

I say we make CFTs indistinguishable form NJPs.
Activity 1: Burn wagbags for thirty days without any protective layers.
Activity 2: Fill 10,000 sandbags in full PPE.
Activity 3: Permanent S4 working party.

Right, this is one of those things that people aren't talking about: stress has been shown to have clear, measurable effects on a fetus. But we freak out about a glass a wine a week or the occassional weed based on faulty studies. I'd like some actual, measurable and non freaked-out discussion about this topic, urg.

Thank you for making me feel justified. I told Mr. Temperance that if we have a kid, said kid gets absolutely NO screen time until at least 2.5, and even then, no tablet computers.

Facebook comes up in divorces frequently for the same reason that phone messages and emails do. People aren't meeting new partners on Facebook. They're using it to reconnect to their high school sweethearts, or are using the messaging system to flirt with that friend from their running club.

As someone raised Catholic in the Bible Belt, at least two of those (and possibly all three) wouldn't even be considered "Christian" by most evangelicals.

Pretty sure no one is saying "Women who drank 15 drinks per week had better behaved kids." Heavy drinking puts you at risk for FAS. But equating that with a glass a week is a bit absurd.

For all expectant moms out there, I can really recommend this book "Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What you Really Need to Know" by Emily Oster. She's an economist and tackles all the big pregnancy myths/sayings and looks at all the research done in the area from around the world,…

I guess when meet the bad guys on the playground, they'll likely win now.

I don't really see what the problem is. If physical strength is a necessary requirement for a job, and I would imagine being a marine is one of those jobs, then set a standard and stick with it. I don't see how we benefit by watering down standards and in this case it's clear that while not all women can pass the…

Christ. Doesn't anybody name their kids Mary and John anymore?

That's really shitty :( I'm not "fat" but I'm always worried that someone will shoot me a weird look at the gym. If it actually happened, I don't think I'd feel comfortable going back.

Hasn't this been known for a while?

To me, trends in obesity are kind of like looking at abortion rates - they don't tell the whole story. Say more women are getting abortions. Is that because there are more unplanned pregnancies, or because by de-stigmatizing abortion more women are willing to consider it, or because more women who are getting pregnant…

My heart breaks for this woman. She doesn't know the difference between your and you're. So sad.

Not to sound like a grammar elitist, but it's not too hard to figure out how this girl got duped.

That's how I am. I have some friends who say that the "boot camp" mentality is motivating, but I wonder about it ... Even if it is motivating, you still have to internalize that message that you have to be at the top of your game or worth nothing at all, or that having excess fat is something that needs (as in, you're…

Nah, I think she's of the Megan 'I'd strangle a mountain ox to be with Olivia Wilde' Fox variety; the type of person who makes out and/or talks about women for the sole purpose of being 'edgy'.

You know, I'm sort of bored in my current career and every once in awhile toy with the idea of getting certified as a personal trainer and starting a body-positive training studio. So often it seems like the fitness community tries to use self-loathing as motivation for a person to lose weight, while I've always…

I've always wondered if people save their more intense rage for "the other person", because it is easier to think really horrible thoughts about them. As opposed to having all those hateful thoughts about the person you love/care about. You have no emotional attachment to the other person and can therefore hope they…