Except further reports have come out about how one of the kids faces was covered in bruises and the child who was killed had a huge piece of his lip hanging off. So yeah, the shelter workers clearly missed some pretty significant signs here and they should be held accountable.

God yes, this. I'm imagining this poor guy/girl working long hours, doing a physically demanding job, just trying to get some peoples lost luggage back to them and writing a hastily scribbled note in their non-native language and then they get shit all over for it? I mean, I read this article expecting the person to…

Considering Aristotle didn't speak English, I find that very hard to believe.

Who are these "extreme liberals" I keep hearing about? Do they have their own version of the Tea Party? Do they influence public policy at all? Do they manage to shut down government? Please elaborate, I'm all ears.

I mean, if we're talking little kids, then I totally agree with you, but any kid over 14, is going to have already seen sex and violence in a lot less cerebral media than this already. I mean, where do you draw the line? I think a lot of reality TV has far, far less value than GOT, but there's no real outrage over…

I don't know, I think once you've read the books, what's the point in tiptoeing around the show? And some kids are really precocious readers. I'd read The Name of the Rose, Schindlers List and every single Wilbur Smith book by the time I was 14. Some visual T & A was not going to scar me for life once I'd read in…

OHHH SHIIII……oh wait, I’m over 30 so probably safely in the “Way too old, gross, as if I’d fuck someone the same age as me” category. Thank Christ.

Enjoy being a fucking goldfish, then.

Empathy and understanding are two totally different things. I can empathise with abuse survivors, but I’ll never actually understand what it’s like. That’s the basis of my non-judgement.

Uh…sounds like he had a bunch of issues that were totally unrelated to anything you might have said to him.

Putting clothes on an object that has been placed in your environment (an environment you are paying tens of thousands of dollars to inhabit no less), is not censorship. Beauty is subjective. My giant paper-mache sculpture of Justin Beiber is the most goddamn glorious thing I’ve ever seen*, but I don’t expect everyone…

I’m not actually talking about bigots who don’t vote anti-gay, I’m talking about those who do. Maybe I’m confused because on the one hand you hate anti-gay politicians, but on the other you seemed to be excusing voters who actually put those anti-gay politicians into power by saying they vote out of economic…

I live in a country with a very high minimum wage and very low unemployment, so clearly that's not true. If you're relying on the tax-payer to subsidise the wages of people employed by private companies for no reason than to maximise shareholder profits, than something is very, very wrong. I mean, maybe it's a…

So the homophobes in your family don't vote for anti-gay politicians, which is great, but not my point. You say you save your anger for the politicians who push bigoted legislation, but my point is those politicians don't appear, fully-formed, from nowhere. They have to see that there are political gains to be made in…

Great, more power to you and whatever brand of guilt-trip, judgemental feminism you subscribe to.

No, you’re not out there with a sign calling women murderers. You’re just on a feminist website, full of women who’ve had abortions ‘just wondering’ and ‘tripping out’ about the ability of total strangers to appreciate life. In a totally non-judgemental way, of course. If calling that a load of insidiously damaging…

Ladies showing their ankles, the printing press and when they translated the Bible into English.

Wow, really? You know of a single conservative politician who pushes anti-gay legislation and who also gives one single flying fuck about the poor or working class? They're usually the ones who constantly tell the poor they need to bootstrap their way out of financial hardship, that welfare queens are stealing all our…

I'm not even Canadian or American, I don't have a dog in this fight. I just really needed to get that Bryan Adams thing off my chest. I've been holding it in for over 20 years. This...this feels like closure.

I kind of trip off this attitude that abortions are no big deal... It really makes me wonder about people's attitudes and appreciation for life, their ability to potentially create another life, or their ability to nix that potential for life.