That's hard though. If it's Mac-a-no-need-Cheese should I just call it Mac n' Cheese when it's not?

Can't win. If you say something you're insufferable, if you keep your mouth shut you're "silently judging". Or people assume you are. This is why I don't usually "come out" as a vegan in a workplace until the topic has somehow become unavoidable - I don't want to play vegan bingo with a bunch of people I have to work…

Holla for the Yellow Dog Project: http://theyellowdogproject.com/The_Yellow_Dog…

If you were a cat with urinary problems. That is literally the only case where I think this applies...

Haha this IS an old post - Merry Christmas! :P

This is all well and good for you, but rarely are a person's religious beliefs nobody's business but their own. As Ossifrage has pointed out, children are indoctrinated into a belief system based on the beliefs of others, punished for not following their arbitrary (when you don't buy their arguments for them) rules.…

I do like this point because I think the null hypothesis is very important in distinguishing the difference between agnosticism and atheism. You're right, you can't prove the null hypothesis, but you would accept the null hypothesis when there is no evidence to the contrary. However, with this analogy I would consider…

I bought a pair of Etiko shoes and wore through the soles in four months (Etiko were kind enough to give me another pair for free). I wager that kale shoes would wear through even faster.

I have actually seen job advertisements with this sort of thing! One I read was ALL CAPS..... AND ELLIPSES .....JUST LIKE THIS..... MUST HAVE EXCELENT (sic) COMMAND OF ENGLISH..... NO TIME WASTERS PLEASE.

I imagine she is still in complete and utter shock, and the way she deals with it in the coming weeks, months and years will change and change many times. Sometimes she will feel optimistic and lucky to be alive, and other times she will feel like saying "Expletive (verb) this expletive (noun)!" and not getting out of…

Agreed. When the decision to be childfree is as respected and treated as normally as the decision to have children, then we can get huffy about those childfree people spouting presumptuous nonsense. Until then, spout away. Childfree people will sometimes say things that upset parents, but each childfree person will…

I'm really interested to hear her position on the role of Knives Chau in Scott Pilgrim, especially as it's author is Korean Canadian.

A bit like Knives Chau from Scott Pilgrim. Hang on, the situation with Knives/Scott/Ramona is a bit like that with Cho/Harry/Ginny... so are we to accuse Bryan Lee O'Malley of the same thing? Perpetuating the stereotype that "girls who look like her are supposed to cry over guys that look like him"?

I don't think it was even specified in the books that she was Asian, let alone which country she originated from. Perhaps the name was chosen for alliteration purposes at the cost of being culturally accurate? I just figured it was a made-up name, and many in the series were pretty weird.

Dairy is animal protein, if I may pick that nit.

"Cupcakes know not feminism nor patriarchy, pain or pleasure, justice or injustice. They just know sprinkles and frosting and love."

I am also on board with team cupcake for what they have done for veganism. Vegan cake is hit and miss, but somehow the proportions of cupcakes, with their high surface area to volume ratio, means they cook so much better in the middle than one huge cake. This can be an issue when eggs must be forgone. Science. There…

Cookies. Now is your time.

I'm sorry if my wording made it sound like I agreed with the point, but "accused of" makes it sound like I disagree entirely with their taking offence, which I don't. I also used the word "implying". So take from that what you will. As I said elsewhere his earlier work backs up an LGBTQ-ally stance, but the people or…