I was born in NYC in early 1975. My parents met because they lived in the same building in Washington Heights, where all the hipster (read: white) young people got to know each other and play music, smoke pot and whatnot. My dad wore a cape until the dry cleaner lost it. Anyway, it didn't work out between them :( …

I know. My nemesis is some nameless lady that calls her relatives from the train on our evening commute. Also, the junior colleague who asks too many questions.

You don't know right from wrong. Your moral compass is broken. Your empathy is non existent. I am done talking to you.

You got me. Honestly, I didn't want to challenge her belief system by being too aggressive in my questions. I think she just gets a lot out of it.

Well, without details of the case, it's impossible to say. For instance, if the Presbyterian church had knowledge that a child had been abused before on their property, they might be liable — obviously a court thought so.

I have a devout coworker who is also incredibly socially liberal about many things (she's pro-choice (or, at least not anti-choice), pro gay marriage, etc.). I asked her about how that jibes with stuff that was coming out of the Pope Benedict's mouth at the time and she said that for her and other members of her…

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Are you trying to say that parents, victims, and other people should have sat by while the Church allowed known pedophiles abuse thousands and thousands of children?

No no no no no. First of all, bonding is a tapestry and we can get away with a lot of imperfections (not saying Ferber is an imperfection). You know your child, you bond with her and give her reassurances a million times a day. Now, if you were leaving her in her crib to cry and pushing her hand away whenever she…

Sorry! I meant purposeful isolation and rejection of cries for securities and comfort. (Throw in some lack of stimulating activities, as the Harrises did, for additional intellectual and emotional atrophy.)

I sincerely hope that the state is charging them for the costs of caring for their legal children.

My CAT has permanent neurosis and anxiety because his first owners relegated him to a basement by himself.

That is the exact opposite of how you bond children in security.

Honestly? I wonder how much of it had to do with the fact they were two white girls at really, really adorable ages.

If you read the article, the situation was even more complicated than that. The kids were in foster care — AND FLOURISHING — but the mother approached the Harrises for a private adoption because she assumed DHS was about to terminate her rights. So rather than have them go into the system, she thought she was…

Since it follows the first mention of "citizens" prior to the semicolon, I read "person" as "citizen", but you're probably right.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State…

Maybe it was a sign of how sure he was this time :)

I hope you don't mind, but after that story I'm always going to picture you as Kristin Wiig.

Behind his mother.

I'm not allowed to mention what I consider my "proposal". My husband absolutely denies it.