I’ve heard too many stories of old ladies dying on gurneys in hospital hallways. My great aunt was left on a gurney, without a blanket overnight in an NYC hospital. She didn’t die, but she said it was the worst night of her life.

These aren’t the most popular names of 2015, or the fastest growing, etc. These are the top name reported among users of one particular site, nameberry.com

We know it’s a boy because of early screenings. So, we actually tested every way til Tuesday at a fertility clinic because of our age, and it was taking us a while to conceive again. We were thinking that if there were issues, we’d go with genetically tested IVF. Turns out, we didn’t need any intervention, but the…

Hey, I had two miscarriages in a six month period, and am now 16 weeks and going great. It really is the luck of the (egg) draw. I was terrified to try a third time, and I’d be lying if I said the first trimester wasn’t frightening, but twice isn’t a foregone conclusion.

On US bases no less.

Here’s a NYT story on the subject from a couple of months ago. It’s definitely an article you have to stop and take breaks from. Soldiers claim that abuse was happening on base and that they were told to ignore it.

I didn’t say that. Frankly, it’s bizarre that that’s what you took from what I wrote. It’s also bizarre to imply that victims just shrug their shoulders and go on as if nothing happened, and if that’s what happens to Sansa, then the entire interlude with Bolton is, from a narrative point of view, absolutely pointless…

I disagree. I truly believe that Sansa miraculously avoiding forced marriage and rape in the books is truly significant in terms of story telling AND her character arc. I’d go even further and say that the complete destruction of Jeyne Poole — who remember is a stand in for Sansa — acts as a reminder of what Sansa…

In the books, it matters that Sansa doesn’t get raped. It really matters. It also really matters that Theon gets tortured and maimed. It really matters.

It doesn’t matter whether you find it convincing or not. It is what it is. The government cannot use its power to inhibit the protected speech of citizens. Period. By all means, find me an example of case law where a high court said it was a-okay for a government body to demand retribution for protected acts of speech…

It’s a government mandated punishment for the exercise of free speech. It’s about as open and shut as it gets. The open intent is chill speech.

I get to leave my husband in bed, home from his university job, for two weeks as I sludge off to work, and then come home to him, still in his PJs, playing the video games I got him for Christmas.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It’s government mandated punishment of an expression of free speech, as defined (repeatedly) by the Supreme Court. It’s one of the few instances of consequences of speech that does fall squarely under the First Amendment.

I would also add that technically speaking, the first book in the series is by far the best. It’s structurally sound and well put together. While I enjoyed the series (after I got over issues with the prose), the later books were kind of a mess.

They’re kids books. Kids read them and enjoy them, and they have more lasting power with people who read them as middle-graders. That said, there was a definite shift to what I would consider not terribly complex YA themes in the fourth book, as the themes shift to disillusionment about how adults run the world. But…

We definitely have the ability to make equipment that takes advantage of how women best carry weight, instead of just relying on shoulder and chest strength. For instance, we’ve got these amazing hips.

And you understand that less muscle mass is required to move lighter loads, right?

No, I think they’re heavy, and I think training and equipment has been directed to bigger bodies over time, but that it isn’t necessarily, well, necessary.

Honestly, I think there is a good argument for starting with gender-segregated units. My guess is that IF equipment and training (and testing) is adjusted for typical female physiology, all-female units will match or exceed all-male units in the field.