I think South Park nailed that with the Raisins episode where Butters thinks the waitress is his girlfriend and even brings his parents into Raisins to meet her.

Okay he was clearly a vampire.

Since then I've gotten two shelter dogs and become much more comfortable with this truth. At the time, I had experience only with really calm mellow dogs like the Alaskan Malamute we had growing up who let us dress her up in tutus and makeup. I had no positive experiences with strange and more high energy dogs and so…

That is tragic and I totally agree about animals feeling protective. When my husband walks our dogs, he used to get super nervous when we'd pass other dogs and as a result one of our dogs would feel his tension and fear and think, danger I must protect my master. After we worked on my husband staying calm and in…

"family responsibilities" was a head scratcher for me. What does this mean and how in the world could you discriminate based on family responsibilities? Breast feeding maybe?

THIS! So much this. I read the article and was like what is the injury? There was clearly service provided so you weren't denied service and it seems to boil down to a slur printed on a check. Not saying that's okay, but I fail to see a cause of action.

GOD YES! We have this same problem and also as a side note, this goes for little dogs too. They may not be a hazard but there's a little terrier that runs free and it comes in our yard and poops everywhere! We have an electric fence so she comes in and poops I guess where my dogs walk a lot but guess what, that means…

This is how I got bit too! A little girl had the dog on a leash and it pulled her off her bike so my friend and I who were walking were like crap, we have to walk over to make sure she's okay. We get there and her dog lunges at me she lets go of the leash and I startle. The dog then started lunging at me and I…

Nope. I was addressing your point.

Yeah cause I was the one who brought up suicides and accidental shootings! Oh no I wasn't, that was you... I like riding in the back seat with you.

I did read it, I do not agree with your conclusions. My threshold for acceptable levels of violence is lower than yours. There a lots of incidents involving children who accidentally shoot themselves and other kids, don't think that I'm ready to say three year olds are fucking morons who removed their crazy asses from…

So redefine the terms, leave out some incidents where people don't die or not enough people die, don't count universities, and stop the count before sandy hook.... and you arrive at an acceptable level of in-school violence?

I think Bowling for Columbine really drove this point home for me. He compared the US to Canada, another place with pretty high personal gun ownership, and they have drastically lower rates of gun violence. His conclusion was that the US had this culture of fear where every time we turn on the news were led to believe…

No. You can buy guns from a private seller without the requirements of a background check or registration and what do you mean a license? Do you mean a concealed carry permit? Because you don't need one to own a gun or even to open carry, just to carry a firearm concealed on your person in public. So if you want to…

I live here. I mean RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER from WFU. I am going to look for the Phelpses and the motorcycle club blocking them and if I see them, I'll post photos. I have been wondering if the Phelps would come here.

Scrubs are AWESOME! But I got like 3 stretchy black pants with a built in band from Motherhood maternity for pretty damn cheap. Also, nursing bras. If you'll be carrying mostly in the summer, brace for thousands of people informing you about how hot you're gonna be. Like we all aren't hot in the summer....

Hey see if there is a consignment store in your area that has maternity clothes and maybe then baby stuff. I found one and hit the mother load (pun totally intended). They had nice stuff and far more reasonable prices. Also, my go-to end stage uniform was either long dresses (it was freaking August in the south) and…

I kind of want to bring back quizzing glasses. I imagine it would be quite the elegant way to say a whole lot without saying a damn thing. But monocles, now that's just unnecessarily pretentious ;)

Congratulations! It's funny to hear you talk about doing what you need because that's 100% true. Some post-birth advice: get two packs of giant grannie panties. You know all those period free months you've been enjoying? Yeah well you have to make up for that afterwards and will want some giant, super comfy and…

Yay for your daughter! It took me until I was 21 so good on her.