I know you wrote this hours ago, but thank you for this.

Hmmm.. I'm old enough to remember when married Anglican and Episcopalian priests were welcomed into the Catholic Church with open arms if they were not able to cope with the the decision to ordain women. They didn't splinter over that. I doubt that they'll completely plinter over this. Then again, there are a fair…

Watch the full cartoon from which the clip is taken. The joke is that Bugs Bunny is actually punishing the United States by removing Florida from the continent. So, I guess the animators didn't realize how this clip would be used when they first created it.

Sadly, for some people that gif never gets old. And, of course, Florida is obviously the only state in the union that has ever had a teacher arrested on charges like these. Sigh.

McCartney wrote that song when he was about 19 or 20.

Or, we can look at it this way...if you are not one of the two people in the relationship it's really none of your business. I've been with a man 22 years my senior for 17 years now. I was in my thirties and he was in his fifties when we met. Why do we have to justify ourselves and our choices more than any other…

Oh, thank you so much for this! I taught Half of Yellow Sun to high school students back in 2009 and until 2012 and I wasn't exactly breaking ground even then. Adichie had been on our programme's recommended authors list for some time at that point.

I don't necessarily agree that diaspora communities get stuck at the time of the split. Rather, they grow and change within a new culture and before long they are just quite different from the culture that their grandparents left. Most Americans of Irish descent wouldn't presume that they represent modern Ireland…

I hate the way news stories from Disney World are said to come from "Lake Buena Vista" Florida when that is a place that doesn't really exist. It's just Disney World. Fake town for a creepily fake place.

I'm pretty sure the organizers of these parades (who are what my father would have called pseudo-Irish anyway) don't spend two seconds learning about or considering what attitudes are in Ireland. These parades are an attempt to acknowledge a diaspora and have nothing to do with Ireland as an actual place. You wind…

Good for Guinness for standing up for the rights of Americans to carry a banner in a parade once a year I guess, but I hope they decide to be equally outspoken about the fact that back in Ireland there is no same sex marriage, sex changes are not recognized, and gay couples may not adopt children, although they may…

Here's something more to stoke your rage. Retirement pay for an even an O-5 with 27 years of service works out to about $63K per year. He'll get an annual raise of about 3.5% over and above that each year. Plus, he's likely to get a well-paid job with some defense contractor because he was a general and he is still…

Thank you. Women at the high school where I teach were encouraged to wear "Save Second Base" tee-shirts to work a couple of years ago on a Friday in October. I was infuriated and pretty much cemented my reputation as "strident feminist" among much of the staff. The other women either thought the tee-shirts were…

If you Google the Keep a Breast Foundation, which peddles these bracelets, you'll see that they claim to raise "awareness." They don't donate money to breast cancer research. In fact, they've gotten a lot of flak for donating almost nothing (anywhere from $6K to $100K) in grants while having raked in $5 million in…

Yes, I know they raise funds for breast cancer research and they raise funds outside of Southern California, too. I still don't like the way they frame their message. A woman is more than her breasts. Obviously, we are all free to differ.

This case is asinine but, as the daughter of a mother who died of breast cancer, I'm sorry but I have absolutely no time and not much tolerance for "I Heart Boobies" bracelets or "Save Second Base" tee-shirts or "Save the Ta-Ta's" bumper stickers. Save a woman's life — that should be the message.

Yes, the CNN story did not fit the timeline as outlined in the story linked above or even in their own. I couldn't figure out if it meant that her neighbors had been worried about her before she was actually dead or if the dates were wrong due to sloppy reporting or writing.

I think it might be the latter. She's been dead all this time.

According to CNN it was a neighbor who cut her grass and another neighbor had a welfare check done back in 2007 because the woman hadn't been seen around for a long time.

According to CNN, one of her neighbors cut her lawn regularly. They also had the information that one of her other neighbors called the police for a welfare check in 2007 because no one had seen this woman for a while. They apparently didn't think anything was amiss. The whole story is very strange.