Given the judge’s penchant for the internet.... I think you’re probably right.

Yup. In my experience, music companies are EXTREMELY pro-active in demanding fees from anyone who might possibly consider playing a song that might belong to them. I direct a small non-profit organization where we have live music played by volunteers at an annual event; BMI harrassed me for months demanding annual…

Fucking RIAA-affiliated asswipes will file DCMA claims against anyone and anything, just to see if it sticks. For them, the worst case is that it makes life more difficult and unpleasant for anyone who dares to make music without being beholden to a horrible corporate behemoth like themselves. It’s a way of slapping…

I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve got a computer running an algorithm throwing DMCA requests at anything that resembles a song they’ve got.

Publishers can, and often do, file them for anything with a similar title. It’s been known for teachers to get these against them when hosting student’s original works because eod the titles.

After the video was shown during the wedding.

Somebody had to edit the video! This seems a little far fetched.

Yes yes yes yes YASSSSSSS

And open enrollment is not year long, so if you’re laid off in August you’re not eligible to obtain insurance through the marketplace until January of next year. And you cannot be put on the list to become eligible for a transplant without some type of insurance due to the complications and lifelong medications that…

Once you adopt the intrusive questions never end either. “Why didn’t you adopt one of the free ones right here in the US?” Or “you know all those babies are trafficked right? Did you steal your baby?” Or when you tell then you are actually adopting an older child then it’s “oh, what’s wrong with him?” OR “so he has…

Gaffigan: tell me about it

Right? It’s the “just” in just adopt that makes me crazy. Personally my partner and I are childfree and if we ever decide to expand the family we know adoption —probably an older child, ideally siblings— is the best decision for us. But just because it’s an easy choice for us doesn’t mean it’s easy or right for…

I feel the same way when people talk about abortion alternatives. “If you have an unintended pregnancy and you can’t care for the child don’t get an abortion, just give it up for adoption!” Like its just that freaking simple. You carry a child for 9 months, go through all of the medical issues & financial burden…

I think you make an amazing point, which is that people tend to treat adoption like it’s sort of the dregs of having children - “Oh, nothing else worked for you and you’re a complete failure? I guess it’s ADOPTION time”. It’s a subtle reinforcement that adoption and adopted families are lesser, not the same, what…

A kit just makes so much sense especially since for awhile she may be too embarrassed to procure those items for herself. I think it would be sweet if you kind of made this a mother-daughter thing that you talk about. My mom sort of did this for me and my sister when we were younger, made it sort of a mock secret…

For menstrual cups I know they have become MUCH more widely popular in Europe than North America, so puberty books that come from those areas would be much more likely to include them I would think?

She planned the whole thing to upstage the bride. Taylor is very much in control of her image and I’m shocked you can’t see through it.

Seconding the care of keeping you.
Don’t let the fact that it’s an American Girl book put you off of it.

Check out the books by Deborah Roffman. She’s an incredibly awesome sex educator and, while I think her books may be geared more toward being helpful for you to talk to your daughter (rather than things just to hand to her and be done with it), they might be really helpful.

I bought the American Girl The Care And Keeping of You, #1 for my 9 year year old a few months ago. It's been great for us, answered a lot of questions, spurred a lot of good conversation. Highly recommend it and the companion Feelings book.