Correction: to enter the Navy yard you have to show a nonexpired badge proving that you have clearance to enter the premises, which the shooter did have. However to enter the building that he shot up, which houses Navsea and some other sensitive program offices, you have to have specific clearance for that building,…

Margaret Sanger was also a noted racist and avid proponent of eugenics, if I remember correctly, so you'll have to excuse me for not breaking out the wine in her honor.

Really? Blurred Lines does sound very inspired by Marvin Gaye, but it's not a direct rip off as far as my plebian ears can determine.

While I love that quote and it's very apt, I'm really just popping in to say: that book was one of the most unexpectedly disturbing things I have ever read.

Baby bamboo (i.e. bamboo shoots) is totally edible! It's called takenoko in Japan and while the texture is a bit weird at first it's delicious!

I live in Ireland, and while I generally enjoy it quite a bit, I do think there is something to be said for there being a bit more behind on gender equality than the average western country.

Seriously? Even N. Ireland isn't actually a part of Britain.

Meh honestly not a whole lot of people outside of Ireland are aware that the Irish equivalent of parliament is called the Dail. Hell I've even heard commentators on the BBC and Sky News refer to it as the "Irish parliament" in passing.

It's because European racism is heavily based in xenophobia and anti-immigrant attitudes. So black North Americans being westerners and therefore not total outsiders, they tend to be viewed much more positively as a group than African immigrants or the children of those immigrants.

While it'd be hypocritical if toe shoes were a personal deal breaker, smelly toe shoes would be an immense deal breaker. They're machine washable, so there is no excuse for that nonsense.

It's not based on a stereotype, it's based on a whole load of behavioural economics studies. Women are more risk averse than men on average. Therefore increasing the number of women on Wall St will increase the average risk aversion of Wall St.

I live in Dublin, and this gave me a chuckle when I saw it floating around the Irish-blogosphere a few days back! But, I personally like to imagine that the anonymous boob-coverer was actually more concerned with that god awful tattoo than the under boob.

This is pushing all of my rage buttons right now. I have a highly quantitative background, and I interviewed for a position at the European branch of an American trading firm last month. After about 8 hours of interviews and aptitude testing (which I passed), I was told that they "thought I had the potential to be a…

See, I've never heard HNIC either, which is probably why I didn't make the connection with HBIC. Is this a regional racial slur? I grew up just outside of DC originally, which is a pretty diverse area, but it does get really rural very fast when you drive south, so I'm kind of shocked I've never encountered either…

Yeah, I'm millennial/GenY and American, and I've only really ever heard it in regards to women in power getting stereotyped as being "overbearing" or "bitchy".

You just blew my mind a bit. I've heard people use HBIC and it's never occurred to me that it had that sort of origin.

Yeah the shoes give it away pretty easily.

ENTJ/INTJ (I literally score 50-50 in the first category, but really strongly in the latter ones) over here, so I basically come in quietly-judging-you AND "truth-telling" modes. I prefer to think of us as polarizing. People either find our type really refreshing or really off putting, with little in between.

I kind of assumed you were trolling, because otherwise that question is mind-numbingly stupid. So if you would prefer 'idiot' over 'troll', then by all means, proceed accordingly.

You're asking if everyone would be just as outraged if someone locked a human in a tiny cage & force them to breed for 12 years? I'm going to take a wild guess over here and go with "yes, yes everyone would be pretty pissed."