A friend of mine—an assistant DA—once convicted a guy of assaulting a cat. He got a month in jail. She pointed out to me that, had he assaulted his wife, he might have got a week. Maybe.

Banning sex is probably a sign that your coach is flat-out clutching at straws.

Not that anyone asked, but for most recipes that call for buttermilk, substituting plain yogurt works just fine. They're both cultured milk products, and they both provide the acidity to which the baking soda reacts.

The big difference is attitude—the apparent disrespect to the people involved, whose bodies, in this case, were apparently tossed out like garbage.

I'm sure your brother and SIL are great dog-owners, but that's hardly the point.

Misleading how? Really, I am not a lawyer. Not even close.

They are indeed.

What's particularly off-putting is that the family who insists on keeping the dog is (according to the news report) a military family. You'd expect them to respect a soldier's property.

I'm sure there must have been a vociferous argument—simultaneously horrifying and entertaining—against repeal.

Going by Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims_i…), which agrees with you that it's the 3rd-largest in the US after Judaism and every freaking convention, archdiocese, church, synod and store-front chapel that characterizes itself as Christian. However, that works out to only 0.8% of the US population or…

Bear in mind that—Muslims being relatively rare in the US—most of these self-appointed experts on Islam, on what Muslims all think, and what Muslims want, and what Muslims do, and what Muslims hope, and what Muslims talk about when we're not around have never met a Muslim in their lives.

All the more for me.

What I'd really love to see is a Ms. Frizzle fashion line, with those themed dress/shoes/earrings ensembles.

I love the accessories. Their contribution is that, instead of looking like some bimbo in a see-through dress, she looks like a rich 20s flapper in a see-through dress.

nasty, defensive jerk

It also has nothing to do with "mansplaining;" there is the concept, you know, of just EXplaining to someone who doesn't seem to understand

Oh gosh—is that what she meant? Wooooooo, I woulda never figured that out on my own. Well, well, well, you certainly have given me something to ponder . . .

I don't like these guys either, but how big of a deal is this?

A lot of this crap comes from the custom of ending a fashion show with a wedding dress. Not all designers are into wedding dresses, so they play it for laughs or shock.

Psychotic.