They added an age and distance filter, which is awesome because I'm not driving 50 miles to get a drink with someone.

For whatever it's worth, Tinder doesn't give anyone access to your Facebook, it just pulls your name, age, and up to 5 photos (that you pick). Anyone who wants to friend you on Facebook has to search for you and send a request.

I imagine it depends on the state, but in MN the minor mother can be placed with her child. I've seen at least one foster care notice for a 16 year old girl with an infant who would be coming with her to any new foster home.

The death penalty was not abolished in the US because rapists began killing their victims. When the Supreme Court first invalidated the death penalty for rape in 1977, it was only allowed in one state (Georgia). Since then the Supreme Court has heard a number of cases related to imposing the death penalty for crimes…

The very short version is that the case got some local coverage until December, when the New York Times published a long feature article about it. That drew national and international attention the way some things do online, and shortly thereafter Anonymous got involved.…

Damnit, my reply was supposed to go somewhere else and apparently I can't delete it? I love Kinja.

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The deceased lady wasn't driving. She was a passenger in the car.

Perhaps if you had read the story more carefully you would have noticed that the woman who was shot was not driving. She was a passenger in the car.

Very common misconception, but "right to work" actually refers to whether or not you can be required to join the union if you get a job in a union environment. What you are referring to is actually called "at will" employment and is nearly universally true in the US.

If we ignore the extreeeeemely racist history surrounding black women and their appearance... it would still be fucking sexist for him to suggest that she needs to have long hair because she's a woman.

They also breed like rabbits. I think the average pit litter is something like 8 or 9 puppies and they tend to all survive.

Just curious, how do you deal with her missing teeth? Does she just gum her food?

That never made sense to me, either. I love black cats, but maybe that's because my first cat was black.

Yeah, birthers are idiots: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/ssn.asp

The inclusion of "Soetoro" (Obama's stepfather's last name) suggests the letter writer is a birther. One of the birther "theories" is that Obama was born in the US but gave up his citizenship at some point while living in Indonesia with his family. They falsely claim that Obama enrolled at Occidental as a foreign…

For that matter, different religious groups do prevent non-members from seeing sacred parts of their religion. Only a small portion of the main LDS temple in Salt Lake City is open to the public - the rest of it is restricted to members of their faith.

"If we make it off limits, complicated, and socially taboo to discuss or display Native American art and culture it keeps us separate in and in the dark."

This is a very common misconception, but pedophilia does not refer to someone who has sex with a teenager, who is physically an adult but legally a minor. It specifically refers to someone who is attracted to prepubescent children.

I've heard this here before, but it bears repeating: adoption is a solution to not wanting to raise a child. It is not a solution to not wanting to be pregnant or give birth.