My mom is a historical preservationist specializing in the Victorian era and she always laughs about this. She’ll joke that she’s “probably inhaled enough arsenic to be immune.” Even though she now wears gloves and sometimes even a mask it certainly wasn’t standard when she started 30 years ago. Whenever we would…

I agree! And when the mommy bloggers get riled up about “chemicals” this and “toxins” that, I always think of those advertisements from the late 19th and early 20th centuries for cocaine toothache drops and laudanum for everything else. Like, you can chill, mommies. We made it this far.

This is fascinating, particularly that the anti-green superstition persists somewhat today.

This was so beautifully written & fascinating. I have to agree though, it amazes me sometimes that we’ve been able to survive as a species as long as we have considering all the toxic (read: deadly) things we’ve put in & on our bodies.

Do you have children?The average 12 year old doesn’t have much concept of sex nor would they have random sex in a bathroom with a stranger unless the child is a victim of sex trafficking. You need to educate yourself. You sound like a disgusting person who thinks children are asking for it when they get sexually…

Child victims of sexual molestation or rape may not appear to object, because they do not understand what is happening to them, and just go along with whatever the adult wants. That's not consent, that's waiting for things to be over.

Twelve year olds can’t consent.

She can’t consent. The law says that very clearly. Doesn’t matter how old someone looks, if they cannot legally consent, it is rape. We don’t know how exactly it went down (and I frankly don’t want to), but those are the bare facts. The fact that this police officer is being an apologist makes him nearly as bad as the…

She did not consent. She is a child, the age of consent is 17 and she is 12. Therefore, no consent.

That’s not unfair assessment. But you assume that the rapist is a scumbag and the officer in charge of helping find said “scumbag” has sensitivity to the victim.

Wait, so you’re telling me that a man that named a female character PUSSY GALORE was a reactionary, lesbophobic misogynist?

One of the best parts (and there have been many) about Daniel Craig’s current GiveNoFucks Bond tour was the exhange when the interviewer asked him what life lessons Bond could give and he was like “well, nothing. He’s actually a misogynist.”

Right after he punched her in the face?

Good thing I forgot to renew my homosexuality subscription, then!

Don’t worry, everything’s gonna be alright. Here’s 26 channels of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Sounds like there were a lot of problems with the bill. I am more concerned with what has happened in Houston. Voters have have overturned the city’s equal rights ordinance, which covers 15 protected groups. This is scary and fucked up because Houston apparently has a reputation for being supportive of LGBTQ rights, i…

It was a bad bill that was encouraging a cartel situation. We need legal marijuana, but not in this way. That's why people voted it down. Apparently, a better bill is in the works for 2016.

Not surprising, though, that people who have a hard time figuring out how franchising works might truly struggle with ANY nuance or higher-order thinking.

Go on, evangelicals, give us more detail about all of those fair-minded Christian groups that you object to.