The expression of the child in the middle is the best possible explanation for why Santa was created.

I’m a huge fan of Ms. Merlan, I think she greatly elevates the journalistic skill and integrity of not just Gawker, but all of the blogosphere.

You have it backwards. Costco fired Amex, and since they have a weak business model (all the risks, none of the credit), Amex had to settle. Strangely, the target demographics couldn’t be more dissimilar.

I agree with 99% of this, but I’m uneasy that, at least from this summary, it appears that a 1 week preg. Person being cuffed is treated the same as a shackled person in labor. Seems ham handed.

Because landlords don’t have the right to let anyone without a court order into your apartment outside a very narrow exception to protect the property.

Well. It is. It’s not transphobic to realize that marriage to, co parenting with, our living with, a person in transition comes with its own set off problems. This doesn’t mean people don’t have a right to transition, but certainly we can be allies to both.

In most US laws, it’s thought that salaried workers can protect themselves,.

I think each partner overestimates how much they do, and how little their partner does. I promise that both my spouse and I would claim the same chores.

I think I am married to you. This veil of anonymity gives me the courage to say what I have always felt.

THEN YOU WASH THE F’ING DUVEE COVER EVERY WEEK. I KNOW YOU NIGHT SWEAT!!

Marriage still serves one vital purpose, it allows you to pick your Next of Kin and (assuming Tom Delay doesn’t get involved) the go-to person when your incapacitated .

That is worth something.

Here is an honest question that our Marriage Counselor * told us to ask: “Will he/she not do it, or not do it the way I like?” Our household is pretty fairly split, but there are certain things that the other person does in a way we don’t recognize. For example. IMHO, if dishes aren’t cleaned and put away before we go…

No, they are full, gun-carrying, police with arrest powers.

No, its actually one of the cited reasons for these types of laws. Not all RFA laws are the same, most were created to allow Muslim inmates to have beards, churches to give away food, and NAs to smoke peyotes

you would want a passive mutual fund or exchange traded fund (etf). In short you are buying shares in a company that does nothing but own stocks or bonds.

not if you are a minority.

You can't gerrymander the Senate, unless you are a rich, white male . . . born before 1745.

Blame those victims! You can't possibly expect a teacher to know not to rape all on her own!

Please point to a single source that put CA in the top half of states by school achievement. Or shut up and realize that we are slowly becoming Texas, high on pride, low on results, and dependent solely on advantageous geography.

Correct, the only really live issue is whether an employer can fire a trans employee solely for being trans. (i.e. Trans employee says she or he is a Trans person, but does not present in any way). However, you cannot fire someone, male or female, for "acting like a girl".

Its like Legal Research and Writing Class all over again.