I completely agree with you that "fitness" and "progress" are different; my other comments here have probably been more clear on this. What I meant was, the way that evolution is routinely deployed in cultural arguments is based on this misunderstanding of evolution as progress.

Furthermore equating Evolution with Progress is a highly insidious misunderstanding of evolution. Evolution simply adapts organisms to better make use of their current living conditions (for example, a strain of tetra fish living in a totally dark cave lost the use of sight over time, this adapts them better to live…

See, I kiiiiinda feel like her whole "Bed of Roses" section equates monogamy with idealized romance, and that's just not the case. I mean, she may not have intended for it to come across that way, but it really reads that way to me.

See this is where I sideeye because you just made a comment about how you are now seeing other men But here you've just said your husband is prefers monogamy. So your husband's choice was either lose you or just make himself ok with the fact that you're going to see other people? How is that not coercion?

The SC300/SC400 still looks sexy to me as well.

That's what I thought.

Good grief that's terrifying.

other than my beard

Too much money for an old gray market Merc. I'd have clicked NP if it was $5k.

Same thing goes for my SC400. It's styling hasn't aged at all.

I don't know about anyone else but that Lexus still looks extremely attractive. I might just be a sucker for 80's/90's styling but it still looks damn fine.

good point —- slippery slope

Good to know.

guess what! Free speech doesn't include racism.

it was definitely a planned stopping of fighting. If you think about it, it kinda makes sense with the difficulties of communications in a war zone. If one side got the message before the other the results could be rather messy. Better to let the stalemate continue for an extra day so they could coordinate the cease…

Would you like to be the guy responsible for making the decision to poke the US government and taking it on faith that they won't retaliate against you? Particularly when state secrets are involved?

The judge could find Yahoo! in contempt of court and impose fines. It's fairly common.

As a large woman from a family of large women, I love this! (seriously, at 6', I'm the little one)

Wow, interesting and well put. Thanks!

All of this, yes.