Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson features a kick-ass young heroine and it's a great read. It's an adult book, but a 17 year old should be able to handle it. I have also always loved Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series (set in a Tolkien-esque fantasy world rather than a dystopian future), and Guy Gavriel Kay's…

No real advice, but here's my kitten asleep on my hand:

My dog just got spayed last week and yesterday she managed to shatter her cone of shame. There was a shocking amount of junk-licking before we managed to get another cone and get it on her.

Tomorrow's my birthday and I have a lunch planned with friends/acquaintances, and dinner plans with my family, and about a thousand errands to run in between. And I feel like this is a not-important birthday (it's not a milestone and it's making me feel old). And my period just started. We're 3 weeks away from the end…

Third season, episode 15 - The Bubble. Aunt Paulette was a cocktail waitress with a droopy eye, according to Tracy.

*By someone everyone else seems to trust and worship. Brrrr.

I'm with you. I have kids and animals. I don't think (and I don't think you think) the world is a special playground for my little snowflake children, or some such thing. But while I teach my kids to be careful and respectful around dogs, that doesn't help me much when I push my stroller out of a shop and there's an…

Co-signed.

... Pastor Skip?

Aw, you're cute. I'll be sure to tell him and his PhD all about you.

Not the only bar, of course. Just, as the OP suggested, a handy low (as you put it) one for filtering out guys who can't even meet that low standard.

Murder is used for humans in specific circumstances. It is a defined term in criminal law, and it means certain kinds of "culpable homicide" in the Canadian criminal code ("manslaughter" is another culpable homicide, that is not defined as murder). Of course, that's just the legal use of the word, but people do kill…

I kind of addressed this in another post - I took it to mean that good guys don't kick you to the curb because they think your choice of language is "unladylike". My husband doesn't swear half as much as I do, and gets his nose a bit out of joint when I say things like "crap" or "hell" in front of our sons (who are 9…

I swear like the dad on That 70s Show. With the occasional fuck thrown in. My husband gets his nose out of joint when I say crap or damn or hell around the kids.

My imagined response: "Listen, asshole. If you want someone who gives a shit about your idea of ladylike and your bloody ridiculous limit of 3, you should never have been with me in the first goddamned place. I'm sorry you're so butthurt about the wedding. And not that I have anything personally against your precious…

That is the best image. Just, absolutely, the best.

What the hell is wrong with people?! Dude's an actual adult human being with his own life. That is a really messed up fan response :(

I thought you meant the women's sisters, and I was about to be all "actually, I know many sets of sisters who've had to deal with shit like this."

I'm from a farming town, and this one chokes me up every time. All this trouble in our fields - if this rain can fall, these wounds can heal. They'll never take our native soil, and if we sell that new John Deere, we can work this farm with sweat and tears. You be the mule, I'll be the plow, come harvest time we'll…

Makes me very sad.