I am so happy for you! I love cats but my living conditions do not allow me to have any. I had two foster kittens last fall, and it broke my heart to give them up. Congrats!

That is a weird, lying-for-the-sake-of-lying lie. As others have said, get out.

Clearly going to get lost in the greys at this juncture, but. I’m going to NYC for the very first time ever on Sunday! I’ve lived and traveled all over the world, but have somehow never gotten there before. I’m only in the city for a few hours between my flights, but I’m still super excited. Especially because not…

I pick something I am desperate to watch and make a deal with myself that I can watch it after I do 30 minutes of work on the task. By the time I hit the 3o minute mark I’m most often over the procrastination.

I suck at parking - I have no depth perception when I look to the right, thanks to a nerve palsy in my eye - so I am in awe of great parkers.

I live in Peru. I get side eye all the time when I tell people I had my dog spayed. “How can you deprive her of the joy of motherhood?” Um. She’s a dog. She’ll be fine. The dog community is not putting any pressure on her to procreate.

Yeah, you don’t owe that duty! Only the legal system does.

You, individually, absolutely can. However, as the comment from Prose15 indicates, the media need to protect themselves by adopting the legal language, to avoid a lawsuit.

It doesn’t. But when we think we’re going to die, we’ll do a lot to survive. I doubt this woman had the foresight to think ‘if I start a signal fire, it might trigger a forest fire’, but honestly if I had given birth in the middle of nowhere and had been alone with my newborn and no medical care for 3 days, and…

Nah, they said it was a signal fire. She was out there for 3 days, according to the video. I can’t imagine getting in a car and driving anywhere by myself when in labour (I’ve had 2 kids), but I’m not her. Maybe her circumstances meant she couldn’t just stay home and phone someone for help. But if I found myself in…

That’s it exactly. I don’t really know how the American system works - or, I guess, the individual states - but basically I think it’s the same.

He also fed parts of his victim to the dog.

These people telling you the Canadian system is more rehabilitative, or that Montreal has shorter sentencing practices, or that the maximum sentence for murder in Canada is 25 years, are misinformed. I’m a Canadian lawyer. Our sentence for both 1st and 2nd degree murder is life. It does not vary by province, much less…

That’s not true. At all. Both first and second degree murder in Canada carry an automatic life sentence. Parole eligibility just means a parole board will hear your application - after 10 years for 2nd degree, 25 for 1st - but does not in any way guarantee release. Like Clifford Olsen and Paul Bernardo, this guy is…

I know a number of women who’ve married in their 30s and older who have changed their names. Sometimes it’s a second marriage and they are changing their name from the ex husband’s to the current one. I find this so odd. Then again, I’m traveling in a very conservative crowd at present. When I explained to someone…

I had never thought of it in exactly those terms, but man. You’re spot on.

I’m 39 and have been trying to figure it out for 30 years. I’m fine with taking the rest of my life to do so.

Exactly. I lived in Vancouver, Canada, for 13 years without ever really fearing for my safety. During a 15 year period that overlapped my time there, over 50 sex workers and drug addicted or homeless women disappeared. It took police far too long to consider that we might have a serial killer targeting these women,…

Dear Chillicothe law enforcement agencies: please do not make the same mistake my city did. Just because missing women were drug addicted, or sex workers, or otherwise marginalized, does not mean that they just “go missing” for non-suspect reasons. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/r…

Bahahahaha! Yes.