This could be almost hilarious if it wasn't so chilling and horrifying. Not to minimize the existence and importance of male allies, but there's just no way that a room made up of 99% old white dudes will ever come to reasonable, accurate conclusions about sexualized assault.

SPOILER: Tom Nook issues mortgages to people whose only income comes from foraging for apples and dinosaur bones. Nook's "innovative" collateralized debt obligations crash the economy, the town is overrun by ghosts, and cockroaches overrun the empty homes.

I can't wait.

Look at Tom Nook, just ROCKING that sweater-vest like a boss. You know he is getting all the raccoon-ass, and spending your loan interest on blow.

So true! Just seconds before he sprayed her, she was a werewolf holding a bomb that was holding a bigger bomb that was holding a knife.

Sadly, nope. Just have a lot of friends from there, as well as Americans who've lived there and returned. (Hence it being my impression, rather than fact.) Could also be time dependent - most folks I know from Turkey moved over to the States in the late 80s-mid90s, and my American friends who lived there did so in the…

Oh it certainly sucks. I've been exposed to normal tear gas a number of times(along with every person in the Army, it's part of the training to build trust in your gas mask) but never heard of it being in liquid form before. Basically, it irritates the skin and makes it hurt to breathe(though it's not agonizing, more…

Parents angrily swearing at their kids like that? NEVER okay. It doesn't necessarily mean they are a bad parent overall, but it means they are having a not-so-great parenting moment and should apologize to their child.

Heh. Dealing with this now that Le Petit Comte is communicating verbally (he’s coming up on 2 at the end of the summer). Up until recently, despite his language explosion and propensity to repeat, he had never uttered a swear. The other day, Monsieur said “Damn!” which was parroted by our kid, who thought it was…

Hey, Escambia Academy High School:

It's not all that dissimilar to the US then. Founded on secular principles but controlled by the religious right.

It's pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum, basically super concentrated capsaicin that burns your eyes way more than commercial grade pepper spray that you can get for self defense.

Yeah but Atatürk is the founder of modern Turkey. He built the entire country on the premise of a secular European nation-state, and that's kind of been a defining point of Turkish pride. He placed a huge emphasis on secular - to see that being forgotten is weird.

Actually, there are serious concerns about the legitimacy of the 2007 elections. A close race became, thanks to a series of problems, a sudden massive win for the AKP.

Considering that this is a country that still denies that there was ever such a thing as the Armenian genocide, I'm a little surprised that you're surprised.

Ataturk would be seriously pissed about all this nonsense.

I know people will likely disagree with me here, but.. I'm assuming you'll be flying into Ataturk and visiting older historical sites (Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque)? If so, I don't think there's any issue with this since the protesters (and asshole cops) are in Beyoglu on the other side of the Bosphorus.

So, I've been busy and a bit behind on world news. The HELL of my commute (thanks so much, golf fans) left me time to catch up this morning and uh... I have a really simple question: