Well, I am a lawyer and this line of argument tends to irritate the hell out of me, so why don’t I try to set a few things straight?

What I really need is a one or two-time box to send as a gift to families that just had a kid. Preferably food for parents, but maybe also little baby things. Anyone have any suggestions of something of the sort?

“What color hair does Elizabeth Bennet have? Go.”

I’ve gotten a lot of value from separating out “explanation” and “excuse” in my head. Excuse to me says that you can’t hold someone responsible for their actions because of X, whereas I think of explanation as X contributed to someone’s actions. It shows me where they are coming from and challenges me to empathize…

The decision said that the (male) purchaser could rescind the contract (that means cancel the sale) based upon the (female) seller's actions of (1) popularizing her home as a haunted house and (2) conveniently forgetting to mention that when selling it to him. She created the impact on her own property value and is…

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's stupid.

Here's some New York caselaw. It's one of my favorite opinions, actually.

I wholeheartedly agree with this advice, as someone who recently received that line over and over. It just doesn't work; you're so overwhelmed that you can't make any decisions and friends can feel a little put out that you're not asking them for help when you so obviously need it.

Chinese holiday of Chung Ch'ui?

Woo! Creationists and I have something in common - I believe the Earth is thousands of years old, too. Approximately 4,540,000 thousands of years.

So now I'm seriously considering buying the T-Rex and Taz for family. Thanks, Bricken.

(Keep in mind there are generally 40+ of us.) We usually have street hockey in the morning, the usual Thanksgiving stuff in the afternoon, drinking and gaming in the evening, a trip to the spa the next day (albeit usually only the women), and later that evening All Holidays' Day bowling (someone misspoke; we made it…

I know a number of these companies. Unfortunately, it's entirely possible that many of them will wholeheartedly support this guy.

Under a minute for Caudata. Googled "photosynthetic animal." Skimmed results saw something mentioning a salamander. Googled lungless salamander, hit Wikipedia page, and got the Order there.

Borrowed from Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (eventual namesake of the annual fiction one-liner contest), alas.

I don't think so. The rhythm/flow is better as is.

Not sure I'm a fan of the red banner, but I love most of the cover images (except Dawn, because that's pretty clearly a sunset).

One thing I never understood about Cinderella was what the Prince was thinking with that whole "we'll find the woman whose foot fits this shoe" plan - aside from the fact that lots of women share the same shoe size - is that if the shoe had ever really fit in the first place, it wouldn't have fallen off.

Can we switch these around a bit? I liked Batman Forever (for what it was) vaguely enjoyed the third Pirates movie, didn't know there was a third Transformers movie, disliked Back to the Future Pt 3 and loathed the third Harry Potter film.

Of course the President is bad for women; he favors policies that allow for female self-determination, when we know darn well that they'd be much better off if they were pampered and freed from the responsibility of making all those stressful decisions for themselves. Obvs.