The amount this guy clearly loves his dog is causing my ovaries to clench. I'll kiss you even if your doggy won't! :D

It still chaps my ass that Michael Vick is out there making trailerfuls of money for the NFL. I suppose we should be grateful this piece of human excrement didn't kill Sade. (sarcasm)

I know you're joking, but the reason most animal rights advocates have to do so much work is because of all the people who don't really give a shit, which is most people, including most commenters on Jez and writers for it. That dog could have easily been sold to a dogfighting ring as a bait dog and I bet not two…

this was an unexpected bit of illumination about water patterns in Brazil.

He's a bra is half full kind of a guy.

If your offspring starts throwing a tantrum in the restaurant I'm eating in, yeah, I'm going to grimace. I might even scowl! But my face doesn't throw off death rays. I have to deal with your kid - you can deal with my facial expression.

You are a god amongst trolls.

I try to explain to people younger than me, what Tiffani-Amber Thiessen meant to pre-teen girls in the early 90's. Like, we all wanted to be just like her, even though we knew we didn't have a shot in hell. I bought fucking floral shortalls and wore them with a raspberry colored t-shirt, for fuck's sake.

why do people seem to think that learning self-defense and teaching men not to rape are mutually exclusive? no one is blaming the victim if she gets rape, anything she can do to protect herself is good. also no one is blaming rape victims for not knowing self defense. we can try to teach people not to murder or…

Stranger rape may not be how rape normally looks, but it is the lived experience of Ms. Gatto and her mother. I'm not sure how I feel about using this story (which is a brave thing to talk about in public) as a launching point for "But that's not what rape really looks like and she's hurting the cause and empowering…

For a lot of people the school system is the only place where they can learn these sort of "soft skills."

I hear what your saying, but left to their own devices teens often make terrible choices and perhaps teaching them what is appropriate in certain places is not appropriate in others is something schools should be doing. That being said, lining girls up in front of class in order to humiliate them is pretty fucked up.

While it sounds like this was enforced in a totally inappropriate manner, the idea that boys and/or girls should be allowed to wear whatever to school is silly and doesn't teach them needed life skills, like say, dressing appropriately for different environments. Honestly, our school spends more time trying to get…

Compare the $10 drink scenario to the gender-reversed scenario. Guys cruelly reject girls after having sex with them.*

Part of being a woman is the slow realization that some men, for no discernible reason, are always going to hate you. And you have no way of knowing who they are until they open their mouths, or open fire.

We have two dogs that are both about medium size. Including this handsome devil. They are not the least bit aggressive but we still put them in a closed room when we have parties with kids. It put everyone at ease and avoids even he potential for a bad scene.

Hit a nerve. Well done. Pits may not be the problem, but their asshole owners are, and if I don't know you I'm not going to trust you with a dog whose jaws exert enough pressure to break human bones.

Especially Pitbull.

Dunno, I think it's healthy to be flexible and open to trying new things. Maybe you don't like the idea of it but once you try it, it's actually kind of fun. You're right that it shouldn't be a negotiation point for quid-pro-quo such as "I'll try that if you stop fucking around."

Did anyone else grow up in the Sacramento area in the late 80s/early 90s? She was our local news anchor! yay Connie.