Eh, I worked in the industry for 10 years and I agree, but I'd still say it's better than milking goats or stamping license plates.

There are programs where inmates have much more hands-on experience with the animals than a typical milking operation allows; for example, there is a program where prisoners train BLM mustangs to be adopted out, and another where prisoners raise puppies that are intended to be guide dogs. I think that kind of program…

When I meow at my two cats, they come running and then meow back at me. They are pretty bad at catting though, having been raised by dogs.

I don't really disagree with you, but my question is, what is the individual defense attorney supposed to do when they're tasked with defending an accused rapist and that's the best avenue of defense? My understanding is that they can be professionally sanctioned and even disbarred should they refuse to mount an…

I think it's possible to decry the tactic without blaming the individual defense attorneys for using it. Defense attorneys are obligated to give their clients the best defense possible; since our system and culture allow (and in fact, encourage) calling the victim's testimony into question, I think it's unfair to…

Yeah I hate to be a grouch but I was like "they do that after every kind of surgery unless they're too drugged to react much." I mean it's sweet and all, but I don't think it has that much to do with him being able to see his owners again.

What kind of school even cares on the last day, I wonder? I'm pretty sure I could have gone to school in a bikini on the last day back when I was in high school and no one would have given a damn because everyone is already mentally checked out.

That rescue agency is only criticizing people who might be using it to find a new dog that looks very similar to their old one, which I agree with. I've seen a few adoptions go bad because someone wanted a dog who looks just like their deceased pet, then get upset when it doesn't act like dear departed Fluffy.

I like that. Where I grew up, there was a local business that advertised all the time and sang their phone number in this little jingle as part of every commercial, and I used to sing it to assholes who wouldn't leave me be. Only one guy recognized it.

Pretty much everything I need sunscreen for involves either eating or exercising.

A lot of predators are nocturnal or are most active around dusk/dawn too, so a fear of the dark makes extra sense there.

So not that you need it, but since ellenjane is being so nasty to you, I just want to say that I have noticed your comments on like 3 or 4 articles I've read today and really enjoyed all of them (seriously, usually I don't notice names unless a comment really strikes me, for good or for bad). This lady is happy you're…

The Navajo Nation *hates* it when people use Navajo that way, too. They go after companies legally for it all the time, and I don't think it probably really matters to them what the race of the model is.

How steep is that learning curve? I've heard those very highly recommended but I have a (probably) irrational fear of them because my mom has a horror story of using one to shave her legs when she was like 13 and her mom wouldn't let her shave, and slicing herself open so badly with it that she needed a bunch of…

I'm notoriously bad at reading tone. Damn. ;)

Naw, I'm not saying anyone's an awful person for liking it. :) I just think that it's hardly universally relatable (literally no one I can recall talking about books with as a young woman really liked Salinger, although I'm sure some young women out there do, not just you!), and I think a lot of pretentious douchebags…

I'm just confused because, having been a young woman who dated other young women, Salinger is really not an author I would say that "most young women" like. I would classify him more as an author that pretentious douchebags like to namedrop because they think it makes them look smarter than they are.

That certainly does not help.

I like this theory, but unfortunately it is untrue. The last time I was in one was 2008, and it was a recently-remodeled one (I saw the ongoing remodeling myself for weeks as I drove past). It was slightly less horrifying but still had the same vague miasma hovering around it.

Alas, I did once. I still have flashbacks.