That particular chunk is still reservation land but it belongs to the Hopi. There’s actually a whole long history about Hopi and Navajo land and a lot of controversy about some of the boundaries.

Like wwaxwork said, always report a missing person as missing ASAP, particularly if you suspect they were taken against their will or are otherwise in danger (lost in a remote area, needing medication that they don’t have, suicidal are all common reasons). Police have some leeway on when they actually start looking.…

Just chiming in as someone else who has had EMDR. Mine was for a serious work-related accident (like, one that should have left me quadriplegic or dead) rather than assault or anything, but it was impacting my life and career. It was amazing...within just a couple of sessions I was able to work normally again (before…

I definitely agree that people go too far. I might be dating myself here, but I knew someone who ran into Val Kilmer in the parking garage of his lawyer’s office as he was going through a divorce. She asked him for his autograph and he wasn’t terribly rude but was a bit brusque and brushed her off without giving her…

Pretty much, haha. I can get hyperfocused on topics that interest me (which doesn’t include celebrities, FWIW, but she didn’t realize that) and dig up all kinds of weird and obscure information, and she thought I did that to Mara Wilson and found it a little creepy but not so bad that she felt obligated to say…

A friend of mine spent like two months thinking I was some weird stalker because of Mara Wilson. We went to a Welcome to Night Vale live show with her and I made some comment about how she looked as a child, and my friend didn’t realize she was a child actress so she thought I was being weird and obsessive. Couple of…

That last line about Wikipedia literally made me laugh out loud. I love her.

I watched this movie when it first came out and whenever I’m nervous the first lines of “Journey to the Past” (“Heart don’t fail me now/courage don’t desert me/don’t turn back now that we’re here...”) still come to me. I know a lot about the actual historical events and yet I can’t help but love this movie because…

The Los Angeles Zoo is heavily involved in California condor reintroduction (and in fact captive breeding programs literally saved California condors from extinction as at one point there were no wild ones left, now IIRC there are about 150 in the wild). The Albuquerque Biopark (formerly Rio Grande Zoo) used play a…

9 out of 10 abortions occur in the first trimester. The reasons for second trimester abortions vary, but in most cases it is a lack of access and/or education. Women who have not had adequate sex ed are more likely to not realize that they’re pregnant until that late. Poorer women are far more likely to have second…

I used to work professionally in the horse industry, and honestly my first thought was a brain injury. I’ve known/known of three young people who fell off a horse, hit their head but didn’t think they needed to go to the hospital, and went to sleep and never woke up.

Same here. I’m a woman, but I’ve only menstruated once in 7 years now and I knew about when it would start (love my Mirena). I carry panty liners for the very occasional spotting I get, but I also almost always have tampons on hand because I get asked for them reasonably often and I like to help people out. No one…

Amen to this. I’ve moved around a lot, and even though I don’t generally support (in a moral sense, I firmly believe abortion should just be a medical decision without any special laws) aborting a fetus for non-fatal disability like Down’s syndrome...I’ve lived in some areas where, if I were to get pregnant and find…

Eh, I’ve had an abortion. There was a lot of cramping for a few days but it really wasn’t bad. Far better than the alternative.

For further reassurance, I have a friend who has trick horses for movies and yeah, the amount of care and training and safety preparation is amazing. Her stunts (even one where horses are loose and it’s *just* the horse at risk) are planned out just as carefully as human stunts. Accidents do sometimes happen in the…

Camels do too. :)

Oh wow, that is some bad reporting. Doesn’t surprise me really (I have some experience on the investigative end and IME the news media tend to be pretty lax except about some really high-profile cases where they pore over every detail with a flea comb), but damn.

This is not true. Her body was found outdoors in an empty lot/field. It was behind a house owned by a woman (the homeowner and her gardener where the ones who found Adriana’s body and reported it to the police).

Yeah, I’m a bit surprised everyone is jumping to the idea that the father was the primary target. It seems to me that it’s just as likely (if not more, since he apparently doesn’t have any criminal ties) that the daughter is the target. It wouldn’t be the first time a stalker or abuser harmed the family of their…

Yeah, I grew up in southern NM and like everyone went to Mexico for surgeries and treatments, especially if they were uninsured/underinsured (though even sometimes with insurance, treatment in Mexico was cheaper than the deductible/copay). I was good friends with our town’s doctor (I trained their horses) and he’d…