I joined Kinja just to say that I'm really irked that people have the nerve to get all upset about this boy's photo being used. This photo made my eyes well up, and gave me a physical, disgusted reaction similar to the one I had when I was rocking myself back and forth in the foetal position the first time I watched…

As a child who was beaten, I wish there had been photos taken of me as proof. I have had many people in my life (close family and friends) who disbelieved what had happened to me because my dad seemed like such a "good guy". I think it needs to been shown what people do to their kids. His face isn't shown, he is…

I don't understand people complaining about this. Images of starving children with their faces showing are used all the time to compel people to donate to programs. They choose to use them because actually seeing a starving child, who's skeletal structure is visible, is much more moving than reading about one.

He can't be identified from the picture, and I think publishing it really drives home how bad the abuse was. The stepmother says the story isn't true, but if a child in your care looks like that there's no way you aren't being abusive.

I disagree completely. There is nothing identifiable about the child in this picture and I wouldn't put it here if there was, trust me. But showing this photo adds a very powerful visual element to this story that hammers home the severity of the situation that words just would not be able to do. I say that as someone…

As much as it is horrifying to see a picture of the child (whose identity is not revealed); it brings home that this is what child abuse looks like. It makes it real, and shows the child so suffering. In a culture in which we generally only see mugshots of the abusers, it might be helpful to demonstrate the real…

I keep going back to what it must be like for that teenager to have to try to find the strength to speak up and fight back in that situation. He was literally fist fighting his stepfather when cops showed up.

I totally get the overwhelmed, frustrated, my-career-is-going-nowhere feeling. Welcome to the late-twenties, Lindsay. Making the phonecalls, doing the legwork, and FORCING OTHER PEOPLE TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR CAREER through sheer force of will?

This is how the normals roll. Welcome.

LOL at Lindsay thinking she even had a shot at anything in the Avengers sequel. I'm not even sorry for saying it but she is DELUSIONAL. And as for the whining that her agents aren't willing to fight for her, well, why should they? At this point most productions would probably regard her as a liability on set, and…

Nothing says "I'm taking my sobriety seriously" like taking part in a reality show.

Another day, another child fed to a boyfriend. Or another boyfriend who was mother's hit man.

In general, weaponized liberal outrage is a devastating resource, and we must only use it for good.

Wow, it must suck to have 200 professors publish a letter decrying your mother while you are still a student at the university. This takes humiliation via parent to a whole new level. I bet her son cannot wait to graduate.

Maybe I'm underestimating the ubiquity of recognizing her name, but if Steenkamp had been the Olympic athlete and had killed her not-as-famous male partner, I'd be referring to the victim as "Steenkamp's deceased boyfriend." This isn't gendered; it's about who is more known.

I had no idea of her name.

Hrmm... OK. Fine. But it rubs me the wrong way, like we need to be told to chill out. Like I expect a sign saying "I know when you tell me to smile you just want me to be reminded that happiness trumps unhappiness" followed by "When I tell you to smile, it's because you're beautiful when you do."

Creationists aren't even on the radar screen for them, they wouldn't even consider us plausible at all.

Tyson laid it out in the show's first episode:

HAHA, exactly. In my first draft I had written something along the lines of, "Um, sorry commenter, but what had you accomplished by the middle of your freshman year? Perfected the art of 40 drinking? Learned how to do laundry without your mom's help? Explained to several women that misandry is real?" but it didn't fit…

The problem with hydrogen is that it's so small, its always going to be leaking. If you intend to stay up for more than a couple days, you're simply going to have to produce more hydrogen from electrolysis. It seems like you should be able to make your bladders out of some brominated polyester, reinforced with an…