As a person whose adult brother died from a non-bike related head injury, and has herself cracked two bike helmets from crazy sudden incidents on busy roads, yes, the "nearly-weightless piece of brittle foam" bike helmet will save a life.

Why on earth would you think that piece of equipment that has been highly…

Anecdotes do not equal data. Just because nobody I knew grew up with died from a head injury while riding a bike doesn't mean that people don't. Where you are riding your bike makes a big difference—not all neighborhoods are made equal, and a helmet can make the difference between a minor accident and a grievous one.

Why are spas all hushed and low lighting and salons all bright colors and unforgiving light? I could go for a place like this, sort of comfy-leather with selective spotlights.

As long as you promise to check your "lady gossip" at the door.

It causes problems because what if a girl, like me, looks Mexican (black hair, brown skin, brown eyes, ~Mexican features~) but has lived here for several generations? I've already had someone tell me it's weird that I call myself Mexican even though I'm an American citizen. Well, maybe if some white Americans didn't…

I know that feel! My mom is from Spain, but her family is Catalan. Never call them Spanish. EVER.

How do you prove that, though? I don't have a piece of paper saying SOY MEXICANA (although I could make a pretty convincing certificate) and the last 2-3 generations of my family are American, although we're all still Mexican. What even.

I know this is probably in gray, but ... People, replying to trolls only promotes them. Do not reply to trolls. It only gives them the attention for which they're so desperate.

That is utterly horrifying and totally unrelated to this story; brutal rapes occur every day in the multiples and each one is horrible and none of them undermine or detract that horror from the others. Our ability to be compassionate for others is not limited to only one subject at a time and playing at ranking the…

also, after reading it again, fuck you for victim blaming. Shitty advocate is shitty.

Meanwhile, in an actual comment on a website, some jagoff completely misses the point.

The fact that horrible things happen around the world doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to improve North American attitudes as well.

If it is the result of a genuine, arms-length investigation, that will be that. Not everyone will be happy, but there are unhappy parties at the conclusion of most litigation. The point is that a crime has been alleged and the early evidence indicates the investigation into that alleged crime, to the extent there was…

I agree with the first paragraph, but the second smacks of gender-essentialist stereotypes. People in general have different libidos, but a woman having a higher libido than her male partner is far more common than most people believe, mostly because society tells one gender that there's something wrong with them if…

Westmark, what the fuck. She doesn't want to have sex more than once a week, can you not read? If he is happy with that then why the fuck would he move on?

UCONN's student population is bigger than that of the town it's in. The University has their own police department, Mansfield relies on a resident State Trooper. So these are reactions from the actual cops.

I was going to point out these facts as well. In terms of this specific case, authorities were responding to a lot more than just her blondeness. However, the point Lindy makes about the media's immediate reaction to this, the commentary that has followed on, and the broader issues Roma face as a marginalised people,…

I'm super grossed by the "blonde angel" commentary. Look at this poor WHITE child, trapped with the dirty BROWN people.

The Hungarian Roma who came as refugees to Ottawa, Canada were beginning to mesh very well before, sadly, our government started denying their asylum requests and started deporting them.

It's a serious offence to call in a hoax bomb threat. Even a stupid hoax sets off a MAJOR chain of events, and it also increases complacency for when there is an actual threat. Look at what happened when the IRA were constantly calling bomb threats into London - people just stopped evacuating/avoiding places.