Report from the local press, without Gawker's editorial spin: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/06/19/370…

Here's the Times article that cites the "one out of 18 men" statistic:

<—- Canadian here

One side effect of mat leave here is that there are a lot of 1 year temp-but-full-time postings. I worked a number of these when I was younger and they helped me get a ton (tonne?) of work experience. In some cases, the places I'd worked at would offer me another position because they'd enjoyed…

50 weeks in Canada...

Why do I, an American citizen who does not want to

I am in HR and am currently pregnant, about to go on maternity leave next week, as coincidence would have it. As part of my job I meet with our global HR team regularly. Every time one of the global HR staff ask me how long I will be out on maternity leave (which is 6 months - my work is pretty awesome for letting me…

We're one of three countries that doesn't mandate paid maternity leave in the entire world.

"We would be grateful if the customer would give us the dress, so we can investigate how the additional label became attached and whether there are issues which need to be looked into."

David Bowie has covered this, I believe:

...Seriously guys?

Is this even up for debate? The 70s were the ugliest by far. In all of human history.

The No True Scotsman fallacy! Try again.

Would you say he's a... national treasure?

Jesus, that escalated rather quickly.

As a Spanish speaker who looks gringa - I found that my favorite thing was to not let on I spoke Spanish for a week or so. If no creepy things were said I would let them know pretty quickly. If creepy things were being said I wouldn't let on for a while - then thank them in perfect Spanish after they'd be describing…

No, using this tool is abdicating authority because it allows to the parent to say, essentially, "it's not me, it's the app that locked you out". Yes, the parent sets the times, but 'set it and forget it' is not nearly the same. When the phone locks down, the kid isn't going to think "my parent locked down my phone",…

You have the longest username I've ever seen.

I've tried to get help for mentally ill friends/ family before, and it is practically impossible to get help for an adult who hasn't done anything illegal yet if they refuse to cooperate.