Only a weekend! In some parts of India (like where I'm from) traditional weddings are around week long.

Zut alors!

Yup. Maybe the money that went to developing this program would've been better spent on hiring another teacher or two, thereby reducing classes sizes a little. (I know it's more complicated than that, but you get my point.)

"the teacher gave each girl a dab of perfume on her wrist for doing a task correctly."

As ever, the biggest problem here is generalizing. Even if a study did show that SOME boys learn better in x environments and SOME girls learn better in y environments, there are always exceptions to that, but treating everyone's education the same way only allows those exceptions to fall through the cracks.

There are…

Be careful- a lot of Quiverful people started moving toward adoption a few years ago when it became clear to many of the women that having a dozen babies wasn't all it's cracked up to be. Even leaders of the movement were adopting from poor countries, and the results were sometimes disastrous for the adoptees, some…

I'm confused about the whole "up to God" thing, then. If you are taking medical measures to optimize or increase your fertility, how is that at all different from taking birth control, in terms of meddling with "God's plan?" You're taking measures into your own hands for both. It's the exact opposite of birth control,…

Most civilian workplaces don't have to conform their standards to the outcome of constant studies and surveys and audits. That bureaucracy can lead to actual best practices!

Jezebel Road Trip time!

If you too would like to try on one of Dolly's wigs then head on over to her museum, Chasing Rainbows (because she chased her rainbows) at Dollywood, where you can sit in front of a computer and see how you would look in her various wig stylings. Pro tip: be patient, kids love to sit there like they own the…

Reading the first part of news is upsetting, but the second part made me proud that the mother, Nelba Mauez Greene, recognized that people need a space to express themselves and their messages of condolence. Shows that she has a lot of empathy and wisdom.

I completely agree. While far from perfect (your spot on examples,) the fact that HBO took on this crazy ambitious, expensive, gamble and have largely pulled it off is laudable. Plus, I've noticed a lot of the complaints come from people who only read the books because of the show. Being a long time reader, the…

I think also because the wildling lady who hangs with Bran and Rickon and Hodor was named Osha.

I wasn't that taken aback that no one reacted. The basic position of Tywin and Cersei is that Tyrion is a kinslayer and a kingslayer, the two worst things a person in that society can be. If they ignore him and swiftly execute him, they can dismiss everything he said as being vindictive lies.

Wait, no one is talking about how an inner member of the LANNISTER family just publicly confirmed that Joffrey was NOT a Barantheon? In addition to implying that possibly their new king himself might be non-legitimate? Cersei is taking this well, I'd expect her to be shrieking at how much of a liar Tyrion is...but I…

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Silly kel, didn't you know that regulation is the enemy of capitalism because reasons?

Honestly, if it's Cylons like in BSG... Well...

"She opened her top and showed them her boobs, which Jennifer says were completely covered in 'the most beautiful angels and beautiful butterflies and baskets of flowers in pastel-colored tattoos.'"