I like our local zoo because most of the wildlife exhibited is local or from a comparable climate (so no zebras are trying to cope with below freezing temperatures), and most of the animals are either orphaned or injured animals who otherwise would not survive in the wild. It actually plays an important role as a…

If you actually believe grown men (and presumably women) are clusters of molecules without agency, then why do you care if people make Bill Cosby feel bad? I think that's a fairly extreme and absurd position to take, but it would make pretty much every aspect of human existence seem weird. Why are you focusing on this…

Too many people have to [put down their pets] watch their family members die because they cannot afford to pay the medical whatever. If you cannot afford to have a [pet] human relative, you shouldn't have one. . . . If you can't afford the medical bills, which could be up to thousands if not tens of thousands, you…

I love this idea, and I love that it works for you.

I got married a little over six months ago

That was my rough assessment of the women's prisons I'm familiar with but there's plenty of literature out there:

My comment wasn't aimed at Vinson at all. I was replying to a comment about "Cosmo['s] . . . priorities," and it seems to me that the hyperbole about disrupting her wedding came from Cosmo's spin, not Vinson's commentary.

It seems like an incredibly first-world view of the illness that the big consequence is re-starting her wedding plans. There's a lot of people in West Africa who got Ebola who are never making wedding plans from scratch.

To the extent that this has anything to do with gender rather than non-violent offenders, I think the point about the incidence of sexual abuse and sexual assault survivors (which runs probably between 80-90% in the prisons I'm familiar with) in women's prisons is valid. Being in prison requires, per our current…

neither can I, and I have a standing Prime membership

The editing in the E! piece also makes it less clear that the first sentence quoted was meant to have anything to do with the last ones.

It's certainly not clear at all to me that wearing or not wearing dresses in the early 21st century has the same meaning as wearing or not wearing dresses in the early 20th century. I can't speak to what the trans community looked like then, but the Western world as a whole surely had a much neater binary in which men…

Maybe I am an antisocial jerk, but I actually love self-checkout stands. I love automated telephone response systems; maybe I don't need to wait 10 minutes to talk to a person, I just want to know when your store is open or how to get there.

Falling down once, consequence free, does not seem like "a fail of epic proportions."

The governor said that he would consider legal action to enforce the quarantine against her, which means that it would get tested in court, which means we would find out whether the quarantine meets some kind of basic constitutional standard. So, by defying the quarantine, she's actually making sure it gets tested.

Cool, so when school districts in the 80's started telling HIV positive kids that they couldn't come to school at all, those kids should've just stayed home quietly because that's what the people in charge said? Even though that was not the protocol recommended by doctors who knew what they were talking about?

No, birth control is there for people who don't want to have kids right now. It is not there so you can exclude people from happy hour.

"Babies are stupid and they suck" — good, for a minute there, I thought you might not have a good reason for this sweeping opinion.

When he was on the Colbert Report (I cringed a little at that guest selection as well as the fawning way Stephen treated him), Cosby was completely incoherent. Colbert played it as a bit, but Cosby seemed legit confused (in a dementia way) throughout the interview. Guy is 77 years old.

The doctor in NYC did properly self assess. He sought care as soon as he showed symptoms. There is no reason to think that asymptomatic Ebola patients can spread the disease. In every case of documented Ebola spread in the US, the people contracting the illness were medical professionals treating someone with acute…