This makes no sense. If you're standing any kind of distance away from a building, even perfect reflection of the urine without any absorption wouldn't do much of anything. unless you were standing right up against the wall or urinating horizontally. It sounds like a smart person found a way to get dumb people to buy…

I think it's important to say yes whenever possible, but when you say no, explain once firmly. Have a clear explanation for what you're doing, but don't get into a debate.

For many prisoners, gender reassignment surgery is life-saving. Some resort to self-castration in their cells. Others attempt suicide.

Parenting a toddler is really hard. Since you only mention a little brother, I'm guessing he's your oldest?

actually, it's about ethics in leverage

Regardless of whether she talked to her doctor or what her doctor said, it is incorrect to tell people that if she is using an earlier frozen embryo or someone else's egg, that removes any and all medical risk.

"Go Pats!"

Most of the complications related to maternal age appear to have little to do with the age of the embryo (and the higher risk of genetic or chromosomal problems). Most of them have to do with the health of the mother, in relation to her age: http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/5/1…

That depended on the state. Eisenstadt made anti-contraception laws unconstitutional, but not every state at that time had an anticontraception law. To draw a comparison, gay marriage is legal in lots of states, but laws prohibiting gay marriage have not been finally declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.

I remember reading about this several years ago. One of the Asian airlines requires flight attendants to be a certain height, and a would-be flight attendant was too short. So she went through these surgeries. Apparently, in addition to the whole stuck-in-a-bed-in-crippling pain-for-months problem of the procedure…

JONAH got swallowed, so maybe not the best metaphor?

Nicholas Sparks was the male comp for Jennifer Weiner I was thinking of. He seems much less likely to get shelved in a "romance/women's interest" area than Weiner, even though they're both very formulaic fiction writers.

I have heard that Kate Upton opinion multiple times and want to punch everything.

There's nothing wrong with starting out ignorant. One would hope that after working on an article for months on end, Hannan wouldn't have still been hopelessly ignorant about trans issues.

For one, because state marijuana laws and federal marijuana laws are not actually in conflict. The state of Washington doesn't say that federal officials cannot prosecute marijuana offenses. It says that state officials and local officials won't prosecute marijuana offenses. The mere fact that marijuana possession is…

Sorry to derail, but Kat, were you aware Gawker Media is now paying Caleb Hannan, author of that awful Dr. V story, to write for Deadspin?

Hi, I'm Caleb Hannan. You may know me from such pieces as "I outed a trans woman who later killed herself and never apologized for it."

I'm glad you pointed out the dog-leg-humping thing. That was my immediate response and comparison. While dolphins are definitely smarter than dogs, this guy has romanticized and anthropomorphized the dolphin-equivalent of leg humping to some desire of the dolphin to be his girlfriend. The coverage of this has…

Truth bombs: everything that's not Julie Andrews about Mary Poppins is goddamn unwatchable. Dick Van Dyck. Embarrassing 60's special effects. Mary Poppins is crap.

Too bad. This one should've been great fun.