But it’s not a cultural fair organized specifically around talking about what it was like to be raised female from infancy to age 8. It’s a cultural fair organized around and limited exclusively by femaleness. It is open to women of all ages, all races, all professional backgrounds, all religions, all nationalities,…

That’s sort of a legal oddity, though, isn’t it? I can write an advanced directive saying when and if I want to have surgery, right? And I can vest my spouse with the authority to decide whether I should have surgery.

oh god you devil

A home run by the opposing team? I can see a jerk doing that.

Amy’s one step ahead of you already.

The real problem is that, in to many places, people think it’s something you should be doing on the toilet (at work, at restaurants, etc.) and give no alternatives to pumping or feeding in a restroom. But if it makes a mom happy to double-task in this way, why are people jumping on her?

This is basically the theory behind liberal arts schools. If you want a good undergraduate education, you don’t want a professor who is too busy running a lab and managing a host of grad students to be available to undergrads. At an elite liberal arts college, there will still be a lot of pressure to publish, but…

This was probably less likely to cause offense than the Land O’ Lakes maiden.

Also, there are lots of reasons why you’d want to be able to DM a company. I see this kind of interchange all the time.

I am a self-respecting human, which means I only eat the compressed pig asshole loaf that looks appetizing.

There’s clearly a strategic posture in between “letting the shipments go through” and “firing on Iranian ships.” It seems like that the middle ground probably involves letting a few Saudi ships try to stop the Iranian ships and having a carrier as the silent partner looming behind them. The US might never declare that…

I love the luminescent algae (?) you can see around 0:42 on the sides of the whale’s jaw (?).

Because why would Guam want to be? You’re just assuming Guamanians want to be an independent country. In a 1976 referendum, independence only garnered 5% of the vote. http://www.guampedia.com/guams-politica…

One in every three women in America have had (or will have) an abortion. It’s pretty normal.

Putting your car keys in your microwave will make absent-minded coffee reheating a very expensive prospect.

Assume from context: “wear a condom”

Some people with schizophrenia do develop an understanding that their symptoms are products of a mental illness. That doesn’t make the delusions less real, but that insight makes it easier to take medications regularly and maintain good self-care. Of course, lots of people with schizophrenia don’t develop that kind of…

But that's not news; Iran has always had the ability to make life in the Persian Gulf miserable if it wanted to. It could also shoot down planes in the Persian Gulf area with its own air force or advance ships into the Gulf to harass shipping. Nor is there really a way for Iran to maintain any kind of air defense that…

Yeah, I didn't understand this at all. I don't really understand why the statement that the SAMs are defensive and "will not put at risk the security of any state in the region, including Israel" was partially true. If the missiles have a 75 mile range, that sounds like a defensive weapon. Israel is not within 75…

It's not some stranger's hair. Having the hair of some line cook in your food is vastly different from having your wife's hair around. I prefer my food un-haired, but I also recognize that once you sign up to go down on someone for the rest of your lives, it's a little bit ridiculous to worry about their stray hair in…