She clearly needs to spend less time cosplaying as the Doctor and more time learning how to ride a damn bike.

I find it very hard to believe that the mother and son got swept away and drown in Jialing river, unless they didn't know how to swim. That river is usually very calm. It is also very hard to believe that the bodies haven't been recover yet. In other words, it is most likely one of those Chinese article that are…

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Especially since Klug says she didn't talk about her gender identity in class, the question probably was "Dad, Ms. Klug kind of looks like a man. Why is that?" the answer to which is: "Women come in all shapes and sizes. Ms. Klug is a woman."

If you can't answer your child's questions about gender and sexuality (in an age-appropriate manner) by the time they're in fifth grade. . .I don't know what to tell you. YOU are the problem. Not the sub. My second-grade age niece has a teacher who happens to be transgender. It's a complete non-issue for her and…

There is no aspect of the story that is not heartbreaking: this woman epitomizes how difficult it is to claw your way out of crippling poverty and the many "damned if you do, damned if you don't" choices one has to make in doing so. Her children were in real danger. Very real, very serious danger, and that should not…

Star Trek: FTL?

Kid stares in awe at giant Xbox controller. More at 10.

Yah, how unreasonable for a dad to protect his daughter from - by the daughter's account at the time - a rapist. Aren't we in a culture of rape? How is it unreasonable to fear your daughter is the victim of rape when 1) your son tells you there's a strange dude in your daughter's room 2) your daughter denies knowing…

No, I'm a girl who was once a teenager who sneaked in boys to my room and had a dad who owned a gun. NEVER would I have allowed my dad to think I was about to be raped because he would have shot the dude. He would have believed he was protecting me. I don't think this girl is a terrible person or a murderer, but…

I don't think her dad should have killed him, of course, but what the hell is he supposed to think when his daughter tells him she doesn't know why a strange man is in her room? I'm pretty sure my husband would go pretty apeshit, too (though we don't- and won't- own a gun). That's HORRIBLE. I'm more upset with the…

If the father hadn't been quite as trigger-happy, I wonder how far the girl would have taken her denials. Would she have kept going with the "I have no idea who this guy is" while the cops came? While he was charged and tried for trespassing, if not attempted rape? When was she planning on coming clean?

She may not have acted with malice, but she showed an extremely careless attitude about her boyfriend's life when she continued to lie while her dad had a gun in his hands.

I really think the girl does need to have some legal consequence, if there is some statute that allows it. I wouldn't be surprised if no charges were brought up against the father, or if any charges didn't get past the grand jury - he was acting in good faith that this was an intruder based on the information his…

Lesson: When you see that your dad is wielding a gun against your boyfriend, it's time 'fess the fuck up.

I agree. And having had a teenage son in this same situation, I was upset when my son got arrested - now I'm just thankful he wasn't shot!

Jesus that is sad. This is tragic.

I would cook and clean for her :)