Sometimes this happens, but more often it does not. A person can be involuntarily committed by a friend, a school official, a parent, or almost anyone who knows how the system works and can tell a good story. Because the hospital can't really tell who's telling the truth (and one person is arguing that the subject's…

Sometimes that happens, often it doesn't. Frequently all it takes is the word of a friend, classmate, or parent to send someone into involuntary confinement. A hospital, not knowing who to believe, might choose an abusive parent over and unruly child, or someone who understands the language of psychiatry over someone…

I'm not sure that older women have easy access to hot male bodies. Generalization: Since men are often judged by the attractiveness of the woman that they are with, they are much less likely to go for someone older. It is much more common to see older men with younger women than it is to see older women with younger…

Me and this guy from another college used to tell everyone that we were twins (because we both had...beards? I don't know). We competed in sports, and we'd play each other a couple of times a season, so we got kind of good at convincing people that we were twins. Anyways, I got to know a freshman girl pretty well, and…

Yeah, I kind of think "knowing yourself" is a responsibility each individual should take on before diving into the dating pool. I get that we're all growing people, but I've seen too many people hurt because their partner (sometimes me) didn't know what they wanted.

It's possible he has a disorder. There was something like this on This American Life. Also probably in Mike Birbiglia's movie. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

Holy shit I am looking it up right now.

But by that point he has won you over and you love him and when you finally realize, it's a joy and you drop on your knees to praise God because you will have a few more days with such a ray of sunshine.

I don't know about name or phone number, but I'm definitely open to temporary tattoos on my child. Nothing like having a tiny badass wandering around the house.

We had a song that had our phone number and address. It was one of those never ending songs, so I loved it. It just went back and forth from phone number to address. As early as I could remember, if you asked I could tell you my address and phone number. I just couldn't stop...

I think we can all agree that Jager is the kind of guy who gives high fives so hard your hand still hurts like five minutes later.

When I look in the mirror. But it passes pretty quickly and I don't do it that often.

Agreed. If he's taking advantage, assuming higher positions, and being disrespectful, and not doing work, fire him. Document the shit out of it so that everything is clear. But all too often assertive people who assume more power than they have just get that power, because people would rather not get in their way.

The History Channel is as much about history as The Learning Channel is about learning.

Our support for this country shows our brazen hypocrisy and undermines most of our political goals for the region. It's ridiculous and would stop if American "morality" were anything other than a cynical power grab.

From the beginning you could see from the beginning that this was a bad idea. It's a polarizing politician who is likely to run for a major office. Literally nobody was going to tell them the truth. Her enemies would say terrible things about her, her friends would say great things about her, and we would know nothing…

The UTA Austin Police Blotter used to be fantastic. I haven't read it in a while, but I remember "Subject was found fighting a losing battle with gravity"

Patriarchy is fucked. Men are often taught that they should be better than their partners at everything (or at least that's what I was taught growing up), that men should be smarter, better earners, more athletic, more powerful, more in control, whatever.

I don't think that a united front is a real possibility in any way, and I don't think it would be effective either. Men are doing it for themselves, so what a woman does in response doesn't really matter. I think your national campaign strategy is better. We need to teach our children (and adults) that this sort of…

Great article! Thank you for helping us realize the complexity of the issues at hand, and how so many people were hurt (to varying degrees) by the carelessness and ruthlessness of others.