That's gonna drive them crazy when they have to tell every single person they ever interact with in an official capacity, "No, it's Catherine with a Q, and a Y, and two N's, You know what, let me just spell it. Q-A-T-H-R-Y-N-N-E-G-H."

Craigslist's "Best of" sections are usually pretty good for catching that stuff.

Or because they like to think of themselves as the kind of person who fixes things.

The issue here is that studies have shown that crime and poverty are connected. The law is already disproportionately harsh on poor people. It does not need to get worse. And $20 a day is hardly a token amount. For someone who has a full-time job making minimum wage (which is hard to find, especially if you just got…

Sorry, apparently my first search result for highest paid female models was last year's list. As for the analysis of a smart person, of course the more successful female models are more recognizable and better known. But why?

That doesn't tell the whole story either. The No. 2 woman, Kate Moss, is being paid 9 million. That's 6 times as much as the No. 1. man. It's much greater than the time and a half disparity between the two industries. I'd be interested in a smart person taking a stab at some of the reasons those numbers are so…

What's interesting is the difference in drop-off. While the number 10 male model(300k) is making roughly one fifth of the top male(1.5m), the number 10 female (3m)is making less than one tenth of the number one female (42m). Though other commenters are suggesting that the number is skewed because Gisele Bundchen's…

Oh, I didn't understand what you meant about women privileging a man's attraction to them over their own attraction. Now I think I get it. A 60-year-old rich man can convince himself that that 30 year old woman just likes him for him, but a 60-year-old rich woman doesn't fall so easily into that self-deception. It…

It's a part of a system that encourages people to be criminals rather than reform. If we're going to make people pay for the prisons (that we put them in), why not make them pay for police officers too? The taxpayer's interest is in making society safer. Having a system that punishes poor people for being poor doesn't…

It's hard to say. Some people get a lot of encouragement and strength from the idea that "God doesn't give them more than they can handle" for others, it's salt in the wound. I read this as a reminder that we should never tell people how to deal with their suffering. Be empathetic listeners and good friends, don't…

Because there is a relationship between poverty and crime. Crime is more common among people with fewer options. To charge people for their crime after they've paid their debt to society simply puts them deeper into the cycle of crime and violence. It does not make the streets safer.

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.