No, it’s not. I’m just saying that the argument about humane treatment isn’t adequate in itself without some such distinction.

No one’s reading between the lines here? I think the hidden threat is that no one leaves a marriage to Taylor Swift alive.

I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, the idea that humans are going to live on just vegetable matter, well, we don’t come off an assembly line. There are a lot of people that straight up can’t, for whatever reason. I’m prediabetic and a major symptom for me, besides the more typical ones, is I get horrific,…

I think you’re making a really good point about how anthropomorphic our benchmarks are. We can make a good test of how humanlike a crow behaves, but we’re never going to understand in any deep way what the cognitive experience of being a crow is like. People talk about whether we’ll understand thinking aliens when we…

Let’s do a bit of a thought experiment. A woman has a daughter with an inevitably fatal heart defect, and only a sibling, which she doesn’t have, can provide a heart transplant. So she has another child, who she raises with kindness to the point that surgery can be performed, at which point she kills them and takes…

I feel you. I had a buddy who used to work up in Yellowknife. A lot of the Native groups around there get really sick on low meat diets, because their ancestors have eaten mostly meat for centuries. Humans aren’t herbivores by design, and not everybody can fake it enough to make it stick.

This is a lot easier to fix than Zimbabwe’s governmental system, which the West has at least attempted to act on. I don’t think this is a huge discrepancy. Your average Joe on the street doesn’t necessarily know the details, but he knows Mugabe’s a tyrant and people are suffering.

But not shooting at the lions is a…

Thank you for writing this. This is my life right now.

I’ve got an MA, I’ve traveled all over the world, a job I love, live in a great city, close to my family, great close friendships. Aside from the lack of a significant other and some relatively minor physical health issues, I have pretty much everything I could…

Eh, I feel like the “hot hacker chick” is at least kind of a media staple.

In before the Kaylor truthers find this comment

Minneapolis here. It doesn’t sound “non-Midwestern” to me. Believe it or not, there are a lot of educated, urban people out here in the Midwest. Note that Chicago is the third biggest metro outside LA and NY. We are not all the couple from that American Gothic painting.

Frankly I hope the 80s hair comes back.

Yeah, definitely out of his league. She was my first TV crush. How is she still this hot 20 years later??

The kitties lined up for petting! You have to admit that’s adorable.

Cat lady here. I think it’s the latter. It’s a temptation even for me; fortunately, I’m not a moron. This poor fellow doesn’t seem to have had that going for him.

The “paranormal teen romance” genre’s blowing up. Maybe this is the time.

Sweetening tea is an atrocity. I hope you hang.

There’s absolutely an aftertaste, which when in my pre-prediabetic days I thought was gross. But once you’re used to it, it becomes disturbing and jarring to not have it.

Julianne, you’re doing God’s work here. Sometimes I feel like the last holdout with aspartame.

Agreed. Plenty of places in the developed world are corrupt as fuck. Look at Chicago, or Italy. The corruption doesn’t help, but there are a lot of other drivers for poverty in Africa, many of them external and/or historical.