...if men always took no for an answer the first time they asked, the human race would have gone extinct a long time ago.

They can do what my mother and her 3rd, 4th, and 6th husband did: marry, divorce, marry, divorce, get pregnant, marry, divorce.

It didn’t actually include a credit card number.

Note: nail in the ass, not stake in the heart.

If you consider a ratio of 26,000 Afghan deaths vs 4,000 US military/contractor = successful defense.

My minimum requirement for a president or national office holder is that s/he be smarter than I am, which is why it’s nearly impossible for me to vote Republican. (Cf. Michelle Bachman.)

Yes. It seems likely that, for some of the victims, he was convicted of none of his crimes against them. I’m very glad for the guilty verdicts, but I’m disappointed and sad for the (likely) women who came forward but still weren’t believed.

I don’t think it’s about a naïve expectation that rapists or murderers, once confronted or convicted, will become more responsible people and just own up. I think it’s that their denial is also a denial of their victims’ reality; in that sense, it’s an affront added to the original assault. An insult on top of the…

Except that Baron-Cohen, one of the study authors, clearly states that the science isn’t yet clear:

Quanitifying, per http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-class-i…, because I live for stats:

What record? Actually curious. Have only ever encountered Dowd being dickish; dickish != feminist, though she seems to think so.

What’s bewildering is that I haven’t read a single comment that has tried to justify the actions of the driver. Truly. Lots of comments about how motorcyclists in general or this one in particular behave/behaved foolishly, or unthinkingly, or aggressively, but not one single “Go driver! Yee-haw!”

That’s beyond a leap. He never wrote that. He never implied that. Even if he wrote that the incident was 100% the motorcyclist’s fault (which he did not), that still wouldn’t be equivalent to proclaiming that gave the driver the right to try to kill.

But isn’t that an argument to maintain distance between yourself and the vehicle you’re following, rather than an argument to pass the vehicle you’re following?

But #3 isn’t what he said.

I don’t see anything in jalop1991’s comment that claims that the motorcyclist is to blame. He characterized a comment the motorcyclist was forced to pass as bullshit and a douchebag rationalization — his judgement seems clearly directed at the commentor, not the motorcyclist in the video.

Even if all that is granted, why does that mean you can’t wait until it’s legal to pass the guy? I don’t think the claim here is “you must stay behind the slow annoying driver till he leaves the road” — it’s “you must wait till it’s deemed safe/expected”. The driver of the car is a jerk and overwhelmingly at fault,…

Maybe the hospital rep got confused and thought they’d done it the other way around?

Is there something else the Kardashians are known for?

Do you think there’s some incompatibility between remembering US victims and remembering victims in Afghanistan and Pakistan — that honoring one means dishonoring the other?