WORD. Who hates on the Smithsonian other than bored 9-year-olds on family vacation or the Tea Party?

I've recently moved to the country and I ... um ... really like that dress. I think she looks great?

I'll reluctantly back your position here, with the caveat that the effects of climate change on the world in the future could be such that it's not a place one would want to bring up children and offer them real quality of life. This will be especially the case in developing countries who lack the economic buffer…

The overpopulation thing is a bit over-blown. If you only have 2 kids, you are essentially just replicating yourself and your spouse, which doesn't add to over-population. It's when people are having 3, 4, 5 kids that things get bleak environmentally.

Sidebar Personal Story: Tealights are miniature death traps.

I get what this is about, but as a mixed race person, I don't think keeping the battle lines drawn is a good thing. This is White. This is Black. And never the twain shall meet! If you are White and do a Black thing, I shall tear you down! If you are Black and do a White thing, I shall tear you down! All that ends…

Yawn. As it happens, I do. But trying to equate "redskins" with "yankees" is categorically insane for reasons I don't think I should have to enumerate.

me to. I'm so excited. I almost fell out of my chair when the dress turned into the mocking jay.

Let's not beat a dead horse...

Shiiiiit. You guys I cannot wait for this movie!

Um.

So many of these comments on this are so, so sad. A few are even horrific. But look at this: People keep talking about how their parents or family members have terrible thoughts on abortion and such, come from religious homes, etc., and yet have formed rational, sound opinions for themselves. I have seen first-hand in…

A baby is your precious gift from god EXCEPT WHEN IT'S A PUNISHMENT.

For whatever reason, when I though of my reply to this, I imagined Bill Hader's Stefon saying "It's that thing... of... when, like religious conservatives hate the idea that women can enjoy non-procreative sex and not be punished in some way..." in that breathy voice.

I don't understand being against the thing that can prevent the need for an abortion.

If you are going to be a SAHM and your spouse works full-time, you should be doing all the housework. Being a SAHM is a JOB and it requires WORK. I am a SAHM and I do all that without complaint because while it's no fun to scrub the toilet, that's my job and jobs are not always fun. I can easily get all the housework…

Except nobody EVER gets in dads' faces about "letting other people raise" their kids.

The American corporate world punishes you for ANYTHING that isn't directly related to sucking the profit cock of the corporate world. And that's the real problem: the entire system is rigged against having reasonable lives. We are all working more hours for less money than our parents did, and we're told that this…

Excuse me? No one else is raising my kid but myself and my husband. Just because a child goes to daycare does not mean the parents do not raise the child. Where are you getting this ridiculous idea? We are the ones still responsible for educating, feeding, clothing, and teaching my child.

I think it's a considerable jump to say that Americans caring about these issues is because of the things you're describing, particularly given that you've provided no evidence to back that specific claim up. The much simpler explanation is that global current events such as the Olympics are much more likely to make…