I am totally with you up until the point where she asked this store for her deposit back. I think empathy and human decency should keep that kind of request in check.

That's my big thing - she just decided she didn't want to give them her business. They didn't do anything wrong. They fell victim to the same terrible circumstances she did, and now she wants to punish them for it. No.

What's even hilariouser is that her attorney probably charged her more than $479 to write that letter.

Rape culture, right thar. Epitome of rape culture. It's easier to blame the woman and wash your hands of the whole thing then to address the bigger issue at hand which may be financially and socially more costly.

"I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman, your modern "psychology" is confusing and scary to me."

I went on a first date last year with a guy who seemed pretty normal and cute. I went to the bathroom during dinner and when I got back he said "Don't worry, I didn't roofie your drink." I gave him the stink eye then promptly called the waitress over and asked for a replacement drink. My date looked at me like I was…

'I told my two best friends, who told me I was a drunk slut. I never told anyone after that.'

seriously though, clowning is probably one of the most difficult circus disciplines because it is so very easy to be very bad at it. Birthday party and Shriner clowns are an abomination to this world.

I'm pretty sure the fact that you professed to having a favorite clown on the internet just landed you on some kind of watchlist.

Hey now, let's not bring Emmett Kelly into this, he's a legend and a goddamned hero.

That's more than I did, I got a cake from Portillo's and a few balloons! Bam.

You are on the right track. I caution you—do NOT raise the bar on your kids' party expectations. It's a one-way ratchet. There's no lowering the expectations once they've been raised.

My kid is turning 5 this weekend. She gets cake and a piñata, plus 4 hours to run amok with her friends. That's pretty awesome! Fuck any further effort.

Great question! No! No they do not!

"[Women] had equality," Delouis says about the 1950s, before Supreme Court cases legalized contraception and abortion. "But they had to be obedient to their husbands. That's where equality comes: where the mother stayed home and raised the children in God's light, and the husband worked, and everything was great.…

If this pisses you off, and you wish you could do something about it, YOU CAN. Go to Planned Parenthood right now and drop a little money in their bucket. Even if it's just $5. You can make a difference in the world. Go on. Show PP some righteous love. Be one of the people who help fight the darkness.

"I'm very much pro-choice, but a 28-week pregnancy is very, very far from a 'collection of cells'"

"would it not be ethical to override the mother's wish - as it could be clouded by fear of death, medication or illness?"

I think the problem is that viability as defined by doctors is different from what lay people hear. When a doctor says a fetus is viable at 23 weeks they mean it will survive 50% of the time (albeit likely with serious deficits and certainly with a long period in NICU). When a layperson (especially an antiabortion…