I have never been this close to writing fanfiction in my life I swear to god. It would involve him and Gilly getting a nice little cottage and Samwell reading a lovely book and the making of pies and both of them just having an extremely safe time.

Akter told the Nation that she doesn't want consumers to stop buying goods produced in Bangladesh: she wants them to raise their voices. She wants us to raise our voices. Akter doesn't support a boycott of Bangladeshi goods — the millions of women employed by the garment industry depend on their jobs for income.…

It's important — desperately important — to take Akter's message about not withdrawing money from Bangladesh to heart. Instead, shift your dollars: Find out who has signed the accord, who is willing to actually participate in the necessary steps to bring fairer labor practices and much stricter safety regulations to…

I think this is more about the NYT finding poor people problems sooo fascinating. There are plenty of people, hispters or not, who can't afford to just get up and go or find it really convenient to stay where they are because in New York it's even more so about location, location, location. I don't think this is NYers…

That's straight up bullshit. Just yesterday I was trying to fit all my cash into my small balenciaga motocycle bag and it wouldn't fit! I had given all my space saving black credit cards to my assistants to pick up my weekly shopping. I was forced to use my giant louis vuitton weekend bag and totally threw my back out…

WOAH, I thought we were just going to hear about a young child and her family getting hunted down and brutally murdered. Why do I need to hear all this awful stuff about self discovery? This isn't cable television!

I wouldn't want those claws anywhere near my ladybusiness. Yee-OWCH.

To quote James D. Nicoll:

from that MRA mentioned at the end:

As a personal letter to your mom, I have no issues with it. It is between you and your mom and only you know which are the points you need to raise with her to try to get your relationship with her to a better place.

I'm the author, I know it is not fantastic, I know it's navel-gazey. I wrote it to my mom to address the things she'd just been accusing me of/yelling at me about. The event I referenced was being raped, I did not tell my mom about that because she would blame me. She is a very Fox News/Tea Party kind of person. I did…

This is lousy advice all around. The modern businessperson acknowledges their colleagues with a hearty fist bump. [Pro Tip: Do not fist bump with your ring fist!]

Hm. Well. That was long. I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be here, since I'm not this girl's mother (she sounds nice) and I'm not this girl.

Relevant!

totally... She needs to take a tip from GAGA and be ugly sometimes - Gaga is funny and fabulous.

Personal story: I have a young cousin who is autistic. My aunt, who is a registered nurse, claims that vaccines were the definite cause of his autism and will tell parents with a young child to "space out" their vaccines to avoid the risk of autism or skip them altogether. (Again, registered nurse.) It's just sad…

To whomever selects the images for the stories! A blogger for SciAm raised an interesting point about imagery use in vaccination stories. Images of needles tend to evoke negative responses, whereas images of healthy people or scary images of diseases would be much more effective at giving a pro-vaccine message.

Possibly, or maybe because they've seen children with autism they can imagine it happening to them, but because they've never encountered a child dying of measles or diphtheria it just seems impossible? Either way, they are seriously lacking in both historical perspective and common sense.

It's not a really interesting prompt. It's no more interesting than a prompt asking students to defend racism, segregation, patriarchy, or homophobia. And the assumption that asking students to presume an inegalitarian posture will somehow naturally/magically reveal to them the fallacies of such arguments is…