He has to register as a sex offender so I guess there’s that as a consolation prize. How many schools will happily let the registered sex offender come talk to kids?

Here’s the deal though. I live in Waco and the newspaper - the Waco Trib - has had extensive coverage since this all started breaking. But this was THEIR story to break and Baylor was like a sacred cow. This was a story that didn’t take much digging to uncover - remember that last fall before Baylor hired PH they had…

Title IX and Violence Against Women Act specifically outline responsibilities of a school if students are involved regardless of whether it happened on or off campus. This is one finding of the Pepper Hamilton investigation - that Baylor erroneously believed it lacked jurisdiction because incidents happened off…

The insane thing is that they don’t even see it as weighing risks, they don’t acknowledge that going without vaccines is inherently risky. They present it as risky option (vaccines) and non-risk option (no vaccines) when actual science shows that it’s a very low risk option (vaccines) and more risky option (no…

I usually call to find out (1) should I be worried right now, if not (2) when should I be worried? It’s usually the same response - fever that lasts more than 3 days, change in behavior - particularly listless, trouble breathing, rash - any of those mean bring them in. I’m sorry but as a parent almost always you know…

My 8 year old daughter is supporting Hillary because of her gender, but I’m giving her a pass. We were talking about it the other day and I was telling her how I choose who I vote for - I said I pick the person I think is the smartest and whose ideas make the most sense to me and that person is Hillary Clinton. And…

Like everything he says, this is so weird. Why is this game limited to birthday parties? And presumably since there are other children at these parties is this a game for all the children? I have little girls and I guarantee you that the only way this game would be appealing to them is if the end of the game resulted…

I’m not disagreeing, I just stated a fact as did the previous commenter, that the US does in fact negotiate with terrorists, and sometimes we negotiate with Muslim terrorists. I get it, diplomacy is tricky and delicate and it isn’t always black and white. But why don’t we just admit that at every level of our…

Oh I’m very familiar with that, I was in college in the late 80's and my college had an Aghan Studies department. Except we didn’t call them Muslim terrorists back then because they were helping us fight the nasty communists. So that clearly doesn’t count.

Apparently we do negotiate with muslim terrorists though, I’m listening to Serial and that’s how the US got Bowe Bergdahl back.

Apropos of nothing - when I lived in LA, I was once at a movie and a woman and a man were making out at the end of our row the entire movie. When the lights came on I saw that the woman was Cheryl Tiegs. And the movie was Pulp Fiction.

You know there’s a link in the article to the procedures that the Committee follows. I went ahead and read them and the process allows the accused to respond in writing, then there’s a fact finding period during which he would presumably be interviewed, then there’s a hearing where both parties have an opportunity to…

I agree on the slut shaming aspect because people are awful. But on the scot free aspect, I still have hope. The assistant DA Hilary Laborde is pretty vocal about being fed up with Baylor sweeping crap under the rug and she successfully prosecuted Ukwuachu. Whether they did it purposely to not involve Baylor, the…

Also the same Ken Starr who last year wrote a letter of support for a pedophile administrator at the Potomac School.

The time that Van Gogh was in Arles is very interesting because he went with Paul Gaugin and they shared the yellow house. It was a tumultuous time and when Van Gogh famously sliced off his ear- they parted ways after two months and never saw each other again. I saw an exhibition several years ago at the Art Institute…

I was GBS positive too and had the IV antibiotics but I’m super lucky because I’m allergic to penicillin which is the first choice for GBS so I had a broad spectrum antibiotic which usually makes me sick but for some reason I was fine - maybe because it was an IV instead of pills for 7-14 days. I also did a probiotic…

Unless you are married and in a community property state, even if your spouse gets a credit card in their name, you are on the hook for the debt.

I just read a paper by Harvard economist Claudia Goldin regarding the wage gap and it’s very interesting. Discriminiation does play a part in the wage gap but even removing that, there’s still a gap. She attributes it to temporal flexibility and interchangeability of workers (women still bear most of the burden of…

I can’t believe I know this too but I do. They knew she had at least 4 mature follicles (I’ve done IUI and IVF, when you are nearing ovulation they do an ultrasound and count the mature follicles) so the chances were very high that she could have gotten pregnant with multiples. My doctor wouldn’t even do an IUI with…

And then vitamins/minerals added to it. Just eat a handful of almonds and take a multi-vitamin and you’re far better off. Unless you are a baby and your parents are morons.