I'm sure her testimony would have been helpful. But berating her because of mental health problems (that are probably tied to the abuse in the first place) and jailing her is not helpful to anyone.

Perfect album title for this post.

First of all, I have no idea what that has to do with your puppy mill analogy- the topic was what obligation a pro-lifer has towards the unwanted children they are creating. Second, I support bodily autonomy in all forms. No one should be forced to have sex. No one should be forced to be pregnant. End of story.

And Sarah Palin.

I have some Disney Princess stickers if you need them.

But what if you got pink steel-toed boots? Practical and feminine!

Now everything makes sense!

Puppy mills are a bad comparison, because they are businesses. If you’re anti-puppy mill, all you have to do is NOT get a puppy mill puppy. It’s about refusing to support them in hopes that they will stop being profitable and shut down. There’s a difference between boycotting a business and insisting that women keep…

I was gay before I was a feminist. How did that happen?

I'd be curious to see what these men have to say about the white, male college kid who was sentenced to hard labor for attempting to steal a sign.

I would like to point you to Ted Conover. For his book Newjack, he took a job as a prison guard for a year and wrote about his experiences there. Much like Kim, he immersed himself in a dangerous situation and then wrote a first-person book. But Conover's work is considered literary journalism. He is well-respected as…

Plus you can’t back out if you commit suicide with a gun. If you swallow a whole bottle of pills, for example, you can realize you made a terrible mistake and go to the hospital, or someone who cares about you can get you medical help. There’s no saving yourself once you put a bullet in your head.

Just based on the quotes in this article, the mom seems slightly more reasonable, like maybe killing her child actually got it through her head that she’d done something wrong. But who knows.

I wonder if the other kids are going to be home with her.

I’d call it both abuse and murder. Because the kid didn’t just die, he suffered first.

Hopefully they will at least be monitoring the other kids to make sure this doesn’t happen again. But I don’t know much about how that kind of thing works in Canada.

All you need is one good kid with a stick to stop a bad kid with a stick. That’s why stick-free zones are so dangerous.

The good news as far as Trump is that way more people pay attention and vote for presidential elections.

Most of us realize that we have both. But fixing a “people problem” is next to impossible, because we can’t know what every single person is thinking. We can, however, limit the amount of damage people can cause by limiting their access to weapons.

If we replaced every Florida politician with Tatiana Maslany, I feel like a lot more would actually get done.