I totally hear you. The wording sounds super holier-than-thou, but I suspect it's a cover for dealing with infertility and feeling like a failure for not being able to conceive (something I went through).

I totally understand. And during my infertility phase, it wasn't like we didn't look into it. However, the road to adoption is best done through the foster route, and the truth was, I adore adore adore babies. I wanted a baby so badly, and was scared that the foster route just wasn't something I could handle. And…

I didn't know that. Damn it, now I really really respect her.

On the flip side, what if women who can't get pregnant and want the experience to get pregnant, go through pregnancy and childbirth, and take care of the child from the instant it's born?

Amazing comment.

I can only hope that similar word is spreading about the more than 400,000 already-born children with eyes and arms and smiles and memories and feelings who are currently in foster care!

The cop's face on the left sums up my feelings quite accurately.

And she was the kidnapping attempt in 2003! This story is unreal. Killed and raped 87 year old, aquitted, a short time later raped 70-something year old, got robbery charges. Then kidnapping. This guy should never have been allowed to leave prison.

I'm STILL upset about Alex Wong. That man was genius.

Someone check whether Dr. Kevin Pezeshki has a wife with a breastpump in her home.

You don't have to. Just have a light bulb break by accident, or throw them in the trash where they crack, and you breathe in mercury all by itself. If you have carpeting, mercury gets into the fibers. If you vacuum it, mercury can get caught in the filter, or the air from the vacuum can cause it to disperse around…

From http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/06/12/how-much-do-chicago-public-school-teachers-make/

I truly hate comments aimed at people in the form of condescending questions that begin with "You do realize that. . .?"

You're right. I taught for years, and now I went full time and I work less hours overall, compared to the "part time" work of teachers. It's hard work, and it can be just brutal at times. I do feel for teachers, and in a fantastic world, they would be paid legions above things like investment bankers and real…

If the dress code is written formally, take a photocopy of that either to (a) HR, if you're in a commercial lab (b) Dean, if you're in a University.

I see. So billionaire Penny Pritzker is now contractually obligated to give her billions to the CPS? I agree it's a cool point to raise, that the billionaire is cutting educational things in order to keep within the budget, but the school board isn't there to fill in the state budget's gaps.

If the teachers' sticking point was, "Hey! Smaller classroom sizes!" and "Our classroom is 60 degrees!", I completely agree. But it's not. Time and again, the main crux of the union's movement to strike is:

Longer school days = the same length of time of school that the rest of the country has. As I mentioned elsewhere, teachers in CPS and in other areas have the same level of pay, despite the fact that CPS teachers work a shorter workday, and even when Chicago actually has lower cost-of-living expenses than other…

I am a teacher. Or, have been, after working in the field for years. After years of being up at all hours of the night and at the crack of dawn to keep my lesson plans current, interesting, and integrated with active learning techniques, in addition to grading and test formulation, believe me, I know how hard…