To be fair, when he works with the kids, he really puts their blood, sweat and tears into it.

"we were even referring to the slopes as 'radiant'"

Dawn broke in Miami, turning the almost-bearable damp grey early dawn into the sauna-like heat that was fall in Miami (as opposed to the sauna-like heat of summer in Miami or the sauna-like heat of winter in Miami). Nigel sat quietly in the lot. The sun felt good on his skin, but he knew it was wrecking his leather.

Careful with that axe Wes. This was my riding buddy, Dave. He was a mountaineer, mountain biker, skier, road racer, enduro rider and left 14 motorcycles behind in his garage when he was killed. More importantly, he left a wife and three kids. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/per…

The man is in denial of Murphy's Law.

"one friend was killed in full safety gear by a woman who ran a red light." Yeah totally sounds like an idiot. You are starting to sound like a real asshole, is that truthful enough for you? I hope you never die on your motorcycle because then you'll automatically be considered an idiot, right?

Most you are probably right but one friend was killed in full safety gear by a woman who ran a red light. Safety gear can only go so far. 5000lbs!!? my cars are from 2800 to 3400lbs, plus a bike would not work since I take two kids to school and day care before work. But thanks for proving the Bike rider=PC Master…

I don't think that's the textbook definition, but it works for me.

Because when your kids are white, you can speak to them about the racial intolerance of others from a safe distance. But when your child is brown and you aren't and no one else is, it's going to be a much, much more painful lesson. The latter is something I would want to avoid if possible, at least early on. The…

How about I take Payton? I'm black (so I can do her hair without freaking out!). I live in mulit-cultural San Francisco, and I have a reference (I've already raised a biracial daughter).

I think it really depends on what the person wants. That's generally the rule of thumb I go by, most trans* people I know are cool with asking questions, especially when it comes to pronoun usage and how they're referred to.

§ 6301 Corruption of minors.

Yeah I'm uncomfortable with some of this. Like, if a doctor botches a man's vasectomy and his wife gets pregnant, but they decide to keep the baby, they can still sue the doctor for fucking up. Would that be suggesting that the baby wasn't loved?

I don't know her personally to judge her level of racism. But people here are jumping the gun and interpreting her emotional distress claim as "emotional distress because I'm stuck with this horrible unwanted black child" rather than "emotional distress because I have no clue how to address the racial issues that will…

This is why I only eat Rainbow Trout and five bean salad — all the colors and I support gays, too.

I'm really horrified by the response here. At this point, I expect Jez to call someone a racist if they prefer egg-white omelets.

Thank you. I don't understand why people are extrapolating her admission that race is an issue to mean she doesn't love her daughter. There's a reason people who adopt cross-culturally have to go through extra screening; it's HARD to grow up in a community where nobody looks like you. This mother admittedly has no…

What's interesting to me about this is that not long ago, I remember reading an article on this very site in which a white woman in Canada sued a sperm bank because they categorically refused to allow her to opt for insemination with sperm from a black man, saying that they would only inseminate women with sperm from…

Is it not possible she didn't realize the extent of the issue until she lived there with a biracial baby? Obviously, as a white woman, she'd be shielded from quite a lot of overt racism toward blacks like the place that refused to cut her kid's hair.

Wrongful birth IS malpractice. I don't know why people keep harping on "she's a shithead for suing for this and not malpractice."