Not just your body but your mind. Two and a half years allows for your first child to be somewhat less dependant on you than an 18 month old. That saves on the stress of caring for 2 relatively needy children.

It's not minor- pregnancy puts a lot of strain on your body, and it's important that women are able to recuperate before putting themselves under that strain so closely over and over again, to avoid negative health outcomes down the line.

Yeah, damn you medical science with your facts!

In Canada you have to work a certain number of weeks before you are eligible for paid mat leave, so you couldn't do this and get paid leave for the second one.

Are not snitches the cowards? Snitches end up in ditches, and ditches love snitches.

Honestly, sans herpes knowledge, I probably wouldn’t intervene if things weren’t serious with the main guy.

Why the heck would you yell at a kid that young about not knowing the Pledge? That just seems kinda mean.

This happened in my family once. My cousin brought his other family to the family party and my father told him that wasn’t his wife and he had to leave.

In the movie 200 Cigarettes Ben Affleck’s character unleashes a series of cheesy pick-up lines including, “How do you like your eggs in the morning? Scrambled or fertilized?”

Seriously. I am a teacher, and we pledge every morning. When I thought about it, I realized that “One nation, indivisible” MAKES SENSE. Throwing “Under God” in there messes with the basic idea there. So I stopped saying “Under God.”

Thank you. I love my outrage served with a big laugh!

Or the Pledge of Allegiance? It looked just fine till they added “under God” in 1954. Guessing Poe liked that change. Idiot.

And then there are her strongly held feminist beliefs interpreting and dictating how other women and girls should practice their cultural and religious norms. Fuck off, sanctimonious lady.

Yeah, the separation of headscarves and state is right there in the Constitution. Do you guys think the school board spokeswoman is equally adamant about the separation of church and state when it comes to kids singing Christmas carols in school?

Wow, this Sharon Poe person sounds like a particularly disgusting human being.

I was sleeping over at my cousin’s house when we were both 16 or so. We were always close growing up so our girls’ night sleepovers were some of the best times for us.

Well yes exactly. I mean I *thought* it was a burn at the time, and even his cop buddy laughed, but I obviously sounded ridiculous. I guess the story came off as callous or flippant about drunk driving though. That wasn’t my intention, though I can see how it reads like that. It was one of those horrible one time…

I was working at the video desk at the library in the dark years before DVDs, blu-rays, or even streaming or digital downloads! It was a brutal time.

Well I was lucky that I was pulled over truthfully-I was arrogant and young, something that, I assume by your tone, you have never been. Also unless Winston Churchill is me, I didn’t steal this story from anyone. Just because the burn was stolen from him -many burns *are* reappropriated. What makes something a burn is…

Age 21, standing on the sidewalk after getting pulled over for suspected drunk driving.