Right on! I never even thought about how budget cuts inappropriately shuffle roles around but you make such a good point.

That was the saddest, most helpless dog face I have ever seen in my life - and my dog is the master of Sad Face for No Apparent Reason.

Seconded. To that I'd add the squat butt-crack check, esp if you work with younger kids or have playground duty.

I think working with younger kids means you can be a little more casual. I worked in pre-k and kinder classrooms and I can't imagine having to wear anything other than sneakers outside of parent-teacher conferences. I had my "dressy" converses (clean, brightly colored) and put insoles in them and wore those with…

I noticed that when I went overseas to Scandinavia, there were a lot fewer artificial dyes in the food. Then I saw this post and realized I wasn't being a crazy anti-American: [www.fooducate.com]

This could be a series: "How to go unpunished for [insert crime here]: Be Rich."

I've been getting massages regularly for two years now, and only recently did an MT massage my chest muscles in more than cursory fashion. It was so painful I nearly cried (and MTs always comment on my high pain tolerance.) apparently the muscles there were so tight that they were "like hard plastic." Afterwards I…

Because anti-choice folks only care about carrying it to term - whatever happens to the baby afterwards isn't their problem. Disabled? Poverty-stricken? Lack access to education? Whatevs - you were born! Suck it up!

My thoughts exactly. Unless her parents signed the contract as well, how is it enforceable? What am I missing?

I've been doing the same thing for years, especially with numerical sizing. And I generally don't care about the number but did figure out that for the sake of my self-esteem (and mild phobia of getting stuck in clothing and being forced to buy it), I always try on the largest size FIRST.

Agreed with all of this. I have friends who've been congratulated on the (non existent) happy event and spent the next week in a body dysmorphic funk; friends who've done the congratulating and had to deal with a world of awkward. Plus at more than one point in my life I've been the person with no visible disability…

Fun fact: refugees from Orange County call it "growing up behind the Orange Curtain."

May I join you on the "never thought we were past it" team> Getting called a gook and being told to go back to where I came from will do that. And I'm supposedly the "model minority" that "real America" tolerates and holds up as an example to the troublemaker minorities. Ugh.

I also worry about the jiggle factor - I always assume that with something skinny I'd also need some stiffness to hold things in. And another question: do jeggings show panty lines? Because thongs =/= comfort to me.

Walker's stunt is yet another example of Republicans using (or in this case, creating) a fiscal crisis to shove austerity measures only at the working middle class.

My friend who's a criminal defense attorney has said the same thing! So there's some anecdotal evidence to back you up.

I read somewhere (sorry no citation) that quite a few of these prison marriages fall apart once the man is out of jail. I imagine that for at least some of these relationships, part of the allure for the woman is the fact that the man is quite literally unavailable, and in a way very safe: visits are generally…

@thebutton19: That is funny, considering that the Catholic Church (and other denominations too, let's not forget) would refuse to inform the new congregation when an abusive priest got transferred.

I know she doesn't name denominations but I'm very curious about the process and what denomination would allow a single pastor to summarily decide to disallow someone Communion not just from his parish but from other parishes as well (and also, how that happens - is there like a "Wanted" poster that goes out to other…

When I was skinnier, I got criticized by other women for my protruding hip bones and bony sternum but complimented on my six pack. Now that I've gained weight, people like my curves (yay boobs?) but criticize my belly.