It is. You can google “Drowning man parable” or “Parable of the flood” and come up with dozens of iterations.

I agree. The parents definitely screwed up— big time. However, the part about the midwife concerned me more. The article doesn’t indicate that she was in any sort of trouble. People use doctors and midwives because they don’t know about medicine, so to have one that seems poorly informed and poorly trained is very…

This reminds me of the parable in which a drowning man is offered help by three successive sets of people, and he keeps denying them, saying that God will save him. When he inevitably dies, God asks him why he was such an idiot; He/She had sent all those people to help!

It is also so crazy to me that the flag of a rebellion is allowed to be flown (under the auspices of “freedom of speech”) over government buildings, as well.

Sooo their counter-argument is that it would be just as insulting to fly a confederate flag at the MLK Center in Atlanta...Isn’t that them basically admitting that this isn’t about pride or history, and really it is about racism? In their own statement, they say that celebrating confederate history is diametrically…

“This violates my 1st Amendment Right!” is the new “I plead the Fifth.”

The sugar industry is incredibly powerful and well-protected in the US. That sounds silly, but it’s true.

The fact that Reagan’s campaign would think anything in that song would apply to them:

This must be the WORST. If I were cool, talented, and famous for absolutely anything, one of my nightmares would be someone appropriating my work.

I did Peace Corps, and then went on to an MA and real experience. I know exactly who you’re talking about. I think it’s a great program as an introduction to development, but it’s definitely development-lite.

A majority of people thought (and still think) that anyone “going to Africa” was automatically doing development work. They see no distinction between different African countries. When I said South Africa, I might as well have told them I was going to Somalia.

I work in development and I just want to say an AMEN to your last point! THANK YOU!

Depends. Some do see it as a mini-Peace Corps stunt, others actually think they’re learning abroad, just like you would in Europe.

I mean...where in Africa are we talking? Why are we comparing an entire continent with the teeny tiny UK?

True. See: Dave Eggers or Jonathan Safran Foer.

ME TOO. I was abroad when the first came out. I came back to my normal friends being like, “OMG something better than Harry Potter has come out!” And I was like, “BLASPHEMY! But seriously, I need to borrow a copy!”

I tried to read “Twilight,” but then I realized the author was literally writing about herself as a teenage girl (down to even the physical description), and I was so disturbed by reading what should have stayed in someone’s diary (as well as the obvious emotional abuse, stalking, anti-feminism, poor writing, boring…

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I neeeeed to see this film and I see it’s only playing in one theatre in DC? (And not even really in DC) Ugh what.

An anecdote I thought of because of this post: So as I said, my fiance and I are on verrry unequal footing, which will become even more unequal when he starts a new job. For our one-year anniversary, I wanted to take him out. He always paid for absolutely everything since I was a graduate student, and he would wave…