I believe the guy that was bit but I also think there could be a far less diva-ish explanation for Perrette’s actions, eg hypervigilance as a result of PTSD (related to the attack mentioned above) caused her to have an outsized reaction to the danger posed by the dog. People can be unreasonable without necessarily…

Why don’t you let your kid choose what’s for dinner? I mean, sure, set boundaries, discuss the issue, lay out the groundwork to help them make good choices. Heck, even make them cook whatever they pick to help them learn new skills and promote the notion that making a choice means being responsible for the outcome.…

Right? His quote about “What’s going to happen to that poor kid later on if we accept them and support them?”

intersex people: still waiting for the outrage against and banning of harmful intersex surgery

Transphobes: “When you’re a kid, you don’t know anything about your sexuality or gender. It’s wrong to impose an agenda on them!”

“I told you you weren’t gonna arrest me”.

Zirconia and Polyester will be at the head of the line to cape with, “But rappers say it!”

Agreed. “Grab ‘em by the pussy” didn’t change anything, why would this? At this point, it would only entrench people on both sides.

They may have it, but would that really change anything if it were released? Everyone who hates him will still hate him. Everyone who loves him will still love him (some will love him MORE, of course). And Diamond & Silk will come up with some dumb excuse for his racism that’s not really any dumber than anything else…

Perhaps a proper consequence should be community service, send him around to offices and work places to talk to people about how it could happen to them.  How one day of distraction could lead to a lifetime of regret and loss.  Raise awareness among people in hopes that everyone becomes more aware and vigilant. 

Same thing happened just a few months ago here in Oregon, with the parent who was an overworked ER nurse. We’re all capable of having a lapse that leads to something horrible like this happening, even those who work in the medical field day in and day out. Hand cuffing them and throwing them in jail while they’re…

That is why the solution shouldn’t fall on car companies, but rather the Child Seat companies. If you start putting sensors in cars today, you will not see 100% of the cars on the road sporting them for decades at best. People just don’t upgrade their cars often enough for things to change quickly.
But. put those…

I think when you blame people what you are really doing is whistling past the graveyard. “This person did a bad thing. I’m a good person. I will never have to worry about doing this.” It’s just a thing people do, trying to outsmart that “There but for the grace of God go I.” instinct about tragedy. Swept away in flash…

I’m a new first-time mom with serious “baby brain” brought on by hormonal shifts and sleep deprivation. I also have an irregular schedule. I work from home two days a week (with a babysitter) and go into the office three days, but on one day family watches the baby and on the other two he goes to daycare. I’m pretty…

I used to be one of those people who said only a dithering moron could accidentally leave their child in a car like that. I try not to be such a judgmental asshole these days. I don’t succeed all the time, but at least now when I see stories like this I feel sick for everyone involved instead of angry at the parent.

This is a fairly new feature on GM cars & trucks. If you have opened the back door before you first drive off, it activates the warning when you stop and shut the car off. Has nothing to do with temperature to my knowledge.

The problem is that a warning the triggers *everytime* will soon just become background noise.

This would never happen to me.

I think the better question is: does there always have to be someone to blame? 

There are easier technological solutions, I think—some new cars being developed have sensors that remind the driver that there’s still somebody in the back seat, for example. We just need to have that technology become standard, and unfortunately, older (and lower-tech) vehicles don’t have it.