Good additions. If I may, I will file them away for future use.

If by "miracle" you mean "Let's disenfranchise huge populations, exploit prison labor, and treat workers like dogshit" then, yes.

It is amazing what you can get accomplished when you have no environmental, labor, or safety protections.

My face is leaking, too.

This article and the linked article's abstract contain historical errors, and you have pointed out one of them. Hitchcock was already working on the script for The Birds when the domoic acid poisoning occurred in Capitola, CA. Hitchcock wasn't a "local visitor"; he had a ranch about 10 miles away. He was in L.A. at…

I love my own cats with all the fiery power of my shriveling ovaries, but if a person has a reason to give a cat away, I will ONLY jump down their throat if they do a half-assed job of finding a reasonable situation for the cat. Does the cat have a place to sleep, access to food, and a person who gives it attention…

Well-earned.

Keep your lung! It's important! Pull up! Pull up! nahooooga!

Beaker! That is excellent!

Sorry in re: tramp stamp. I agree with you in principal, but was unable to resist using the phrase "tramp-stampal region," partly because I think that the logo is there precisely because of that region's demeaning associations vis-a-vis women. It's an extension of the pink ideology: even while doing yoga, women are…

Pink AND have some stupid logo printed on the tramp-stampal region. I wanted to straight arm just about everyone I saw out shopping today, but especially the women with "goddesswear" written above their cracks, partly because of the writing, partly because I'm abnormally aggressive, and partly because they were all…

As I said, the guy is a perv.

Most girls in the US starts their periods when they're 12. Most girls start developing breasts 2 years before their first periods. So, yes, 11-year-olds often have secondary sex characteristics.

Exactly. See also, germ theory.

Who in the hell are these allegedly Christian people who think that body snarking the First Lady of the United States IN CHURCH is an okay thing to do? In CHURCH.

But, global warming IS a theory, and no scientist would say it isn't. It's just that in science "theory" does NOT mean "some made-up shit I just made up."

Also, are these people then going to complain about "anchor fetuses"?

So, so hearted.

In other words, it would be exactly like human marriage.

Since the rape and degradation of women is used, frequently, as a tool of war, I think that noticing the particular GENDERED ways in which violence is used on women is completely appropriate. Stripping a woman and dragging her through the street has a different cultural and social reason and effect than doing the same…