Actual footage from France:

I'm so sorry. If it's any comfort, think of what their home life must be. Child rearing is an area of human life where people make their own punishments.

And this boy was age 10 or 11?

Ah, yes. The fewer, the more precious.

One thing missing from these stories is children. Most people have some vague idea when they are being annoying and demanding for themselves, but there is no limit to what can be righteously demanded for "my kids".

Why is anyone trying to talk about science, let alone true re. this story, when it's clearly a story about capitalism?

I wish they would stop coupling "Doctor" and "Who" in their headlines. It gets me all excited.

If you think you can text and walk without incident, it is only because lesser mortals, those without really important things to do like yourself, have been watching out for you and getting out of your way. You may think you're avoiding obstacles, but you're really just weaving around like drunken sailors.

This points up the problem I have with the superhero job description, which seems to be: fight crime, engage with supervillains, be conflicted. Shouldn't they devote some of their supertime to monitoring suicide spots, and helping in other ways that do permanent good?

The fate of lion cubs when a new male lion takes over the pride would could to mind, except that the fate of human children in similar circumstances is more cruel.

Possibly you should read the linked article closely (and there are plenty more of them out there — see the coverage in The National Post, which for once got something right) before making some sweeping statements of your own.

I like the pictures from Patricia di Renzo's photoshoot. Not that I understand the point of them, but they look like costumes from a decent movie.

Another day, another child fed to a boyfriend. Or another boyfriend who was mother's hit man.

While you're there, have a look at Night Nurse:

Not so much ahead of its time as suppressed in its time.

Pens are mighty in situations like these; and unlike swords, you can bring them on the airplane.

As much as I am completely likely to see The Pirate Fairy, to use actors as genetically gifted as TH and Christina Hendricks in an animated film is merely perverse.

Ugh, yes. I've intervened in a couple of situations like this, to happy result, and still almost the only questions are "weren't you scared?" and "what if something bad happened?"

I don't think this was quite fat-shaming, or if it was, it was almost irrelevant.