How exactly is he serving the country?

God, thank you for not being blinded by the hero-worship everyone else seems to be in thrall to. This whole thread is making me so incredibly pissed off. I bet a lot of these people saying "I love and support the military, it's not their fault!" think they're Leftists, too.

Oh, fuck your fucking warrior complex. There is nothing inherently heroic about signing up for the military. We don't get to criticize soldiers? What about the thousands that rape citizens and their fellow soldiers? The thousands that commit war crimes and murder civilians? No, they're soldiers, so make sure to shake…

You obviously aren't educated on the subject if you think the purpose of a boycott is to keep yourself at a literal arm's length from the products. The point is to (pointedly) avoid giving money to offending companies, which is accomplished by buying those products secondhand. I have my reservations about the…

I'm curious why you would assume that I live in a particularly good thrifting area, instead of assuming that you happen to live in a particularly bad one. (I didn't mean to cast aspersions on your location by calling it an "awful area," I was just responding to your description of the diversity of thrift stores.) I'm…

I agree with most of what you said, but I do want to point out that it is perfectly possible to not be able to source all of your clothing from thrift stores or ethical manufacturers, even if you care. Besides the issue of access to stores that have enough of a variety to supply a family's wardrobe, things like…

I live in a midsize city, and have bought 80% of my clothes from thrift stores my entire life. I look perfectly presentable. I'm not sure how much thrifting you've actually done, or if you just happen to live in an awful area, but it is perfectly possible to not look like "someone's crazy aunt" while wearing used…

There are thousands of thrift shops that aren't Goodwill or Salvation Army. And I'm mostly not trying to do anyone else a favor by shopping there (although it does alleviate some guilt about putting money towards exploitative companies), I'm doing myself a favor by not shelling out three hours of wages for a pair of…

You know, I'm tempering my skepticism a tiny bit because I've used a coffee-ground face mask that definitely made my face less puffy. It also gave me even more of a caffeine buzz than drinking the coffee did.

Nope, not ok. Goodbye.

Dude, just because someone has a PhD in math doesn't mean they should be expected to write papers on Faulkner. There is no "doctorate level" of reading.

YA literature is literature aimed at older kids/teenagers, not literature that features them. A Room with a View and David Copperfield are by no definition YA lit, just like Room isn't a children's book just because the protagonist is a child. Most YA does limit itself in the topics it can cover and the depth and…

Ooh, I've been meaning to read Half-Broke Horses since I saw an Amish mother reading it at the train station. Partly because I loved The Glass Castle, and partly because I want to know what the Amish read.

You might want to admit at this point that you don't actually know that much about what is and is not dangerous for newborns, if you don't think it's appropriate to treat a newborn and a five-month-old differently.

Oh, of course—I mean technically. There are many fewer problems to encounter when you're using a bottle, and there's a much shorter learning curve.

I mean, it is significantly easier to bottlefeed than to breastfeed. What were you hoping to learn from a lactation consultant about bottlefeeding?

Eek! If you're losing that much blood, you're probably at risk of anemia. Iron supplements will treat that.

Google says heavy blood loss during menstruation is 60-80 mL. The size 1 Diva Cup is about 20 mL, and size 2 is about 25 mL. So if you're filling it more than 3 times, I would definitely see a gyn—and take some iron supplements! Hope everything's ok!

The cross is a much better comparison than the hijab. A hijab is more than an "expression" of religion; most hijabis feel that to not wear hijab would be unacceptably immodest, for themselves at least. And there is an explicit rule here that he is breaking, unfair or not. I'm sure he would be free to wear the feather…

What? I didn't say anything about the feather. And I'm not assuming anything, that's my point. I just don't think it's impossible that the half-Native student body embraces the school's mascot and team name. As cartoons go, this one is pretty inoffensive—it seems like a stretch to call it a caricature.Would it be…