you know what I find offensive? 18 year olds getting shot and prosecutors intentionally throwing the case

Mad props to a commentator over at Kotaku named Arden who posted this gem:

not a big deal at all except for tone. The Big Bang was first theorized by Fr. Georges Lemaitre, a Jesuit priest and given the blessing of the pope almost immediately. In the midfifties the pope said that there's was no reason a catholic couldn't except Darwinism. Pope John Paul II said there was no debate and that…

You don't have to apologize for reacting in whatever way felt safest for you. That sounds legitimately frightening.

I was walking in an unfamiliar city last week and got a "you're beautiful" or something and I continued walking, not paying him any attention. Somehow, he managed to get in front of me a few blocks up the street and there was no one else on that particular block.

The chief neonatologist at the very respected teaching hospital where I had MiniMinkoff poo-pooed my suggestion that it seemed my milk supply was simply not coming in sufficiently to feed Mini told me, "Nonsense. Any woman walking down the street out there can produce enough milk to feed that baby tomorrow. You have a…

goodwifebrown, the WHO is against hospitals giving out free formula because Nestle did this for years, decades really, and had special "baby nurses" giving out the formula and "educating" the new mothers into thinking that their breast milk was crap compared to baby formula, etc., etc. Millions of babies have died in…

I have never cried as hard as I did when my son wasn't latching well, and I wasn't producing enough. If only people knew the INSANE pressure that is put on moms who have just given birth. I tried, dammit- and the relief of finally giving my baby the food and nutrition he needed when we switched to formula was one of…

As a mother who struggled with breastfeeding her first and had to quit (but 15 months exclusive with my second - go me!), these posters would have made me want to smash things. I certainly hope this was accompanied by increased access to proper lactation assistance at hospitals and at home and you know - MAT LEAVE.…

As the other poster mentioned previously, the costs of providing in-school services to a student with autism far exceed the dollar amount provided to the school for that cost. In my experience as a mental health professional, there is a strong disincentive for schools to accept autism diagnoses because of the…

""Toxins" is the modern-day equivalent of "ill humours.""

Well, not exactly. A portion of the increase is attributable to changes in diagnostic criteria and inclusion of Asperger's into the overall diagnosis of autism. But that is not the sole reason for the apparent increase. A number of epidemiological studies have examined this question, as discussed in this JAMA editorial

A serving according to them is pretty damn small. For lean meats, a chicken breast is usually about three servings. One serving of broccoli is like a handful of florets. I started measuring food while pregnant to make sure I was getting enough of all the "recommended" stuff and was really surprised by official serving…

Agreed. This isn't how science works. Like, at all. With science, you go: observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, and sometimes make a theory. But evo psych goes: observation, extremely limited experiment to replicate observation (ex - women are guilty whorey slutfaces...let's confirm this!), hypothesis to…

You CAN teach a baby to drink from a bottle, absolutely! It's smart to ask the lactation consultant at the hospital about preparing to go back to work, as she may be willing to take an appointment in a month or two to help— I visited a great lactation consultant a couple of times with my younger son and it was a huge…

This is the part I don't understand.

I really want to be sympathetic, but the examples seem more like Dave Eggers fictionalizing things that happened in real life, which Losse wrote about first. I'm sure that if you read any number of accounts of employees working at Facebook or other tech startups there would mentions of getting passwords, Friday…

Yes! Room arrangement is key to management. My classroom right now has all tables, and it suuuuucks. I love my kids (high school Spanish), but damn, they talk! But then, I would too if I wasn't naturally facing the teacher.

When I taught, they were in desks, and I noticed that throughout the day and week, the desks got mysteriously pushed closer together. It contracted like material in a black hole or something. So I put tape on the floor to show where the four corners of the area were, and the corner desks and a few other landmarks,…

On behalf of Black women everywhere, I assure this guy that he is in no danger of any Nubian woman even thinking about dating him.