Why aren't parents and teachers beating teenagers like they used to? Seriously. I'm not sure if a couple stout blows would fix this sort of thing but I know it'd make me feel better about it.

Do you have some sort of highly specific brain damage that makes every argument you make a freaking strawman? It's a god damn ugly tie.

Isn't that Honey Boo Boo's mom?

Hole in one! Pay all bets.

They're more interested in the orifice.

And it'll only help to cement his support at home. Do you see him pulling back at all despite the economic harm cheap oil and some of the financial sanctions have caused? If you think you can force Putin to back down through economic pain, you're fooling yourself. That ship sank years ago with the Russian middle class…

It's pretty clear that Putin is going to keep pushing until there's pushback and this sort of piddling sanction crap isn't going to cut it. At some point, you either have to put up or shut up and no one thinks that Putin isn't going to start nudging at Article 5 next for the Baltic states. If we really don't want to…

There's no indication Jenner was rear-ended. The woman who hit you, would be the one responsible for the incident and the subsequent aftermath. This is also why the whole...the paparazzi caused the accident thing doesn't fly with me. If the paparazzi were ramming your car, you have a legitimate excuse but in most of…

There's pretty much no possible excuse for rear-ending someone. It all falls to driver inattention in one form or another. Because of Jenner, a woman is dead. He'll need to take responsibility for it.

I'm slightly off the demographic here. I was born in '76 so maybe I missed this phenomena in my formative years. What I can tell you is that there was definitely a geographic difference. My cousin from LA came with my uncle to live here in Jersey in the early 90's and he brought the whole Chigga experience with him.…

"sea mammal enthusiast"

I think what he's saying is that death is at least an ending and someone who suffers a rape has to live in suffering for the rest of their lives. Thus, the only humane thing to do is to put rape victims down for their own good. It wouldn't be fair to cause them to suffer all that trauma.

The number is ridiculously flawed and is actually nowhere near that high for any direct measurement in any study that's ever been done. If you're really interested, here's a good summary with links by the Marshall Project.

Holy crap. Are we sure she didn't coke up that cat just to try to make a viral video? Or maybe some confederate is just hurling the cat back and forth because that's some serious hangtime it's getting. If a freaking cat flew at my face like that I'd shriek like a little girl and trap it in the closet.

I have no clue what things are like in Oregon but wouldn't medicaid at least have kicked in at some point and covered the healthcare costs? It's not a great time since the recession for trying to get on the disability rolls as things are so ridiculously backed up, but you should still give it a whirl. Keep going…

Sorry, I should have added this to make it extra clear. They tested the women in that SMALL sample every 3-4 days and found a .6 correlation between tests. All the other women they just tested them ONCE at some point during their third trimester and used that for all their analysis. So imagine if out of your entire…

Disability is not all it's cracked up to be either. I was bitter as all @#$% for years and years. It especially didn't help that I didn't qualify for full disability insurance as I didn't have enough working years and grad school didn't count. I used to darkly joke I should go around to highschools and run my own…

If anyone needs a takehome synopsis for why this study really shouldn't worry you unless you happen to live in a new car smell factory....here it is:

ABD PhD in psychopharmacology from the U of Chicago. Had around 5 first author publications and a R03 funded on studies looking at nicotinic antagonists on drug reward pathways in both humans and animals (rats). Had a medical issue come to a head in my 6th year and had to goo on disability.

It's a worthless piece of crap that has no scientific validity whatsoever. Basically, if you can't find significance with all the statistical tricks available to your every day scientist, there's nothing there worth tinkering with.