As a grad student I always silently mocked undergrads. "Finals week? Haha, try five YEARS of finals week, except infinitely more stressful." And as a wage slave I silently mocked grad students. "Stressful? Haha, you smoke weed in your pajamas and read books on your couch all day." Students are kind of ridiculous…

My best friend in high school tried to catch pneumonia by walking around with wet hair in the winter and threw herself down the school stairs to get out of writing exams. The net effect was that she wrote her exams with a cold and badly bruised.

Was she first-born though?

It could also be that firstborn girls are required to be more independent and help out more with younger siblings. The 'helping out' doesn't necessarily mean 'helping raise' or anything like that, but simply being asked to 'look after your [sibling]' or 'help your [sibling] with their homework.' The helping out with…

It's the same in the fashion world. Egomaniac designer Marc Jacobs terrorizes a young Hungarian girl. He's been stalking her since she was 16. He kept her in pszchological torture. Jacobs controls Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and more. Read the truth at: http://goo.gl/WbIrmP

Sooooo does this mean Seann William Scott is gay?

I use a Diva cup. Love the freaking thing. Never going back to tampons

Why is "American" different from "other?" What is "American," exactly? Because, for example, the French in northern New England came through Canada first, but that was probably a long time ago. Doesn't that make them "American" now? I don't understand this map.

Translation: hanging out with the anti-vaxxers is starting to cost me money.

Part of this is our own doing- we want everything to be CHEAP. And you get what you pay for. We demand cheap flights, bargain hunt online, and airlines compensate by nickel and diming customers and/or reducing services and quality. I flew to Mexico for vacation this year (the first vacation I've had in years) and…

He can't be identified from the picture, and I think publishing it really drives home how bad the abuse was. The stepmother says the story isn't true, but if a child in your care looks like that there's no way you aren't being abusive.

Yes! I would also accept the Pit of Despair.

I disagree completely. There is nothing identifiable about the child in this picture and I wouldn't put it here if there was, trust me. But showing this photo adds a very powerful visual element to this story that hammers home the severity of the situation that words just would not be able to do. I say that as someone…

There are not enough horrible things that can happen to these two people.

That person might have been me Lol

While I can appreciate all the comments I'm seeing that express concern over the workers at the shelter not reporting abuse, can we press pause for a moment on that and discuss that THIS is what homophobia causes? When known idiot-with-a-pulpit Sarah Palin talks about how homosexuals are "bullying" America, this is…

What an excellent use of law student efforts. I hope those students get awesome jobs when they graduate, where they continue to be a positive influence on the system.

Three decades in prison.
This made my stomach sink and my heart break.

I'm in shock and disgust that it took them this long to figure out that this plane and it's occupants were gone forever. Anyone more than 2 days into the investigation knew that was the case...

Can we please not call them "pro-vaxxers?" We don't call all tenured biologists pro-evolutionists or all board certified physicians pro-AIDS-truthers. There's no such thing as a pro-vaxx person or physician. There are normal, functional, educated people, and there are vaxx-deniers, AIDS-deniers, and evolution deniers.…