I have always been pro-choice, but pregnancy has increased my conviction tenfold. I live in NY and had amnio at 17 weeks. The safest time to get amnio is between 16-18 weeks, and it can take 3 weeks to get the full results. That means, by the time you find out your child has a genetic defect, you could be 21 weeks…

Helicopter parenting is bad and you can’t shelter them from bad stuff in the world too much but I feel like “I don’t want my children interacting with a known serial killer” is a fairly reasonable request?

I KNOW. I got into a huge fight with her about vaccines. Luckily, she is okay with most vaccines but actually buys into the idea of “big pharma.”

The thing is, she didn’t used to have all of these wacky ideas. I’ve seen her become more and more paranoid, conservative and frankly racist as she’s gotten older. She also…

• Report: the Democratic party remains very stupid. [The Hill]

I’m thinking it’s the dementia. Probably thought he was at a Yankees game circa 1983 when it would be okay to sing/hum along.

If he went to the trouble of *purchasing* rights Koons most certainly knew it wasn’t a random porcelain figure “found at a Russian factory at the turn of the 20th century,” the way he originally claimed. SERIOUSLY, people.

I’m sorry... what? the “artist is cool with it”?? Did you even read the article?

I maintain they think Catholics are a soft target, so to speak. They never mentioned any of the really weird shit to our atheist/agnostic friends, but I guess they figured I’d be a more receptive audience (nope! But my default setting is to be polite when startled, which in retrospect may have given them false hope -…

Are you trying to be ironic because you seem to be proving Cecilia’s point? Also, the evidence provided is not just anecdotal. There are links to studies throughout the article that support Cecilia’s claim. You’re obviously passionate about the subject given the length of your reply, but you should not let your…

It would be comical if not for the chilling effect on women who want to play male-dominated hobbies.

It’s true, I’m not as old as those numbers, I’m 31. But lately, especially with a dying arcade scene and the only place left in my city with a working DDR machine charging a dollar for a single song and turning off all nonstop/challenge modes to make extra cash, it’s left me unpracticed and losing stamina. And man,…

That would have been sweet. If I lost, at least I could have played a fun game. That’s about all I care about anymore. I may be too old and tired and pathetic to compete these days, haha.

Thanks for the story. I can’t relate to the high profile nature, but I have never been more irate than when I had to stand up for my wife when she got accused of hacking and banned from several of our regular Battlefield servers. Instead of investigating, apparently one of the admins didn’t care. That was back when…

I’m not sure about the “Only Girl” syndrome, being a guy. Specifically, I can’t speak from experience so I won’t comment on that.

We went to an old-time movie theater in the Adirondacks a few years ago for the original Dirty Dancing movie with a local theater group acting out the key scenes in the movie. Baby was a bigger girl and the petite Johnny didn’t have the upper body strength to do “the lift” at the end....they tried several times, it…

The word for that - negging.

Maybe they should have gotten an actual dancer to play Baby.

He is literally everything the GOP claims to hate.

Sorry to veer slightly off topic, but is there a master list of trolls floating around? Two days after I had flagged and dismissed the person who told me that they hoped I got “raped to death by a gang of n*ggers with bad breath” by “Bombing of Peace”, someone named “white guilt makes you stupid” told me they wish…