I could *kinda* chalk this up as a romantic gesture gone wrong if the guy had been climbing somewhere and then proposed to his girlfriend, but Morro Rock is a bird preserve. Neither of them were supposed to be there. There are loads of pretty rocks that you’re allowed to climb and can climb safely. Shit, Malibu Creek…

The “misshapen lump of metal” is a time honored genre of university architecture:

The best bit was after Marie had been proven right beyond a shadow of a doubt her foster mother kept saying “Well, she’s still somewhat responsible for this because she wasn’t acting like I thought she should.” No, you moron, YOU are responsible for this. YOU. The person who called the police and TOLD THEM MARIE WAS…

Yeah, it made no sense to me either. That said, I was trying to google the article I read it in and all the hits are for anti-abortion people going “She was going to abort when GOD gave her twins!” or whatever so I guess it’s a thing.

I feel like there was something from Freakonomics or Predictably Irrational about how women who have abortions basically see the ultrasound and say “get that fucking thing out of me.” The only exception is when mom is carrying twins for some reason.

The worst part about this is this is not a minor conference. JP Morgan is massively important and a lot of companies do major announcements there. The invite list is small and generally you need to be very high up the reporting chain to go. Opting out would be a huge career hit for someone, so it’s not even like these…

The human connection comes after you’ve figured out that they’re not rapists or read Ayn Rand. “Online dating” STARTS online, but unless you meet in WoW or something, it doesn’t stay there.

As someone who lived through the pre and post online dating era: Thank God for online dating. I fucking hate being approached at random on the bus, at a bookstore, at the grocery store, etc. With online dating the guy at least knows that 1) I am available and 2) I am open to be contacted. There’s a layer between me…

Not “overwhelming”, around 1/20. Which is still a shitload of rapists.

But not RAPE rape according to the New York Times.

Aren’t there a lot of studies that basically say that even drinking during early pregnancy doesn’t do shit to the fetus? It’ll increase miscarriage risk, but as long as mom isn’t drinking during most of pregnancy (or LIGHTLY — emphasis on LIGHTLY drinking) it makes zero difference to baby.

That annoyed me too, especially since it sounded like she was willing to be named but Nature told her it would be unfair to her innocent male colleagues. I guess it would be a bit awkward for them for a minute, but I’ll bet that the second her name came out the name of her harasser would be known too. Generally these…

It’s the same thing with the Duggar scandal or the Subway sandwich guy. A bunch of people just *have* to fucking point out they always thought they were creepy.

Why is there always someone ready to jump in with the “I KNEW HE WAS BAD ALL ALONG!” comment whenever some rape scandal comes up? Good for you, Captain Hindsight. Maybe next time use your rapist detecting superpower BEFORE there have been a bunch of articles on how he’s a rapist.

The weirdest bit was the constant harping on how Huma was tangentially connected to Hillary and somehow that was relevant? Like does anyone watching a documentary about how Anthony Weiner completely torpedoed his political career think “Oh my, this just reflects terribly on Hillary Clinton.”