They knew about his abuse before they were married. So they prevented her from making a fully-informed choice about getting married and having children with a pedophile. Pretty sure they owe her and her children a lot.

Yeah, this. I’m totally okay with burning our heroes (not to say C.K. is, but he is certainly larger-than-life), and this one I am on the fence about. None of the blind items are obviously referring to C.K. in the manner in which this article implies that they are, the one comedian who talked about the incident denies…

I know my local zoo has had a very successful program for gorillas and gibbons, but I think overall that primates do not take well to long stretches of captivity, which is very sad.

NPR recently covered this story about baboons (not in zoos), which was also covered in 2004, which is kind of cool!

Yeah, that’s the problem I had with SD cards as well. It’s useful for storing pictures on your phone, as well as a copy of your contacts (which I recommend doing as a back-up for when you switch phones!) but not much else.

“Flirting with other women” is not the situation. He was communicating with an old flame using secret accounts for FIVE YEARS. That is an emotional relationship, and if that’s what both partners would characterize as cheating (from the letter, that appears to be the case) then it is cheating.

Really? I found the Gunslinger to be the worst of the series. I very much enjoyed books 3 and 4.

He had a character in the Dark Tower books literally hinge the entire plot on his personal revulsion to abortion and I always found that to be the stupidest plot device (SPOILER and context: A Catholic priest prevented one of the main characters from aborting what had about a 95% chance of being a DEMON BABY by…

The space turtle is a reference to the Steven King extended Universe that the Dark Tower books hold together. So yeah, I can see how it would be weird out of context...

If it makes you feel any better, zoos are basically the reason why we still have genetic diversity in giraffe populations. The AZA has been running the foremost breeding program to diversify the species, and are very responsible about how they go about it. Just confirm that your zoo is AZA-compliant before you give…

jizz receptacles

I recommend waiting for Black Friday and then switching plans. A lot of times they offer $200+ incentives if you are switching from on service-provider to another, and occasionally will throw a new phone in for good measure. You have to be sure you’re reading ALL the fine print and following-up to make sure the…

This is hearsay, so that’s fair. She did swear something dropped on the floor and then they put it back into her. Maybe it was something else?

Agreed.

Anne Rice went through a mid-life crisis where she got super religious, and recently has backed off a bit and announced that although she is still personally religious, she is no longer a member of any church and was very disillusioned about the institution of Christianity.

But Lucas was also the creator of the world, which is why he even had a leg to stand on there...

I mean, they did... Just not by each other.

Very pro-CS person here, but my friend who is a nurse said that during training she and her class were witnessing a C-Section where the doctor literally dropped the mother’s intestines on the ground while pulling the baby out and had to coil them back into her stomach cavity.

Sooooo, yeaaaahhhh. That happens…

Yup.

Ah, yes, thank you anecdotal evidence! I don’t know what we would have done without you! (Hot take: actually listened to the science, which says that either way, 30% of women experience postpartum pelvic and vaginal pain YEARS later)

Emergency C-sections can be and often are traumatic. Vaginal births can be and often…

You mean there are people in the world who don’t have to repeatedly restart their phone and uninstall Words With Friends because there’s not sufficient space for the phone to function?

*sigh* What luxury.