As a fellow smart-mouth kid I applaud your use of superior reading skills in crushing the dreams of the less proficient. Who knew Hooked-On-Phonics would make you smart and an asshole?!

I used to but now I just ask "what was it that made you think that?" and let the question hang in the air so they can see the absurdity of clumping us all together. I remember the first time I did it with these old guys. I was bartending/serving was chatting it up with a black family at one of my tables. When I went…

Yep. That's the type of shit that I get more often then not. Once time, I was on campus eating tacos and some woman set down next to me, started talking and mentioned something about black people in the south being nice. I have no idea how the conversation started and moved to that because I was blowing her off (the…

This is very true! A popular kid at my high school got accused of rape by three different girls. I don't know what happened with that and I certainly didn't bully him, but as a teen girl myself, I stayed away for my own safety. The general consensus was "he's popular-clearly this is a conspiracy because he's popular…

I was gonna go with nopenopenope@nope.com

She didn't test positive for methamphetamine, she tested positive for l-methamphetamine (levomethamphetamine), which is a nasal decongestant.

Yeah no they don't have the policy for girls too: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/8th-…

I know that fiction is fiction and doesn't correlate directly to real life BUT I thought Jane Campion's "Top of the Lake" series was a very sobering portrayal of the horrific rape culture in a small NZ town.

Can we please applaud 3 News for being the kind of program that does good and helps society? These boys and the police are in hot water because of their investigation. More of this please.

I still can't really wrap my head around the fact that men aren't expected to be able to control themselves around a skirt and yet it's women who shouldn't be trusted with nuclear codes because of periods.

If the insurance company denied it there's a good chance that you're not responsible but the hospital/medical group made an error/are trying to pull one over on you. Make sure you get an EOB from the insurance company, not the office. It will say if you're responsible or not. Good luck!

think of it as being the sacrificial lamb for all the other people who didn't know what an MP was but now know just by looking at comments.

Child rape laws are written to take into account age differences between offenders and victims. If the age of consent is 16 and a group of 15-year-old boys engage in sexual activity with a 4-year-old child, that act is called rape. Even though all parties are under the age of consent. Yes! Shocking, innit! And if a…

I think we have to keep in mind with the "slut shaming" thing is that Sinead herself clearly feels as though she was prostituted/used by the music industry - and would have been moreso if she didn't fight for herself. There's a difference between choosing to work in the sex trade and being coerced into it, and I think…

The problem with Amanda Palmer's letter is that it's Amanda Palmer thinking that Miley Cyrus has the same worldview - and control over her image and career - that Amanda Palmer has. I just don't see that as the case. Miley is packaged that way lock stock and barrel, while Amanda Palmer - as grating and self centered…

+1 to your ETA. I think there was some problematic wording in that first letter, but a lot of people calling it slut-shaming haven't actually read it and are taking it on faith that if enough commenters call it that, it must've been.

While you may see it as slut-shaming, it definitely wasn't intended to be such, and as a super anti-slut-shaming feminist, I do not think that it is meant to shame Miley for being a promiscuous girl. She's a lady who was exposed to such Hollywood leeches who manipulated her and made use of her appearance to make…

It is was she said. She just said it obliquely, tactfully, & without anger. She framed it as a missive of advice & guidance to a mentee she believes may be heading down a potentially damaging path. So calling it patronizing & problematic in areas is fair. Calling it an irrelevant & craven publicity stunt is not.

$5 says Moiley (typo and it stays) rips up a picture of Sinead at the end of her "performance" on Saturday Night Live. Who's with me?

Small sample sizes are sometimes all you can afford, and purely statistical error can be mathematically assessed. At the very least small samples can sometimes identify trends that might bear further study.