Most of us can get away with not apologizing for our past because so few of the people around us know about it. I have lived in my current state less than 10 years. I sure as hell have not told about many of the things I have done which I would never, ever consider doing today (no felonies or anything, but I've been a…

In fairness, plenty of conservatives hate Newt for this reason.

"I'm recommending that anyone reading this ... go to the proper authorities and let them take action"

As a non-lawyer, I believe it was the idea of "if you have more than X amount, you must be using it for business purposes." It is sort of like if you have beyond a certain amount of drugs then you must be a dealer.

You have such contempt for others. The most common reason for single parenthood is divorce. It may be a plurality now since other causes were growing, but it was the majority reason by a more than 2 to 1 margin in the mid 1990's. Do the "horrible choices" you are referring to include getting a divorce? What about a…

I watched the video to learn how to pronounce that last name. Congratulations!

"The way we learn history, things are always improving or getting better"

We all have contradictory expectations placed on us, but it is easier for men. We are all expected to be nice, but to not let others take advantage of our niceness, for example. We have to find a middle ground. For men, the middle ground is often so broad it takes effort to step out of bounds. Really nice guys and…

That did not occur to me even though I have an extremely dirty sense of humor. Washing the mouth with soap is an old trope. I see no reason to assume anything different.

I call Poe's Law. Poe's Law is that extremism is so outlandish that on the internet (or in any writing) it become difficult to distinguish between a parody of extremism and actual extremism.

Gawker, IO9, Jezebel, Roygbiv, etc. are infotainment. There is some actual journalism, but it is mostly read a story and restate it in a more entertaining manner. However, they gave you all you need to track down this information. Copy/paste Schoolcraft County, Michigan into Google.

Schoolcraft county is in Michigan's upper penninsula. Its population is under 8500 people. She is the head of a party in a district of a county of under 8500 people. This is a letter from nobody.

The prosecutor had a confession from the perp, statements from the victim and the testimony of other witnesses. However, after the victim's suicide, he decided not to go to trial and entered a deferred prosecution agreement. Then, when Rambold failed to fulfill the terms, the prosecutor sought to send Rambold to…

Good.

My answer to anyone complaining to how people react to their "look" is "how seriously do you want people to take you?" I often don't care, so I will show up in a torn t-shirt, but I recognize I have no right to complain if people act dismissively after glancing at me. Not that I feel like complaining because if I show…

You are seeing something in the PSA that is not there. Try not to find the worst possible interpretation that you can imagine.

I think it is perfectly appropriate. The fact is that, while people of all ages and both sexes are sexually assaulted, sexual assault is overwhelmingly targeted at females ages 11-30. Based on survey data I saw, there are about 8-9 females victims age 11-30 sexually assaulted by a man (or boy) for every other sexual…

No, politicizing this would not be "awesome." It might slow down helpful reforms and obfuscate facts.

There are papers showing effects of mixed sex cages near each other v. sex-segregated cages. For example, male hamsters housed in proximity to female hamsters showed opposite weigh gain effects in response to short photoperiod (PMID 12888484).

They used many kinds of pain measurement and all showed the same effect. However, the results described here were the experiments specifically designed to measure this. The other experiments using measurements such as withdraw reflex or toe curling were retrospective studies* where the animals had exposure to various…