It's really weird to post ambiguous complaints about your brother in law in response to an article about Hilary Clinton and Sotomayor and then argue with someone for not fully understanding your position about your brother in law when you never really explained it in the first place...

Yeah, it's one thing to say 'pitbull' to give specifics, but usually people go more generic for things in the title that aren't the emphasis. The emphasis was on what assholes the people at KFC were, not the breed of dog. It was a dog attack by 3 pitbulls (they probably could have added more info there about where the…

It's, as Yoga Nerd MD suggested, more that if it's any breed other than a pit bull, generally you have to do a bit of rooting to find "oh, this is about a labrador" or whatever. Pit bulls are always immediately name-checked, which is a problem to people because many of us feel they are unfairly maligned as a breed. So…

What about the dog attack thwarted by a cat the other week? Notice the breed wasn't mentioned THERE?

Pit bulls were not "literally bred" to kill. They were bred to be nanny dogs and then became rescue dogs in World War II. German Shepards were the "bad dogs" in the 80's and 90's and now they're police dogs, so. Yeah. Blame the dog fighting rings that train the dogs and perpetuate the culture.

I mostly agree with you, but I would point out that your statistic indicating that pits "have the worst record of any kind" is incredibly misleading. First, many breeds are mis-identified as pit bulls. These include, but are not limited to, American Bulldogs, Boxers, Presa Canarios, Dogo Argentinos, and in some cases…

Labradors bite more people each year. It's only that the pit bull gets the media coverage.

I've seen this behavior in labs too "the friendly family dog breed." I'm a pediatrician and I stitch up kids from dog bites all the time - let me tell you, ERs aren't full of pit bull attacks - its all over the board. DOGS that aren't raised and trained and socialized properly will do this.

You do realize that your German Shepherd is still classified as a "dangerous breed" by many, yes? That German Shepherd were once feared and reviled as pit bull type dogs are now, and still are feared and deemed "dangerous" by many?

It does absolutely account for it. You just mussed the point.

It is NOT that simple, and insisting that it is is downright dangerous and does the breed zero favors. Pitbulls as a breed are dog aggressive...you can train and socialize your dog, never say a mean word to him, and STILL have a dangerously dog aggressive pit. Any owner of a pit has to accept and understand that…

You are right. All animals over 6 pounds should be banned.

So could any big dog. WTF is your point?

A bit off topic, but sometimes I feel a little bad for companies that end up embroiled in something that's clearly not their fault. Some empathy-challenged teen makes a fucking godawful remark, and now KFC has to do damage control, which they are doing a pretty good job with. Not that I ever feel too bad for evil…

Well we are equally sick of people like you who misplace your blame.

I don't understand why there was even a petition. LITERALLY THEY EXPLAIN IT AT THE BREWERY. You can even go on paid tours to see all the brewery action up close and personal and I think ask one of their brewmasters questions.

Though I don't know why rice is in there... I know there is a reason, and it has to do with…

You should try out Deadspin for a while. Cardinals hate, so hot right now.

NOPE. Skip the beer entirely and just drink Missouri wine.

I don't drink Bud or Bud Light, but I am from St. Louis & it's actually a pretty cool town. Skip the Buweiser brewery tour & head straight to the Schlafly Bottleworks though, they make actual beer there :)

"FoodBabe.com" gave me a big old eyeroll - I typically find all of those "Xbabe" or "Xchick" or "Xgirl" sites to be intolerable. But then I thought, "self, stop being a jerk - it is probably a useful site and not at all smug and self-congratulatory." I am writing to report that I shouldn't have second-guessed…