i don't know, i think i still buy it. father's name, husband's name, they ARE all men's names. and of course you can own it and you've lived with it forever, but lots of women who took their husbands names and have been long-married can do the same thing. should one be more legitimate than another because you had…

Catholicism isn't passed along just by birth, and definitely not by only the father's side. A child can be baptized in the Catholic Church if either parent is a practicing Catholic. Once the child reaches past the age of 7 or so, they're at the "age of reason" and can make the decision to convert for themselves…

Fifteen years ago last month American Airlines 1420 crashed in Little Rock. I was one of the 134 that survived. The captain along with ten passengers died. We left Dallas Fort Worth airport in an MD-82 around 8:30pm. I had just started a new job fresh out of college and was scheduled to meet a client in Bryant,…

I really hope the NLRB rules against McDonald's on this one. I've got nothing against McDonald's personally, but the franchise system for fast food restaurants is a joke - as you pointed out, the parent corporations control everything. In fact, they pretty much control everything except the costs of labor, which is…

any future offspring may well get my last name to prove I can.

Can I just say how much I hate the people who run in when we complain about something like McD's or Subway, crying "But it's a franchise!"

I made no mention of the Ukraine crash here, because it's completely unrelated... I'm not sure what you're talking about?

This has "something Lord Byron started for lulz" all over it. "Yes, my limp, it's very fashionable. You mean you DON'T have one?"

While I can understand your point, I'm sure looters rifling through and stealing the possessions of their loved ones is really just adding insult to injury for the family members of the victims. On top of worrying about whether the people who shot down the plane will be brought to justice, whether the investigators…

When I pitched this to Jessica, I wrote her a message that said "Hey, would you be into knotting?"

" Our sex life HAS tapered in the last few months, but isn't that allowed? We are adults leading busy, stressful lives. I cook for him, I do his laundry, I keep our house clean and tidy. It's not like our sex life was going to be this way FOREVER, it was a temporary slow-down due to extenuating circumstances.".

What…

Great point!

So concerned that he couldn't just be an adult and have a conversation about it?

Not necessarily. A lot of married couples don't have sex as frequently as the husband would like. Sometimes work/kids/house/life get in the way.

Although someone did point out that (according to the reddit thread) they're only 26, so you may be on to something.

No one who writes Knotting fan fic gets an extra hour in the ball pit. No one.

My semi-hidden obsession with fanfic has actually overtaken my not-at-all-hidden obsession with, you know, actual books. A fact I am somewhat ashamed of.

That's actually exactly how it's supposed to work. Exposed to the same classes and roughly the same opportunities, you weren't in the top ten percent at your high school (no shade, I was top 12% at my 5A Texas high school, I went out of state and am doing just fine in life for not being top 10). That rural…

THIS. I've read a few different articles on this, and almost all the comments begin 'Well, my parents would be in jail because..."

I find it incredibly interesting that throughout all of this, she's consistently failed to mention that UT-Austin didn't reject her outright. They offered her a chance to attend one of its system campuses (UT-Dallas was floated as the best option), earn at least a 3.2 GPA during her freshman year (she maintained a…

Thanks for including the map. For me it really helps put it in perspective. Yesterday, I was reading 1.5 miles and pictured the little girl having to walk that far along busy streets to get to her mom if need be. This map shows that it was not that situation at all.