Plenty of periods include embryonic tissue, as a very high percentage (30 to 50%) of fertilized eggs fail at the early implantation stage, and are flushed out with the normal period.

FUCK. THIS. GUY. RIGHT. IN. HIS. EAR.

By all means let’s wait until he actually committs the atrocities he’s promising us before we put a label on him.

I agree. However, I read an article about boundaries and teens once. And the testing the boundaries thing isn’t so much about wanting to drink, do drugs, have sex etc but about challenging authority as they naturally come into adulthood. It’s a natural process and impulse to test boundaries and authority because kids…

OR they are over the age of 35 and just can’t let a sentence go without proper punctuation because they weren’t raised that way. Cher excepted because she has the soul of a teenager I suppose.

“He’s had the entire upper third of his face worked on, and the result is he looks more like Jack Nicholson‘s Joker than Batman,” Dr. Back said.

Oh god, Mimi. I’ve never identified with you until now. Setting age sensors to “eternally oblivious.”

I will feel sorry for her if and only if she understands why she is getting the backlash. She could have been an activist, a high standing member of the NAACP, and African American studies professor, as her true white self. Instead, when she was bored with being ignored as a mediocre white woman, she cultivated an…

You’re fine. As long as you follow all the rules, you don’t have to do the extended quarantine. If you end up moving-you can print this checklist out and bring it to your vet. They’ll walk you through everything!

Why is fragile in quotes? It is fragile, and its a freakin’ big deal what the diseases un-quarantined pets could do to endemic wildlife.

Procedure is evacuation and bomb squad.

Which is NOT AT ALL to take away from the thousands upon thousands of amazing, courageous aid workers all over the world who are laboring tirelessly to make it a better place for everyone. Huge respect to all of them.

I was firmly on your side of things, and suspicious of celebrities in general, but then I was researching a story about the kids coming to the southern US border asking for asylum (I’m a reporter specializing in border and immigration work) which led me to a group called Kids in Need of Defense, or KIND, which - as it…

To me (and this is just imho); migratory workers does sound a bit like migrant workers. ‘Worker’, itself, has a closer connotation to labourer than it does to actor, celebrity, or, even, say, lawyer. I do think that had Brad Pitt said: we are migratory actors, for example, the resonance would have been quite different.

Good point. Perhaps this is true.

This is the way I used to see it before a brief stint in journalism in which I was fortunate enough to speak with many aid workers. The problem is that a celebrity will descend upon a stricken situation in order (hopefully) to draw attention to that situation. Sometimes, in this case, there is a sudden bump in aid and…

That’s what I’m getting from this. Going away to college is a tough transition for kids and their parents. And just because she’s a mom doesn’t mean she isn’t human; it’s natural that she would be struggling with her own hurt feelings at this. She should take a step back, give herself some time to acknowledge those…

I agree - this post is way over the top. Barring some dysfunctional family backstory, the adult child owes the parents polite behavior (returning calls, being nice) just as much as the parents owe the adult child polite behavior. Unless the adult child wants to break away from her parents entirely - including…

I don’t know the situation but I think you are reading a lot into this. It sounds like a frustrated mom dealing with a major transition period in the relationship. The rest is just projection. Eta: and to add, young people also have to learn to have a relationship as an adult with their parents. It’s usually a mutual…