I think this is how my least intellectually gifted cat ended up blundering around my room, banging into walls at 2 am with a tissue box stuck on his big furry head.

I'm of the opinion that all cats in hospitals and shelters should have boxes unless there's a damn good reason to take them away. When I was a student, I hunted up cardboard boxes for all my feline patients. Cats were always so much happier if they had boxes to cuddle in.

I think it's possible to give consent beforehand, and I think a lot of people will initiate sexy stuff with a person who is sleeping as a fun wake up, sometimes without discussing it beforehand (not a great idea). Though, I can't imagine thinking it's okay to attempt full-on sex without a pretty specific discussion…

I don't think it would be difficult to get hold of sulfuric acid. When I was in high school, we used it chem lab, so we had access to it. Plus, you could drain it from a battery.

Totally logical, I mean if you are going to decimate the population by rolling back policies based on germ theory, you're going to need a way higher birthrate to compensate.

I'm a little north of you but also in the southern half of the state. I know a lot of teachers and public workers who hate him, but since I'm in a part of NJ that trends redder than a lot of other areas, I sadly know a lot of others who like or liked him. I even know someone who works for him. She's an old family…

When I was in vet school, a male classmate told me to calm down after I got pissed at him for screwing me over during grand round prep. I believe the gossip was, "Shit, you missed Kallie almost castrate asshole classmate without a scalpel."

Oversimplifying- he wanted to cut the budget by not paying into pensions (though he signed a bill to do just that early in his first term) and by cutting health benefits, so he targeted public employees . Since he economy sucked (and the job growth rate in NJ is still way behind the nation), he could point to the…

He's such a hypocritical ass. He successfully demonized teachers and other public employees for having the pensions and benefits they were promised when they took the jobs and convinced everyone he was a straight-talking stand-up guy when really he's always been a bullying hypocrite. Even when he was a prosecutor, he…

I thought the same thing... twice. I really believe the national media pressure and the crazy scrutiny will cause him to flame out spectacularly, but my predictions of his political demise have been wrong before.

So, you're the other one. Sigh.

I find it incredibly tone deaf and telling that he chose to make these remarks during a time when there's been so much new coverage of the Friendship 9. It's like he has taken the rhetoric from the 50s and 60s, substituted "gay" for "black" and somehow expects everyone to congratulate him on his balanced and rational…

Yeah, they still have to put down the animal to test accurately. There is no reliable way to test a live animal for rabies. It depends on state law, but usually, they quarantine it for around 10 days to see if it will show symptoms, and during the quarantine period and then put them down. If they show consistent…

That sounds awful. Human rabies vaccines have come a pretty long way in a relatively short time. The actual vaccine is not really worse than a tetanus shot. You do have to get 4 doses. The worst part, I've heard, is the globulin they use in unvaccinated people because they inject it as close to the bite wound as they…

The cynical side of me says that one reason that they can take such a hard line is that a large percentage of the anti-vaxxers in those states are relatively poor. States with a larger population of affluent, crunchy anti-vaxxers I'd think would face a lot more pressure against instituting tighter restrictions.

Or one of the gets bitten by a wild animal, and mom decides to trust their "strong immune systems" instead of the toxic rabies vaccine which would prevent a disease that is all but 100% fatal.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. Something similar happened to me in college. I went to the doctor for strep throat. I have rampant body image issues, and at the time I weighed 124 and wore a size 4. I'm 5'5. I also have a lower belly pooch that I cannot get rid of probably short of surgery or emaciation. I had it…

Why, why must she ruin Clueless for me every time she speaks?

If the cats are anything like mine, they will wait until you are in standing twist or a down dog, and then they will decide to nap under you, and woe unto you if you try to use the piece of the mat they have claimed as their new domain.

Watch out for the snakes. They always took half my party.