Because I can't even touch my toes, never mind a back flip or a round-off.

I read an article that quoted another writer as saying "businesses should be judged by their products and their practices, not by their politics." (see: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/in-defense-of-eating-at-chick-fil-a/260139/) But why shouldn't we care about a business' politics? If there are…

Also an excellent point. Plus the improvements in weaponry — just imagine what the Battle of Agincourt would have been like if the British archers had been armed with AK-47s instead.

I think it's important to remember that violence against one or many people is not a new concept. Earlier this week I read about European "bog bodies" — young men and women in the paleolithic period who were murdered, possibly as ritual sacrifices, and buried in peat bogs. They can be so well preserved that local…

And don't worry, Rand Paul or Mitch McConnell are still senators.

This totally misses the point of "Having it all" — the common meaning of the phrase is that women face the burden of attempting to have children AND a successful career AND a happy marriage/relationship AND whatever else they want. By choosing to forego any part of that equation, you are, by definition, not trying to…

Yes, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_birth

Well, it's not that you have to pay the fee to be Jewish; it's to participate in the activities of the synagogue and congregation. And it's not as though they ask you to pay the first time you show up at the door; I'm currently shul-shopping, and so far I haven't been asked to cough up a penny to sit in on a service.

Full disclosure: I haven't read the article. That said, could it be a liability issue? Are doctors concerned that a patient who receives a tubal ligation could sue them later if she changes her mind and is unable to have it reversed, or to conceive after having it reversed? I'm not saying that's a GOOD reason, just a…

I think there's another socialization aspect of this — namely, that I've met plenty of men who seem perfectly happy to live in their own filth. They genuinely don't seem to care whether the toilet paper roll is on the holder or if it's sitting damply on the pee-splattered floor. My husband just laughed when I asked…

But how do they measure who crossed the line first? Is it when your foot first crosses the line, or could you throw your arm forward and have that count? Or is it when your entire body crosses the line?

"Mother Jones reports that while research had shown that giving middle and upper-class couples access to healthy marriage workshops".... did what?

I get that, but I figure it must be made up of thousands of tiny donations. That actually makes me feel even better about it — none of those people intended to give her half a million bucks, but that many people cared just a little bit. To me, being jealous of her feels a bit like being jealous of someone who won…

"Her job"? You're presuming that she had any sort of authority. We don't know what she could have done — she might not have had the official power to punish those boys at all, and doing it unofficially might have cost her her job, which I assume she needed. And barring official or unofficial options, what else would…

What I don't get is that people are apparently offended by the fund that was set up so that she could have a vacation — particularly the people who are saying "I was bullied, where's my $500,000?" I haven't donated to the fund and won't, but if that's where someone wants to send their $5 or $10, to a fund that's…

That's awesome! My current gym is more corporate, unfortunately — I would like some tiny little elderly dudes there.

This is why I liked the fitness center in my hometown — it was run by the local hospital, so it had lots of elderly people doing physical therapy. It was the least threatening environment to exercise in that you can imagine.

Try the Kaiser Family Foundation website: [www.kff.org]

Does he not like putting his face/eyes in the water? Because I totally get that.

All excellent points that also point to the absurdity of the statistic — what does it mean to die "during pregnancy or childbirth"? It doesn't say anything about the cause of death, just the point in time in which it occurred.