I'm honestly not exactly sure how appeals work (any help from legal jezzies?), but I assume when you file an appeal you probably have to file some sort of brief explaining why the case deserves to be reheard? (Seriously, I have no idea, just going off of what seems logical to me.) Maybe they don't mention the HobLobs…

Someone in another thread brought this up, but it so bears repeating. The circular logic isgoing tto make my brain explode

Thanks for pointing out the HobLob thing. I was just going to mention this. It's freakin recockulous that ND is going to try to use the precedent set in a case that was (at least according to the logic they made up for the write up) substantially ruled the way it was due to the workaround that was made for ND an…

I absolutely agree that every vote counts, I merely meant that with all the assbackward-conservative-religious folk (who tend to have better turn out in midterms anyway), we unfortunately might not get my girl Wendy in the governor's mansion. But I'm definitely pushing everyone I know to vote to at least make the race…

Lol, you didn't see me sobbing in exhausted despair last Christmas during their first multi-day sleepover. I dropped him and them off at my mother's and bolted home to scream and cry in a closet for half an hour. In fairness, I'm much better with teenagers and older kids (they are 8 and 5 now) so it'll probably get…

Yeah. Not sure exactly how we're going to work this. I don't have kids either, and I'm just starting to get used to the idea that I'm a step-mom (it's only taken 4 years lol).

That's awesome. I wish shit like that happened here. My SO has two girls with his (super christian) ex. They're still a bit young for the abortion talk, but once they hit 13 or 14 we're going to sit down with each of them and make sure they know about birth control and how it works and how it can fail and what their…

Same here. I mentioned in another comment, but this will be the first time I've voted since 2004, and the first time since I moved to Texas.

I'm voting for the first time since 2004 this year. I'm in Texas, so it might not do much, but I certainly hope we can at least give the conservatives a good "oh-shit-this-is-closer-than-we-expected" moment.

Damn! You beat me to it! I was just getting ready to chastise Massachusetts for taking a CLEARLY Florida headline.

It's a padded bra, so the padding keeps the lumpies at bay. I'm a 28A, so honestly I don't bother all that often, but most clothing is made with a certain amount of... "chesty-ness" in mind and a padded bra can really help with the fit of certain tops for me. Unfortunately, even A cups tend to run a bit large on me,…

Boob pocket is pretty amazingly handy.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The keypad doesn't have a percentage symbol on it. So I had to type out "percent." For some reason, this really bothers me.

I've mentioned this before on another article, but due to the fact that I have very small breasts and finding a bra that fits right is more or less impossible, I generally use the extra space in the bra as a pocket. It would be nice to not have to dig around in my boobs to find things though. And since I only bother…

The only thing I'll nitpick on the video games industry is this: yes, console games are generally about the same price as they used to be. That being said, I feel like more and more companies are putting out half of what an old game used to be in terms of runtime and general playability, and releasing a combination…

I think another part of it is to try to force the girl into telling at least one of her (presumably super christian anti-choice) parents about her pregnancy so they can talk her out of an abortion. There's a problem with that line of reasoning, though, as plenty of "pro-life" women get abortions for themselves and…

Only the sperm cells carrying the y-chromosome. Those can be pre-persons.

I certainly can't blame you for being done with her, and unfortunately facts and logic rarely make a positive impact on arguments based on absolutely absurd claims like that. I probably would have walked away from it, too.

In clarification of the CDC thing, a projection of possible infection rates in Africa said a possibility of a million infected by the new year if the spread continues at its current trajectory, but I believe that was the WHO.

A guy got arrested recently for stealing signs from the parks they named after and dedicated to the victims. He was taking pictures of them and using them to taunt the poor parents.