I feed organic fertilizer to my roses, does that mean I'm humanizing them too? I'm not clear on why the author seems to believe pets should be eating garbage. Non-human omnivores are not worthy of nutrition?

I didn't choose to go into CS because I saw it on TV, I went into CS because I enjoyed the puzzle solving. They told me it would be easy to find a job, I'd make good money and I'd be able to work from home. Only one of those worked out. Being the only girl in the class wasn't really a drawback though the boys treated…

That's not guilt. That's fear. Dogs don't remember things long enough to feel guilt.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you were downplaying male rape. I just think the message needs to change from "Girls shouldn't get drunk and stupid" and "Boys shouldn't rape" to "Nobody should be getting so drunk that they cannot defend themselves (or cannot make sane decisions like 'my partner is unconscious, now is…

I'm still uncomfortable with the assumption that rape is a thing that men do to women. Men may report rape significantly less often, but 1) that doesn't mean it's not happening and 2) doesn't mean that those unlucky victims have a different or easier experience.

Forget drugs, pregnancy sounds like the most dangerous thing I could do to my body.

My hubby insists he learned to walk really fast from his grandmother. However when I'm power walking to keep up with speed-boy I inevitably get some feral toddler darting in front of me, and I'm not agile enough to spin my 6' self out of the way. Not to mention that girly shoes aren't made for walking at high speed,…

All dogs go to heaven.

Depression isn't about reasons. That's sadness. They aren't the same thing.

One year anniversary of my suicide attempt was last Friday. I survived my teenage run in with depression hanging on for long enough to see the next book in the series I was reading, sometimes it is the little things that keep you going. When you are down to bribing yourself to get by day to day, it's time to get some…

The clothes weren't the worst. The loud, repetitive music was the worst. 2 hour and 15 minute loop of the crap they play in their stores at high volume all the time. The only place you could get away from the noise was the handicapped restroom. EVERYONE had ear phones.