There isn't any evidence of psychotic breaks in cats like we see in humans, although cats do have "complex internal lives". Most likely it was provocation that the owners didn't notice, but hyperthyroidism, stroke, seizure, tumors and even dental pain can cause behavior like this. Redirected aggression, where…

Above all, and counted in the preceding list, psychological problems (very much including basic laziness) cause people to be unemployed

Sex is only for those rich enough to afford it.

I hadn't intended to make a directional statement, just a statement of statistical history. Access to increasingly lethal weaponry has more to do with advances in technology than changes in legislation, in my opinion.

Probably because there are fewer incidences of violence overall. More recent instances tend to have higher injury and death counts due to access to more effective and efficient weapons. So thinking of the weapons rather than the motivation is reasonable.

I think you may be confusing feminism with conservatism.

Making his mother feel ashamed for having a good time? Ageism and sexism in one charming package of a human

Actually, honey is food for adult bees. Baby bees eat pollen because the need the protein. Bees overproduce honey in order to account for predators and bad winters, humans protect them against predators and bad winters in return for the extra honey (at least when the pact is working well).

My joy is your fiscal obligation.

I really expected to be confronted over my wedding guest choices. My family is usually in the midst of some complicated inter-sibling feuds and my husbands family is enormous. In the end, it wasn't that bad. The few people who asked just got "I didn't want to inflict my family / his family / our families on you."

My sister-in-law was a bit freaked that her only responsibility was to show up in a black dress and stand next to me — my previous bridesmaid experience in her wedding was a bit more involved. I finally had to have my mother convince her that there really wasn't anything else she was supposed to be doing.

Someone being treated for health issues is usually considered to be experiencing fewer symptoms of the illness than someone untreated. Unless it's a mental health issue, then suddenly it's the driving force of every decision treated or not. No wonder so many people won't seek treatment.

I was thinking that, but I'm not sure what you could actually do. Expulsion? Criminal charges?

Say it was pretending to kill people (without their consent) in a video. You could put together a film of one person running around with a weapon and another unknowing pretty easily. You then put that video online and call it funny.

To be fair, my sister is a foodie and her wedding included gourmet fare with layers of locally produced greens and delicately drawn lines of sauce. Gorgeous to look at and really tasty, probably the best food I've ever had at a wedding. It was certainly a centerpiece of the evening, which makes sense because it was…

In my family: cake, alcohol and dance music. The other food is just so you don't pass out while dancing.

Ugh, that's the worst part of the wedding. It's really a sequence of events that all need to be coordinated and planned. Wedding Shower(s), Bachelorette parties, Bachelor parties, Rehearsal Dinner, Wedding (possibly split between church and dinner), then morning-after-brunch. Ugh.

My food budget was about $12 per person for 50 people, so saving $10 per person would have induced me to spend more money on cake and alcohol.

You can elope and dangle a "proper wedding" infinitely far in the future to appease family.

And make sure you own the resulting pictures — the official legal rights. I had a lot of people come into the bakery where I worked wanting their wedding pictures on anniversary cakes and we couldn't do it because they didn't get a release from the photographer. These days when formats change so fast, its a good idea…