The existence of a animal, even one that thrives in urban environments, is not really sufficient reason to kill it. Sure they are opportunistic, highly intelligent, and amaxingly adaptable. In addition to small mammals and aquatic life, they also eat lots of insects - like cockroaches. Raccoons are also excellent…

A group of raccoons is a gaze or a nursery. I understand that being chased by a nursery of raccoons is rather less impactful.

I think it’s because, in the US at least, math is taught in the most boring and unintelligible way possible. All memorization, deeply formalized, and nothing about what all that memorization prepares you for.

I thought honor killings were basically hate crimes committed by family members.

He seemed pretty positive about Sadam Hussain. Oh, he’s totally a fan of Vladimir Putin.

The only reassuring bit is that Trump doesn’t seem to like Pence. That’s almost its own recommendation.

I think it’s kind of impressive actually. She’s distilled a complex argument about medical ethics and copyright law into a single statement: this feels wrong, think about it. It doesn’t really matter if the technology exists yet, or even if she actually goes through with it. The statement is already made.

There’s some deeply patriarchal shit behind ‘you have devalued her honor so now you must provide for her’. Like the diet version of making rape victims marry their attackers.

Blood (blood meal) does make a good additive for plants - lots of iron, and may scare away deer and rabbits. $5 at the nursery for a bag seems way the hell easier than sitting naked under your blue hydrangea for a few days every month.

Vegetable broth is a thing, mostly defined by the complete lack of meat, bones, or other animal products.

Charging a premium to crime victims for evidence collection, and then ignoring that collected evidence, seems like something that dirty cops in a mob movie would do.

Hubby and I had more conflict over picking a first dance song than any other aspect of the wedding. He wanted “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed from Trainspotting. I wanted “Love song for a vampire” by Annie Lennox from Dracula. We ended up with “Only you” by the Flying Pickets, I think mostly because it was cute and had no…

If he's proved to be a serial rapist, regardless of his age, does that open the way to hold accountable all the people who enabled and covered for him? That is what would make a real difference, IMO.

And her allergies are located in her vagina? There's no defense regardless.

I admire your restraint in not kidnapping that daughter and getting her vaccinated. Illegal? Sure. But if a vaccine that stops cancer. Stops. Cancer.

I wonder how this is going to play out in the election. Hard for Hillary to not follow the same protocol but I live in a college centric city in a swing state and not visiting it is political suicide.

How is one supposed to anticipate whether a medical situation might cause TSA agents to lose it? Partially blind and deaf wouldn’t have occurred to me as a problem - certainly not given she was traveling with someone else who could help her.

My mom does this now, actually. She’s the backup emergency contact for the three nearest houses with kids (plus a few more, I think, not sure). Mostly it’s smoothing over scheduling difficulties - to pick someone up from school or practice, get a meal started so that dinner happens on time, somewhere to park the sick…

Carrying clothes between floors is theft, and carrying previously purchased items with receipt around the store is also theft. I think they’ve made it illegal to shop at Macy's.

Or he was trying to make sure she only targeted him.