I want to believe you, but politics up here are going further and further to the right these days. Harper's cronies from church are on record as waging a campaign to become more influential - have you read "The Armageddon Factor"? There is one man - Tristan Emmanuel - who has a concrete plan to get more and more…

I dunno, I might find him pretty threatening when he turns 18 next year and gains the right to vote, and thereby influence the lawes of the democratic country in which I live. Every anti-choice person who votes is a threat to women's reproductive freedom, as long as those freedoms are seen as being up for debate.

Does it count in this case, though? She is already a public figure, it's not like the only reason anyone knows who she is, is because she was assaulted. I know someone (who is a fangirl for the American news media), who has been following Logan's career for years.

Hers made her more beautiful, in a wabi-sabi way, I guess.

I'm with you. I've read all the backlash blog posts, but none of them touch the way I feel about her.

I have been a Madonna fan since I was four years old, but she is not the only female pop star to have ever had a long blonde ponytail.

My wife and I saw her in Montreal this past summer, and from our second-row catwalk spot we looked up to see her thigh-and-butt cellulite staring us in the face. We loved it; she was so beautiful in a real-person way. I tell everyone she is one of the hottest women I have seen in person. We'll have even better seats…

Thermography is better at detecting early cancers.

The other thing that horrifies me when people say that, is that it means they "got ahead" at the expense of someone who might have actually earned that benefit on their own merit. In America, opportunity is increasingly a zero-sum game; people who get things based on connections and privilege are directly contributing…

After spending the first two weeks of my life calling me "the baby", my mother was suddenly struck with inspiration and named me after Emma Goldman. I love my name. If things go in my camp's favour, some of the settlement from my mother's wrongful death lawsuit will be going to the Emma Goldman Clinic's endowment fund.

What a huge parenting fail. Raising children and parenting is about modelling and teaching acceptable behaviour, setting boundaries and having reasonable expectations. It should not be about using physical pain and humiliation to terrorize someone else into being the person you wish they were.

@DFG: I agree with this, and I said as much when Womanist Musings ranted about it. This woman survived a trauma, but she is still an adult with a responsibility to her marriage - either to re-negotiate it or to end it. He was calling her out on ignoring it.

@Jen Chappell: Maybe it has less to do with her being his wife, and more with Burton's predisposition to work with the same actors over and over again. He gives Depp a lot of work, too.

@stellalukin: Firstly, how do you know how she knew to do that? Maybe the medical professional who referred her to the clinic suggested it. My mother worked at a women's health centre and they would share tips like that freely, no need to be a veteran. Secondly, what difference does it make how many abortions a woman…

@Almost Like Loving: It's a false dichotomy; the only options are not to flatly condemn Koch or flatly condone Koch.

@Almost Like Loving: Just because a shelter exists, doesn't mean it can take someone in.

@iamthelaw: Her child was at risk for as long as they were living in that state of poverty and instability. Unless the State was about to step in with steady shelter or a big fat cheque to cover living expenses, it looks like their options were to live with this man, or on the street. I suppose Koch could have…

@Dancingfrog: The problem is, we don't live in a sex-positive culture. these stories aren't about individual choices, they're about a culture war. The anti-sex crowd is losing the battle of hearts (private life) but winning the battle of minds (public policy). Results like these serve to bolster the evidence for harm…

@scootermom: I agree, but I also think that this is the flip side of male privilege - male approval is at a premium in our society. When we put an unnatural and unwarranted high value on the desires of men and the value of male attention, people are that much more likely to resort to extremes to achieve it. The…

My adopted hometown is magic. It was one of the first cities established in my country; it is beautiful and cultured and filled with art and nature and industry. The people who love it here; REALLY love it. It has also been the site of some of the most horrifying shootings in my country's history. The memorial to the…