Excellent point, because in that novel/movie, Tracy Flick is a "mature", focused, super-responsible teen. She's seen as a kind of little grown up mascot and praised for her adult-seeming poise.

I didn't do it alone. ;)

You assembled an entire human being from molecules! I'll never be able to do that...

Agreed. This was a biology class, the students are teenagers not little kids, they were allowed to excuse themselves from the class, and the teacher raises animals for consumption so he probably knew what he was doing. Maybe the result was some students decided they didn't want to eat meat any longer, maybe some…

I made dis! :) Everything went perfectly. She is 7 pounds and 10 ounces of screaming, shitting, snotting awesomeness! Also, I love Percocet.

Speaking of interesting butts...

I've been a lurking lurker who knows you're a regular commenter, & I'm curious to know if the majority of Jezebel commenters are from the NYC area. I ask because there are always tons of remarks of disbelief regarding the possibility of the existence of the Kim K. body type in nature (I've also seen the same…

Jaded's the wrong word. They just don't give a fuck, don't want to make the slightest effort, and are willing to lie to make sure they don't have to. If this article was in a local paper, they would be royally pissed.

This is really heartbreaking.

Yup! The PO usually gets a kick out of the peepers. Who can resist a fluffy chick?

My father is a Post Master so before everyone loses their minds - it is perfectly safe to send chicks in the mail (you can send crickets, too- the Science Museum in Boston gets them by the gross). They go overnight and all is well. You can't just slap a stamp on them and put them in mailbox. Although, people put the…

There are people who will mail order chicks to raise either for pets or farming purposes.

What a fucking dick. Also, I keep chickens as pets, and I often get them through the mail; when the chicks arrive, the postmaster calls and I pick them up. So fuck that petition.

It's not about protecting you from getting hit by cars. It's so that if a car drives by and splashes you, the man bears the brunt of the gross muddy street water.

I'm hardly an expert, but over the years I've learned to use Photoshop moderately well through lots of practice (mostly because I just wanted to see how these things work). Anyway, my point is that someone who probably is an expert is going to be able to come in and explain this actually properly, but for now:

Happens to me all the time!

$200 a month? How droll. My cat cost me around 25% of my household's take-home income during the last month of his life. Then again, I wouldn't look down on anybody who would choose not to sacrifice so much... I just had a bit of the crazies at that point (which I still don't regret).

I've worked with animals my whole career and this is what I tell people who are struggling with whether to put an animal to sleep: It's a gift to offer euthanasia to our pets when they are suffering or have a poor quality of life. Pets are not capable of understanding why they are in pain, or why they must undergo a…

My mom has always erred on the side of putting a pet down too soon (vs. too late) because she is terrified of allowing her pets to linger in pain. She also believes that pets tend to hide pain from us for as long as possible (because an animal will instinctively hide signs of weakness, to protect itself from…

It's a hard decision for sure. We had a cat a few years ago we put down (she was ~17 years old; an exact age is hard as she was a stray) who was half-blind; no teeth; no control of bowel movements; couldn't groom herself; etc. We had to keep her in an isolated part of the house for a few months before we finally…