“Traffic patterns show that you’re better off driving home from a long weekend on Sunday rather than Saturday—traffic can be up to 40% worse on Saturday.” (you’ve quoted them wrong) :)

I like the idea, but the implementation is super-annoying, with the circles always moving underneath your mouse :) That is not how a superhero does things AT ALL. :)

Thanks so much for posting. Reading your post counters the despair I felt after reading Solomon’s views. signed, Not a Cow

I really hate that Galanes subtly criticizes Anonymous for facing a “mountain” of forms to change his name, but doesn’t seem to mind if women fill out all the forms for new name, drivers license, SS card, etc.

agree completely. I think I said that somewhere else (other comment threads). I had to make myself go away from this story, because my impulse was to read every comment and join every discussion, and I had so much work to do. :)

Reading through their apology, I really got the idea that they were carefully writing what they thought their town would want to hear, and then taking their days off to drink and catch up on missed tv shows. So I didn’t take the “mothers and sisters” thing at face value because I don’t believe they care at all.

the part that kills me is the raping of a drugged woman, and then both laughing about it. I note that that is not mentioned in the fauxpology

the models are already in a pool....as if the clothes want to drown themselves from shame

I always interpreted that saying as meaning “ugly on the inside”, so it still works for me. It’s obvious to me now that people meant ugly on the outside, but I’m going to stick with my way of interpreting it.

Of course she doesn’t. She’s backpedaling and rationalizing. OMG she sucks so much.

I want to like this but I feel kind of skeptical. The app leaves the heavy lifting parts of offering help to a) your friends, b) local 9-1-1 dispatcher and c) campus police. So what it’s really offering you is an automated way to report your locations/progress on your route/ to a friend, saving you the time it would…

I keep thinking that if she left a partner that she had been with for 20 years, she might not want another partner immediately; she probably wants her partner that she left behind. It’s not surprising that she hasn’t been dating in Israel.

I see what you’re saying. However, I keep thinking about whether she was persecuted, which to me is the relevant point. The committee seems to be trying to decide if the persecution was justified (using the logic that if you chose to be a lesbian, then you chose the persecution and the persecution is valid, but it’s…

The Haaretz article says that she applied in Dec 2013 ,the same month that she entered Israel (not after she was detained). I haven’t seen any other source except for Haaretz (and the many web-pubs that copied it word-for-word).

What I found really strange (from the Haaretz article) is that the asylum committee’s attorney wanted her to be able to prove “fear for her life” if she were to return to Ghana. How does one prove fear for one’s life? It seems an impossible bar to achieve.

Can you please give a link to where she lies and/or says she is mad at a guy for dumping her and/or says she doesn’t like men? The Haaretz story doesn’t say these things.

I know. The whole thing is Ridiculous. They should give her asylum, or allow her to go to some other country to try her luck elsewhere.

Yeah, I saw that. I was taking it one step further, thinking about *why* she might have been with a man in the past (a wholly irrelevant non-news item, btw): because she likes more than one gender, or was conflicted, or (any number of reasonable explanations).

Heh. When my dude and I married (first marriage for me, 2nd for him, both of us 44), he asked why I wasn’t going to take his name. I said that he was welcome to take my name. His response: “I’ve had this name for 44 years.” I pointed to myself and said, “same”. He said, “I’ve never thought about it that way.” Me: (!)

I’m sure I’m too simplistic, but it seems to me that the only relevant questions to answer are whether this woman was being persecuted, and whether Israel is willing to offer asylum to a persecuted person. The advisory committee on refugees seems hung up on the possibility that (gasp!) Amponsah might like more than…