Because they can’t tell whether you look like a good driver on paper because of inherent skill at driving or because you’ve had fewer opportunities to get into an accident, and the number of drivers on the road is going up. They’re insurance. They invented statistics.

Sex Ed in the US seems to be 100% about how sex leads to disease and death.

.... but they should definitely be deciding to keep the baby without the parents’ consent.

... is this baby actually Ted Cruz?

I think a campaign that saw survivors of mass shootings walking door-to-door with a gun collection sack asking folks if they’d support them by donating their guns to be melted down could work. I mean, it probably wouldn’t get every single gun, but it would get a high proportion, probably more than gun amnesties and…

It’s a pretty mainstream view that people who get paid to have sex aren’t “legitimate” victims of rape. It’s hard enough to get rape charges to stick when the survivors are “normal” people - why do you think it would be effective for the sex workers who have allegedly been assaulted by Deen?

Fun fact: I bought my now-8.5-year-old Diva Cup at McGill Student Health.

So this seems like a good knot to tie if you’re likely to have force on either the standing or the working end of the rope, but what about if the load you’re tying down is likely to wiggle a little? Are there any knots that are resistant to load wiggling?

Don’t think that that exact thought hasn’t crossed my mind a million times in this process. Everything is so rigged in my favour.

Thanks for this. I’m in the horrible waiting period for my work authorization pursuant to a green card application, and I will remember to be timely about renewing my green card in the future, once it arrives, should I still be in this country and not back in the Frozen Wasteland to the North.

Suggested form of protest: wear a SARS mask to the office when sick. Claim to be doing it to “not get others sick.” Make your illness and your desire to not infect others visible.

People aren’t taught how to get consent, and douchebags argue that getting consent spoils the mood. Here’s my primer on getting consent in a sexy way:

THIS SHOULDN’T BE UP TO THE LARGESSE OF THE COMPANY YOU WORK FOR.

I really wish we could change the lyrics of the English version to the second verse:

OK so if we’re talking about lyrics to national anthems being fucked, I’m looking at you, homeland of mine:

I’d like to offer you that hug — I’ve enjoyed your work and I’m glad someone’s writing about the shadiness that the restaurant industry gets away with in the name of “small business ownership.” Let us know where your snarktivism winds up next, if you can!

Have a sober babysitter, or stay inside.

my thoughts exactly.

I just don’t get heterosexual marriage.

There’s something absurd about a libertarian crowing about anarchy....