@LaComtesse: A friend of mine did the same thing and raves about it. We live in Canada so it made a lot of sense. She married in the summer, spent a couple days in winery country a couple hours from home and then took her honeymoon in the carribean during the bitterest part of winter.

@LazyHippo: And here I was hoping that those of us who aren't challenged by our jobs, but had a life outside it had a chance. *snaps* Darn...

I warned you that I was boycotting dog side voting after you kicked out my beloved retrievers. Plus corgi certainly doesn't congure up mental images of this.

@Cinnamoncanuck: I think you may have hit the nail on the head. Many people don't have a good understanding of the depth of these conflicts.

Oh gag me with a spoon! It always works out so well that these idiots set up men as both slavering idiots with no self-control or real respect for women but at the same time the ultimate arbiter of how to control everyone through proclamations on how not to have men lose self control over (feminine) you. Because the…

I really hope that it's actually her they spoke to. I'm keeping her in my thoughts.

@Kivrin: I always feel a bit disoriented when I hear these stories since my mental image of police offices centres around Staff Seargent Gary Goulet of Cops for Cancer. He heard from his sister that her neighbour's child was being bullied in kindergarten because he was bald from chemo. He rounded up several officers…

When I went to work after university I was terrified that I'd be taken aside one day and asked why I don't wear makeup. Three years later and back to grad school in the fall and it never happened.

*slack jawed* I just don't get it. NO retrievers in the finals, period?

@heygirlheyyy: Congrats on keeping your cool. I probably would have caused a scene and demaded to speak to his superior, taken his badge number etc.

There's a reason most service dogs are retrievers. They're so smart and loyal!

@aseek: It makes me want to stand outside the legislature and yell randomly: "Aorta! Femur! Esophagus! Prostate gland! Ulna! Coccyx!"

@najmah: I love child-najmah to pieces! That's awesome!

@metaphorsbewithyou: You must have been good. The moment saxylady said Marineland that earworm of a jingle jumped right into my head.

It's amazing how different they can look depending on angle. The colour change is fairly dramatic but even the look. If I didn't know better I'd say the third picture looks more like a boar than a wolf.

Is it not the children with ADHD or behaiour disorders that tend to get punished the most? I really think that corporal punishment is really counterproductive with these kids.

@smoakes: I was advocating for the first option. Pregnancy and breastfeeding is already a period where society feels it has public ownership over a woman's body that I think it's important to draw a line between mother's choices for her own body and the child's right to proper nutrition. One should not be subsumed…

I'm worried about how this is going to play out. There's a clear bodily autonomy line in this case that I can already see the pearl graspers leaping over.