Wow, way to go hometown!! Thanks for posting this, I will totally spread this on facebook.

Absolutely Tamora Pierce!!! Yes yes and yes again! When I finish up this semester of grad school I'm going to go back to those old friends.

"a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" even though you probably would have prefered frozen yogurt.

Nah, there may or may not have been foot stomping, hair pulling, and a semi-strangled "GAHH!!" in my school's cafeteria after dealing with the axis of brureaucratic evil that is my bank, the Canada Revenue Agency and my school's finance department screwing me over when I need to pay out-of-country tuition. And I'm…

*jaw drops* As a fellow Canadian I am compeletly taken aback by what you are saying, and to be honest offended that you are attributing the racist attitude underlying your comment to all Canadians. Can you not see the white privilge running through your commentary? I know Canada still has many issues surrounding race…

My family has a lab and she only has rudimentary training since she's a family pet. She also gets 80% of her walks at the local (very large) offleash dog park where there are deer and rabbits and ducks and geese etc. She may run around a bit until she finishes eating a scavanged wing or some such but she always stays…

In October I stood up in one of my best friend's wedding and it was inter-cultural. She's Canadian Protestant and he's Lao Buddhist. Since his family is so large they made a decision to limit the bridal party to two on each side otherwise it would have likely been in double digits too.

The Easter bunny has brown fur and wears an Edmonton Oilers jersey. (Go Oilers!) I have a distinct memory of waking up the night before Easter, sneaking out to the living room and seeing him.

I found my Dad's magazine stash once and was curious so I had a look. (I'd heard things on the playground before but had never seen it.) of course then my mom walked in and caught me! So both my Dad and I were busted....

I knew I hearted you for a reason, although its depressing that this remains true. Sometimes it just seems so much - last week I kind of felt like a killjoy in a gender dialogue for advocating for enthusiastic consent. *headdesk*

Ah, that makes more sense then! People have been whining about the way science writing is treated here on Jez, so I think that may have coloured my reading of your comment. Appologies!

That is scary... though now that I think about it it does ring a bell. Something to do with militia or something?

Thank you for your clear explaination of the difference between humanity and legal personhood. Those terms cannot be logically conflated. Well unless the forced birthers can give a convincing argument that all women in the British empire actually lacked human DNA prior to 1929 when they legally became Persons.

Not to be snarky but did you read the article? Your anecdote completely agrees with the result of the study - babies judge *behaviour.* Since your behaviour is nice the kids respond well to you regardless of your physical apperance.

My dog has a name that's on your list, though I'm not sure what book it's from (which is very weird for me since I'm a bookworm.) It's not too hard to make it work in real life.

I want to think the same as you and think that justice really fell through in this case. But I know too well that although most of the time you can tell 12 and 18 apart it's not foolproof. My best friend was mistaken for a substitute teacher in grade 7. To my mind, this means you need to be extremely cautious about…

I've had similar experiences with unknown kids who have attached themselves to me. Kids instincts can be so weird. When my brother was 3 or so, he got seperated from my Mom at Costco and instead of waiting for her to come back and find him, he hid in a clothes display "so no one would steal him." My mom was frantic…

Personally, I wouldn't even save that sort of kiss for inside, rather for 12 year olds practicing on their pillow and figuring out it doesn't work that way. Eating each other's faces off indeed.

Only the last part was him, he was the only one who didn't sweat bullets over the prospect of failing the drug test. But a bunch of them ran that risk. Sorry if it wasn't clear enough. It's pretty hard to enforce a poliy when the owner's son is flagrantly flouting it. But it's certainly a policy in place for exellent…

I've apparently been in the fridge for two weeks now and so far there is no sign of mold. I'll keep you posted though. :)