@KATE!: Yes. Yes yes yes. Children are not a drain on the rest of us. They are the people we will be depending on as we age not only to fill Social Security's coffers, but to cure more diseases, to build more roads, to make all the things we'll need in life as we grow older. Societies that do not produce new members…

@amenfro: Meh, I don't know. Basically you are subsidizing new mothers, it's true. You're doing more work while they go off and have babies and stuff. And that kind of sucks. But the alternative is, um, no new babies? Not tenable. Combine shitty or no maternity leave with a culture that makes it hard for SAHM's to go…

@Penny: Agreed. Women without kids (however acquired) don't get maternity leave. Men without kids (however acquired) don't get paternity leave. Maybe they get mental health leave, or rest and recuperation leave, or Magical Rainbow Sparkle Fairy leave. But they don't get m/paternity leave. Because the point of…

To date, the only person I know of who definitely has profited in any way from arm-wrestling is Sly Stallone.

@elembee: Likewise. I don't believe it. Neanderthals were built differently than us; their stride length and hip distance were almost certainly different, and I believe that speed estimates based on stature and stride length are wildly inaccurate anyway.

@ladyfalcon is skin deep: Is 8 am when your daily shoe delivery arrives?

@moodyonceamonth: Please, please, can you never say 'puss' ever again in reference to vaginas? I don't know, it just squicks me out.

@Jackmojo: Yeah, I'm not sure what evidence you have that hopelesspyromantic is one of those people. She (or he) has mentioned two instances of being drunk and getting ditched. Have you been drunk in a public setting more than once? I know I have. Ye gods! We both must be hopeless, leech-like drunk! Our…

One year I went as Janet Leigh in Psycho. Mind, this is best done in a warm climate, but all I did was get a blond wig, put fake blood and slash marks all over myself, and wrap up in a (larger than normal) white towel. It was a hit and cost very little to do.

@ameliabearhart: The alternative to DADT is just to leave people the fuck alone and not to freak out if your petty officer tells you he went to a movie with his boyfriend over the weekend. It does not necessarily mean spousal or partner benefits for gay couples or gay military dependents, though that would be nice.

@greeneyedfem: Yup, he could. Would that be awesome? You bet. Would it be better for Congress to do it? Damn skippy. When Congress does it, it's the Will of the People. When Obama does it by executive fiat, he's a crazy gay activist muslin kenyan terrorist et cetera, and he's foisting the gay on all good mericans,…

All the trains in Eastern Europe do this as well. You just flush out onto the tracks. Also happens in Vietnam. Never, ever walk on the tracks in most of the world!

Am I the only one rooting for her? I'm rooting for her. She just seems like a deeply unhappy person.

@squeakel: Yeah, I think the correlation is maybe wrong. It's not that poor people can't afford healthy food. It's just that poor people often don't know what to do with it. Heck, hardly anyone knows what to do with it. Wealthy people can afford a lot of healthy convenience items like pre-cut fruits and vegetables,…

This is not choice.

@BytheSea: Um. Often? My family was middle class and my mom used layaway every Christmas until I was 10 or 11.

@Casquivana: "Possum ringbearer" is the new name of my hypothetical band.

@sympathyforthebasementcat: Hearted.

@wtfox?!: YES! THIS. I thought No Face was kind of cute for most of that movie.

@applejuice: I've got about 100 Grand of giggles right here.