OK! Remind me never, never to get involved with the Italian legal system! From the insane Amanda Knox circus to this kind of shit, to all those rulings in the early 90s that women who wear jeans are asking for it, that place is about 2 centuries behind the times.

You are wrong. A convening authority (usually not the same person as the defendant's commander, btw — a CA is usually a base commander, at least) had the authority to set aside a verdict, reduce the sentence, or any many of other actions.

Yes, it's true — commanders could overturn convictions. This serves two purposes: 1) it recognizes that the military is a place different from the rest of society, where commanders need to maintain good order and discipline in order to ensure that the people they send off to war will carry out their orders and, you…

SNORT.

c.f. 28 days later, where the main female character kicks the living shit out of all the zombies and then hacks her own zombie-hunting partner apart with an axe when he gets infected. Granted, she later does take care of a younger girl, but 1) the younger girls is a teenager, not some sad-eyed little tyke and 2) the…

It's nice that she could do this so casually and that the reaction to it was fairly muted. You know what will be even nicer? When it's not news at all.

What GGB said. I work out all the time and am still overweight because I like to eat. Weight loss = 90% diet, 10% exercise. Well done.

Ditto. I liked that commercial because I have successfully used Weight Watchers in the past, and, while the program was helpful, it was not fun (though it was very satisfying to get the weight off) and it was not easy. It was hard. Watching your boyfriend eat pizza while you eat nothing at all because there are no…

Indeed!

Yes. Oh Sir Jorah.

YES. YES. YESSSSSSS.

!!! What in the fuck? That is fantastic and wonderful. Thank you for the gift of posting a picture. My life is better for having seen it.

Please. A picture.

Don't know why the above post didn't finish. And now I can't edit for some reason. Anyhoo. My dude would have told me if this was a kink he was into, because he has no problem telling me about other kinks he has. It's not. He just thought they'd be comfy and said that he would like a pair. I told him to take them back…

I considered briefly that it was a kink thing, but since my dude is 100% open about his kinks, he would have just told me if that's `w

My husband got me full-body blue snowflake footie pajamas. Somehow, despite living with me for 7 years now, he thought I would enjoy them. They are truly horrifying. He got me other, awesome presents, so it was fine, but he was genuinely confused when I said I didn't like them.

Yes. This is pretty much the reasoning of everyone I know who refuses to get the flu shot.

I hope you beat it. Good luck to you.

For Christ's sake, yes please. See, I am in the military. I am not in the Army, but I am at a joint base, so I know what their deployment schedule is. On my base, it's realistically a year on, a year off. Sure, the brass said it was shortened to 9 months a few years ago, but with spin-up and pre-deployment training,…

I read the article's title and was immediately convinced this was going to be an article about how women are more willing to get the flu shot because they are not a bunch of giant pansies about needles and they are more apt to recognize the importance of protecting themselves and their families against a potentially…