Wasn't half the point of this movie that the movie industry had all this hot shit new effects technology, and were therefore able to splice Tom Hanks into history (as well as splice off Lt. Dans legs?)

This may be because the kid is too young to reason with, so the Mom is actually doing it right: ignoring the hitting and ensuring he isn't rewarded/reinforced for hitting her.

I'm kind of insulted on behalf of my husband here - "beta" has connotations of subservience and weakness, and being Not A Total Dick needs a better label than "beta".

If McDs pays their workers fairly, I will...no, I still would t be able to eat there. Sorry.

There is a great deal of recent research on the importance of "gut bacteria", and the symbiotic relationship that we have with the millions of little creatures that break down food into a nutritional form we can use. Unfortunately, I do not believe that this science is at a point where it can be used as a rationale…

I went to Bats Day every year when I lived in SoCal, which is when thousands of goths descend upon Disneyland. There's a legend that one year, a family claimed that the satanists had RUINED THEIR VACATION, and wanted a refund. Disneyland offered a ticket refund. But no, the family was SO TRAUMATIZED that they…

Bring you & your son over to B-P USA (the Baden Powell Service Association). I'm desperately short on assistant den leaders.

Can we focus on how PERFECT the cover of "Cities in Dust" was?

I have to say, she had really adorable dimples at the last episode, and now, those dimples are deep laugh lines.

I listen to CBC3, which automatically makes me cool six months later when the bands from the R3-30 become popular in the States. (Grimes, anyone?)

I'm Canadian, so I make a habit of being polite. It gets a shocking amount done when you are respectful and polite to everyone. People are much more motivated to work for or with someone who is genuinely kind.

I use McD's for bathrooms on road trips. I know they're disgusting in cities, but the bathrooms in the exurbs are often franchise-standard clean.

Cooking shows are the best for children (no sarcasm). My kid eats way more vegetables after watching Top Chef. Granted, I was lucky he didn't register and repeat the gratuitous use of "suck my dick" by Nina in two consecutive episodes, but that's because he is actually focused on the cooking. I think food shows…

Technically, Mary doesn't inherit anything as first born because, y'know, vagina. In fact, that was the whole show premise: Matthew was a 3rd cousin who was recruited to be the heir after the first cousin Mary was engaged to dies.

I am most disappointed at Monster High, to be honest. I liked the concept of individual monsters being portrayed as socially accepted high school girls. It's unfortunate they were all given identical bodies that indicate eating disorders. (Maybe the vampire is just skinny because she doesn't like drinking blood?)

Wellingtons parents are clearly killing it. One kid asked for a dragon (and only a dragon) and his sister asked for a science kit so she could make her own cosmetics. Both those requests are awesome.

I was going to write a very similar post to this before I noticed that it was already written. Applause.

This explains why Facebook claim they don't gave resources to shut down revenge porn and child porn groups. They are too busy shutting down individuals who anger the Internet and taking down pictures of breast feeding mothers and/or breast cancer survivors.

This was my five year old son's favourite show for the entire duration of its run. I don't know why more parents haven't caught onto this. Advantages:

My last two boyfriends started off as unemployed science nerds (Such a thing exists. This is how horrible America is at innovation: we can't even provide R&D jobs to nerds fresh out of college).