Fat jokes: the last vestige of people who truly have nothing intelligent to say.

I just want Hogwarts, a History.

Agree absolutely. The best way to teach kids (and especially girls) that their bodies are *theirs* is actually to give them sovereignty over it, as early as possible and in as many ways as possible, within the bounds of your parental job to keep them safe.

I know. I do NOT get why we are deferential to a person choosing to beat his child. It is not OK to beat a spouse, even a spouse who is a horrible jerk. It is not OK to beat a co-worker or a neighbor or a store clerk, all of whom may display wretched behavior. Why is it OK to beat a kid?

This times 1000000. I am sick of reading this through some bullshit lens of sensitivity to "parenting choices." Fuck being sensitive to a parent's right to beat his kid.

If my kid is yelling "fuck you" at me there is a bigger issue than a swear word thrown at me. There is some deep disconnect, hurt, possibly hormones, and anger underneath that "fuck you" that seriously needs to be addressed before it gets worse. There would be A LOT of talking and possibly some counseling depending on…

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I'm baffled that there are different attitudes about it. Are we seriously talking about whether or not hitting your CHILD is ok? You hit an adult, you go to jail/get fined. You hit a kids? wellllll I mean....

Funny, I've had dogs in my training classes who went to bite me, and I never hit them or ever needed to hit them to make it stop.

My personal feeling is that I find perpetrating any level of physical violence against my daughter - no matter how little it hurts, it's still violence, because the violence is on the part of the person committing it and doesn't reside in its impact alone - to be inconsistent with the message I want her to receive…

No, I would not "beat" him. Beating is abuse and abuse is a crime. I wouldn't ever "beat" an adult, let alone a child.

There is a wide range of fairly serious punishment that doesn't involve beating or physical violence. If my 10 year old did that, no, I would not beat him, because I don't hit people for swearing at me. (Or, you know, at all.) But the punishment for such appalling disrespect to a parent would involve severely…

Corporal punishment doesn't even work on dogs. Why this is still a debate baffles me.

Instead of implying that there's a morally superior approach to the issue of spanking,

Soooo many people think they are goth, but in reality they are just Baroque ass fools.

At first I thought George Will paid 48K to speak, which was confusing. And even still, he hasn't spoken yet so he hasn't been paid. So it should say "George Will to be paid" blah blah blah. right?

Has Nicholas Brendon been to rehab yet? I think it's about time he got help. He's been fucked up for quite a while. He's also making me loathe Xander (he's a pretty annoying character already, Nicholas Brendon just makes him worse).

I hope she's resting peacefully in the basement of the Alamo.