As I’ve aged, I’ve come to realize that sports is entertainment. In my youth I was all for the tribal belonging that being a sports fan entails and when you’re a kid it doesn’t matter that the Giants are horrible and Candlestick Park is miserable stadium. It doesn’t matter that Joe Barry Carol isn’t good or that…

Just seems like a non-issue to me. Kids wanted signs, parents made lame signs, kids had a blast hoisting their lame signs. Everybody wins.

Yes, let’s chastise the children for not proffering witty, relevant, original memes because children are human and should be judged as harshly as all humans deserve to be judged on the world wide web.

I think the sickness is the sexual assault itself. The taping is secondary, though the taping does give credence to the oft heard claim that much rape is about power - filming an assault is an extra level of shaming and power display.

Why exactly should a member of this community stfu when other members of the community are expressing themselves?
This article does a poor job of explaining the situation. In years past the day of absence was celebrated by campus POC voluntarily not showing up. This year students suggested that white folk not come to…

Can’t disagree with that.

Are you saying that people who commit acts of terror in the name of Allah are not actual terrorists?
I agree that the fear mongering right do foment terror of the other and don’t give racist violence the coverage it deserves. That said, words are different than actions.

reference to when your own balls try to burrow back into your body like baby kangaroos.

A quick unsolicited defense of the GS Warriors: This is a team that was the essence of futility for DECADES. We drafted drug addicts, traded away Parrish and the draft pick that became Kevin McHale, had a cute time w/ RUN TMC who were awesome to watch but never had a devil’s dong of a chance to win (see: Lakers),…

Combine this little bookstore anecdote with the fact that Cheney drummed up our nation to start a war on false pretense that killed millions and that his former employer made billions on that war and Cheney is a wealthier man today that he was before we invaded Iraq and I’d say that’s enough to evidence to call him an…

The Darwin Awards are chalk full of coulda woulda shoulda Badasses

Having read the article and perused the comments it seems the key question here is whether overt verbal racism (particularly as it is applied with the use of the N-word) is equally objectionable to physical assault. More simply, are emotional violence and physical violence equivalent? It’s a fascinating question and…

Mentioned Bay Area simply to give context of where my experiences with fostering and shelters took place.
Stories like the one you shared are indeed proof that rescue orgs can be a bit over the top. But I assume your friends were still able to get a cat from another org or shelter. Plenty of places to get discarded…

I’m not saying there aren’t hoops to jump through. But consider the other side - breeders who sell a bunch of puppies for Christmas without any concern for who’s doing the buying and within the year the families can’t handle the dog and drop it at the local shelter.
We are responsible for the health and safety of our…

Don’t buy from Breeders. Period (medical reasons aside). Just don’t do it. It’s not quite this simple, but it might as well be: Every dog sold by breeder is a dog killed by a shelter.

You may be speaking the truth, but based on my experience your claims ring false. The rescue groups are primarily concerned with the pet’s safety and care. And the shelters are even less stringent. Again, your claims just sound very odd based on what it’s like here in the Bay Area.

I’m guessing the photo was taken before labor day. R2's summer collection.

As a former volunteer at my local animal shelter, I find your line of thinking a bit callous. Animals suffer largely due to human ineptitude or cruelty. Helping animals overcome such treatment is indeed an ethical and moral good. I stand by that.
As to the argument that all resources spent on animals is money wasted…

Okay. But you seem to be the one who’s acting like Cartman here. You don’t like dogs or messes or nasty things. You keep a very clean house and have high standards of hygeine. Cool. Sounds great for you. Other people are a bit nastier...and no worse for wear. Sounds like there’s no problem here.

If you’re afraid of bacteria, you’ve got a lot more to worry about than other people’s pets. You got 100 trillion squiggly little germaggedons on you right now. From what I can gather based on years of experimentation, my dog doesn’t make me sick so why worry about it?