You know what really gets me about anti-vaxxers? Even if...EVEN IF the vaccine increased your chance of becoming autistic (IT DOESN'T), to me, exposing my kid to the very small risk that s/he may have a spectrum disorder isn't worth the lives of other children. So even if the science were good (IT'S NOT), it's a…

Taylor Swift's Instagram is kind of insufferable.

Totally agree.

Yeah. Like I said upthread, it's a horrible situation and a good lesson that the best thing you can do for your dogs is license and chip them. But I know in my city, if a dog goes unclaimed for a week and has no identifiers, it's city property, end of story.

A week is standard stray hold. Cute puppy!

Yes. Dogs are considered property, more or less, by law (albeit property with special rights) and when you fill out the adoption paperwork, that dog becomes yours. The dog had likely been on stray hold at the shelter; that's the period of time the original owners had to claim it. It definitely sucks for this family,…

Not before the dog had already been adopted out (or at least, a mere hour before it was adopted out and the rescue hadn't checked voicemail. No longer rescue property; up to the new family to decide what to do. I hardly think the name calling is called for here, buddy.

Yeah. I work with rescues and with the municipal shelter. Dog comes into the shelter, they check for a microchip, they hold for a week, if no one picks it up, it becomes shelter property.

Passionately agnostic is how I describe my views as well. And passionately against dogmatism either way.

I think happy moms make happy babies and therefore families should do what makes them most comfortable.

These comments make me feel so much better. We're 1x per week solidly, but less if one of us is sick or whatever. We talked about it and both agreed that 2x per week would be nice, so we tried to schedule it (Tuesdays and Fridays) and that just wasn't working for either of us and slipped back into about 1x week. Looks…

I LOVED Rent as a teenager. OMG. My friends and I used to sing the libretto constantly, vowing to always be Bohemian artists.

Ditto. And I had mild anxiety every time I had to switch from another character to him, unsure what situation I would land in.

*Diamonds* are a triumph of marketing. They aren't really all that rare and have much lower resale value than you're led to believe.

I think you're right in terms of the ethical considerations and pointing out the hypocricy in this particular outrage, but I think the general consensus in the animal rescue world is that kill shelters shouldn't exist and many shelters that do euthanize for space want not to, and the general public believes they…

Ugh. So excited.

I'm OK with Drake and RiRi. I like them as a couple! But then again, I still can't really divorce Drake from Jimmy Brooks, so I'm like still rooting for Drake to be able to play basketball again and get the hot girl.

No one is "getting that" because you're being pedantic about something that is personal for a lot of commentors here.

I'm going to challenge you on that for two reasons. 1. What Jan74 is talking about are statistical outliers, so definitely "In general, there is no way to tell how healthy a person is just by looking at them" is true.

Ding ding ding ding!! Thanks for saying this.