@Alibelle: Put me down for the "tough love" side. I find that a lack of money is so stressful as to not justify a non-necessary purchase.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I know the offsides rule, the infield fly rule, the icing rule, and the intentional grounding rule. And that's just the beginning of the list.

If he'd just put his clothes out on the dresser the night before work...

@Spaceboy: Yeah - and they run in packs on the Schuylkill.

@cjlaw73: Actually, I am pretty sure that while he is taking the video, he is calling for emergency services. If you listen to the audio, he is silent while they ask questions, and then he is saying things like where he is located and how many accidents have happened. That's probably safer than being a pedestrian…

@flaky: Technically, priests take their vows to the Church (which is usually referred to in the feminine), and nuns take their vows to Christ.

@Almost Like Loving: Yes, I agree. The full piece written by Schewel is much more logically sound than the short version in this article.

@Almost Like Loving: I think you may have misunderstand her point (or maybe the explanation here is insufficient).

I could listen to her laugh for hours! It was like a birdsong.

There are always going to be people who are unethical enough to do evil things for money. What we can do to stop it is set up our society with the tools to find them, expose them, and stop them. But as long as women's health is treated as nothing more than a divisive wedge issue to be trotted out before an election…

I will never be able to un-see that.

Penn Gillette is misusing the "Marketplace of Ideas" concept. It was used by the Supreme Court of the United States to state that the government should not interfere with free speech, in part because people with bad ideas should be allowed to put them out there so that the rest of us can repudiate them. That is…

Elizabeth and John were both wealthy, successful attorneys. That is certainly not her complete will, and she was probably smart enough to include any family financial and real estate assets in a trust, which unlike a will, is not a public document.

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: I don't think they are actually divorced, only separated.

@sabinesque: In most states, a spouse (they weren't divorced, only separated) can demand what is called a "forced share" of the estate, no matter what the will says.

I just hope that someone can confirm the Apocalypse in enough time for me to un-quit smoking.

@BrookeD: More for you!

@PaintedTrollop: She just couldn't stand all the needling from her parents.

It seems to me that this woman wanted an apartment and waitstaff that she could not otherwise afford, so she decided to take on children for a week at a time to pay for it.

All sports records are bullshit. Records exist across time, and time changes any number of variables for which a simple statistic like "number of games won in a row" cannot account. The skill of opponents, the number of games in a season, the treatment of injuries, the rules, the technology, etc., all change with…