Sorry for your loss. She looks sweet. I love the brownish belly.

Aw. My grandmother's dog when I was growing up, named P.I., was one-ear-up-one-ear-down. As a matter of fact, she looked a lot like your pup, but with shorter, lighter hair. She was the first dog I ever loved, so I have been a OEU/OED fan ever since.

Dude. Is he a one-ear-up-one-ear-down mutt? Those are my favorite kind!

I agree that the government may choose to make reasonable time, manner, and place restrictions on speech. However, when they do so, it is under the restrictions placed on them by the First Amendment. Time, place, and manner restrictions are the exceptions to the personal right, not the rule. Speech (and the manner in…

He needs a trial because it is demanded by the Constitution. It is demanded by the Constitution because the requirement of a fair trial is integral to having a free and democratic society.

I pound on my hood and beep my horn. My neighbors must think I am crazy.

Six is not so young to teach children to act ethically and responsibly. It is perfectly reasonable to tell a child that their actions have serious consequences for others.

It is a First Amendment issue because the government is attempting, through a law and an enforcement mechanism, to restrict the speech of incarcerated people. Now, the courts can decide whether the restriction on the First Amendment rights is appropriate and allowed, but it is still a First Amendment issue.

I agree with you. I think this is only really polygamy under the law, not so much polygamy in practice.

Bigamy might be a more specific term, but polygamy is still correct. Polygamy simply means "more than one wife," so it encompasses bigamy.

The statute would probably use polygamy, as it means "more than one wife," and therefore encompasses bigamy. I doubt that the law is any different for two wives than it is for three or more.

Yes. I have been fighting the good fight to not respond to (and therefore promote) those folks. It is a horrible assumption to make. Besides, she was apparently 16 when she started playing, which does not follow the "tiger mom" storyline anyway - so it is both racist and indicative of low reading comprehension to say…

I would really like her to win her suit, but I wonder what kind of chance she has. Using the term "professor" in her stage name might be a problem.

Oh, that photo. You just can't do that to a person when she is sitting in class and also playing around on the internet. I can't start weeping in class.

Well, honestly, no one looked like a TV star in my high school, regardless of weight. I imagine that, like in most high schools, we were mostly pretty average. But as far as I could see, being "fat" wasn't an absolute bar to going out with an attractive or popular guy. And no one was throwing slushies on anyone.

I think you underestimate both the "real fat girls" and the "hottest guy[s] in school." Maybe that was the way things happened in your high school, but it was not the way in happened in mine.

It is always disappointing to me when a discussion about Jane Eyre focuses on whether or not we should like Rochester. He is, honestly, not the point. He is just another choice that Jane makes.

As FACE said, there are some versions of ultrasound that are legal regardless of license, but if the women are being led to believe that they are receiving medical advice from someone who is a medical professional, it doesn't matter what the tools are that they are using, it is illegal.

I wonder if the reactions to this story would be the same if he had been injured when one of the Rockettes lost her shoe during a kick line and it hit him in the audience. Just because he was in a strip club doesn't mean that he should be provided any less protection by the law.

I stand corrected. Well, I lounge on the couch corrected, anyway.