I tested making a pattern for a top from wrapping a dress form in cling film and then covering it in masking tape. When I cut it off, it kind of looked like the first image: translucent, standing up by itself. But not that creepy. Because that thing really does look like human skin.

Fucking peasant, he is.

Having had some contact with Jehovah's Witnesses, they believe this about pretty much every other religious organization out there.

Yep. Consecutive sentences (aka "boxcars") are a real possibility, especially in a case as horrific as this.

Karyn, would you consider adding AHA's symptoms of heart attack in women to the post? Confusion about the symptoms is a large part of why women are facing delayed treatment.

The breaking into a house comparison seems just as unlikely to be thwarted by carrying a gun as the presumption of averting rape.

Yeah, the whole "fight back with the gun" thing only applies in certain situations, and with certain types of people. How many people have both the skill and ability to whip out a gun and shoot an attacker? Even trained soldiers sometimes can't bring themselves to kill people, even in the line of fire. Are there…

I had to hang a picture frame so I used the butt of my gun to hammer in a nail! Boom! Guns solve everything! Need to open my beer can? Gun to the rescue!

"The only thing that can stop a bad rapist with a gun is a good rapist with a gun."

I'm pretty sure that clever heard of this guy and filed a restraining order.

Nothing says "fundamental respect for life" quite like a mean-spirited, half-assed pun aimed at someone grieving over the loss of her husband.

When Obama won in 2008 and an elderly woman who'd voted for him was briefly a media darling because her parents had both been slaves. This stuff is still living history and, even after those who lived through it die, the rest of us still get to live with the echoes of that oppression. And, of course, the social…

Yes, Yes, YES, THIS. I'm a historian, and there is little more frustrating than people who gloss over the often ugly history of race in America by saying, "oh, that was a long time ago, we're past that now." (Same thing applies to class and gender in history, for that matter.)

It's all so recent. My still living grandmother was born before women had the right to vote and my mother was born before they desegregated lunch counters.

I'm in my thirties. My mother was the last graduating class of segregated schools in her city. When she got her first job she had to look in the colored only section. My mother is not even 70. This shit was not that long ago. Some people talk about this almost like it was a movie but this is some real painful shit.

This was exactly my thought. Bacteria is made with one strain of lactobacillus; a different strain of lactobacillus is known to live in vaginas. This isn't "eating bodily fluids," (the semen comparison is way off base here) it's culturing food using bacteria found on the body.

Republican response: "TL; DR."

Good point. I would bet they're not.