Before you get married a relationship is a lot more tenuous. It’s much easier to dissolve and so people are always aware of the fragility and they work harder to keep up appearances. But once you get married it’s all about the maintenance, you aren’t trying to get to a specific level by making sure to do things…

No one else getting a strong William of Orange (III) vibe from the lead photo?

You have such blinders on that it’s incredible.

Stating that birth control “shouldn’t be a prescription” is pretty shady language. I’m sure his campaign is hoping that they can play that sound bite for evangelicals/Catholics and they’ll hear “birth control shouldn’t be a legal prescription.”

You’re not planning on having biological children so what’s stopping you from adopting right now? You should adopt or foster as many as you can support, since by your logic reproducing is inherently selfish, isn’t it just as selfish to knowingly ignore children sitting in “adoption centres” when you don’t have kids?…

Which do you think is more difficult: talk-show host/tv personality or thorastic surgeon? A lot of people go into medicine to flatter their egos. They expect to be treated as heroes and end up feeling under appreciated and unrewarded. Their patients don’t follow their recommendations, people die on them, results don’t…

I actually think the law itself is pretty much bullshit and doesn’t actually do much of what they claim. I think that Canada is more worried about becoming a safe haven for polygamists trying to flee the US, who will then become a burden on the public services. The B.C government has been involved in a long standing…

Canada recently revisted their polygamy laws and concluded that because most polygamist groups remain isolated from wider society and protect abusers by hiding evidence of sexual assault and underage marriage, without polygamy laws it becomes much harder to intervene on behalf of abused children in these communities.…

4 months off? They get 4 months to research and work on their publications. Plus they have graduate students to advise, duties towards the university, conferences to organize/attend and grant applications to write. The real money comes only as a full professor, after you’ve spent years working evenings and weekends to…

I have a theory! It used to be that intelligence wasn’t a virtue, or at least, not a virtue that surpassed other virtues like being a hard worker, being honest, being dependable, caring..... but we’ve become more technologically driven and we’ve lost a lot of the jobs that paid a decent salary for hard work. So now,…

I think you have the best of intentions and that your wife has the best of intentions and it sounds like this is the division of labour that you both think is going to work for you as a couple and I’m sure it will, until it doesn’t and I can explain why it will suddenly become problematic and you will feel really…

How is this perspective supposed to work in a country that has the largest military in the world? Are all service people supposed to be child-free? Physical absence is not the worst kind of absence in my opinion, nor does it come anywhere close to distinguishing between good and bad parenting. Most parents are just…

So, he was OK with that the treaty did not address abortion “this is an appropriate position...” yet tried to get it to include language that extends protections to fetuses, as though that has no implications on abortion. and then when that wasn’t accepted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he declined to…

My cats have only ever drank toilet water, even when presented with many good options. If I closed the lid, they would die of dehydration.

Putting the lid down at night means that someone might sit down not realizing it’s closed and pee all over the closed seat and not the floor. I’m not saying that this has happened to me, just that there’s the real potential here of ruining someone’s middle of the night piss.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who read the title and then found that they couldn’t really read it because their head was filling up with all sorts of angry buzzing counter-points. Luckily, I did scan a sentence that made it clear that it was a parody. Funny how that can make me feel both relieved and like a fool at…

Are you the kind of person who thinks there’s only one explanation for everything? Similar events can have very different reasons behind them. Public figures get hacked and national institutions and private companies, no one expects that the reasons behind every hack are the same.

I really wish there was legislation that requires the celebrity product promoters to actually use these products for a minimum of 30 days before posting an advertisement. Isn’t it false advertising when they say “i love using...” and yet they’ve never tried it?

You know who lies about having a degree in architecture:

Yes, white people have white. I say, in this particular case, that should be enough for us. We’ve had a lot of fun for many centuries pointing out how other people are not white by calling them coloured. We’re the ones that have excluded ourselves from the party by insisting that we don’t have a colour. This is our…