Hi Mika, quick heads up, I know they might have forgotten to tell you this, but you're supposed to be a journalist. Journalists generally at least read the packet that some poor PA put together to tell you who you'll be interviewing. Good journalists also do additional research.

I live in DC, not far from the Zoo. I have had several occasions over the last five or ten years to feel like I could do a much better job than they are doing of making sure the animals stay put, are well fed, and don't expire tragically from causes that seem to be avoidable. I have a strong feeling I'm going look…

Wouldn't this have been the perfect opportunity to teach a life lesson? Hey boys: girls exist. You may have some sexual feeling about girls, and you need to learn how to control those feelings. Girls don't have to change their activities just because you get a boner. But no, of course, THEY TEACH THEM THE OPPOSITE.

When I was middle school, I went to a church where they made the girls sit in the back so that the boys wouldn't get distracted. And I didn't even realize how fucked up it was.

"The best I can up with is that men and women are created equal but different."

This is nothing more than informing this girl that now that she's no longer a child (by their standards), she must know her place as a woman.

Sadly, rhino horns and elephant tusks are used for, among other things, erectile dysfunction, too. I hate Big Pharma, but holy shit, get Pfizer in there pronto. Emerging markets, huge profit potential, get on it!

The excitement over of this is just too—hm.

My adopted home is the mid-south (grew up in the north) and I was flabbergasted when I went to a meat-and-three restaurant in town that was a landmark establishment, especially among the wealthy. Elderly African-American gentlemen, hunched over in crisp white coats, carried your food on trays from the buffet line to…

I always knew this woman is just a turd rolled in cinnamon sugar. And butter, of course. Lots of butter.

Good Riddance. Times have changed. She and her brother thought they could talk all their racist shit because they were doing it in front of another white person. They obviously have never head the phrase "Just because you're my color doesn't mean your my kind".

Yep, exactly. Real republicans are white males.

This NPR article describes the craving from Vietnam for rhino horns driving this illegal poaching. The illegal rhino horn market has driven many to kill to keep the supply flowing. The larger problem are local poachers and those that pay them to kill to support the illegal market. They do the vast majority of…

You know what? I am sick and tired of hearing about Paula Deen being "an old ass southern white woman." This is ageist. Her age has NOTHING to do with her ignorance. I am a 60 year old southern white woman and I know better. Your ageism is not very different from her racism. You are insulting an entire faction…

She did the apology in REDFACE?!? Not cool, Paula. Not cool.

Granted, this quote is about 3-day old blastocysts, but I think it's still relevant to the conversation:

"A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. The human embryos that are destroyed in stem-cell…

No, most rapists are not mentally ill. That's completely off base. Rape can be about the urge to dominate or control, or because you want to have sex and she says no and you don't give a shit about her opinion. And those options are in no way mutually exclusive. I actually hated that they linked to that Reddit rapi…

I'd argue that cigarette butts are more of a problem.

We'll know that we've reached true equality when gays and lesbians feel free to approach their wedding with the same vulgar sense of entitlement and ingratitude that straight people have.