You know, I feel like I would be more okay with prison labor if there were some regulations around it that forced it to be skill building rather than just labor. For example, as a company, no more than 2o% of your product can be produced in prisons, and in exchange for discounted labor you have to prove that prisoners…

With experience milking goats, prisoners would have some experience that applies to any job in animal agriculture. It may not be the biggest sector of the economy but it's still there.

I think I would be okay with this as long as there were some kind of deal in place where the companies agree to prioritize hiring ex-cons after their term was up. Maybe the goat-milking business is a bad example, but if you've learned how to pack on a line, that's a skill. If you have experience with commercial fish…

you act like you are entitled to other people's time. Maybe pay people and they'll give you a response, but no, I'm not going to talk to someone I don't know when I'm home just because you think a two minute survey is no-biggie.

Calling a 10-minute survey "quick" is pretty deceptive. No one thinks 10 minutes of answering questions is quick. And YOU mentioned "10pm" in your original post, so don't turn around and lecture me about how you never call past 9, like my mention of 10pm came out of nowhere.

And this will be why if I ever do have to give up any of my pets, it will not be to a rescue. Because of this kind of attitude. Because if we end up in a situation where we have to move, and we can't find a place we can afford that allows us to keep our pets and we can't find people we know to give our pets a home, I…

I can understand your annoyance at the lame excuses, but I don't think it's fair to call people lazy idiots for not wanting to participate in phone surveys. Every time I have answered a survey it goes on and on and on with no end in sight (longer than "two damn minutes") and I'm sitting there wondering when it's going…

You'd think two minutes wouldn't be much time, except for the fact that my phone exists so I can communicate with people I care about, not so that people I don't know who don't care about me can call five times a day when I'm working, talking to a friend, or eating dinner, because they feel like answering their…

Coming home to be snubbed by a pair indignant felines is always the best part of a vacation :)

He should be honored to be called a cunt. I vote for Poop. He is a piece of Poop. I hate this Poop man.

Thanks for posting this authentic Egyptian art!

One of the, ah, interesting things about trauma is that memory can become disjointed or disorganized. reviewing one's trauma can help integrate the experiences into one's life. I actually use the narrative timeline exercise by the author of The Artist's Way with teens and adults who have a history of trauma to help…

For people in the U.S., when you change your name, you are often required to make a newspaper announcement, so she likely would have had to do that.

She's actually said in the past that Amanda Berry "was one of those girls that just didn't get it" because she was treated so differently by their captor—including being allowed to carry a child to full-term, while Lilly had 5 different pregnancies beaten out of her because Castro didn't want her to carry a child of…

My first reaction: what a ridiculously glamorous and frilly name
My second reaction: Astrid, you asshole, if anyone in the world deserves a little glamour and specialness right now it's her.
Seriously, if this woman can inject some prettiness into her life, power to her. You have to earn a name like 'Lillian Rose'.

Oh absolutely. If you've been held captive, abused and raped then as far as I'm concerned you are entitled to as many tell-alls, talk show circuits, product lines, etc, as you want. I might not buy/watch, but I will definitely defend you. And you are also entitled to do all of the above and still later on decide you…

skeptical? I don't know... I don't think anyone has a right to be skeptical of (almost) anything these women do. After what they went through I can't imagine how you'd find peace. LRL has always sounded as though she is approaching that challenge with positivity and hope.

I talked to a Brazilian mother once on a plane who said that everyone in Brazil just puts really sugary fruit drinks into their babies' bottles. That's just heresay, but, yeah, it's totally possible to make a baby obese via overfeeding alone. That's the same way anyone becomes obese.

"In the old days, back before all of these newfangled free-to-play games, we had a different way of dealing with a spike in difficulty. Instead of tossing money at it, we just kept playing until we got it right."

News flash for the food Nazis — hating the food, like butter, your grandparents liked is not "health". News flash - you are going to die despite how "healthy" you think you are.