If I’m remembering correctly, Scientologists just believe that children are mini adults, and should be treated as such?

This argument makes literally no sense here in the old US of A. Mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA coverage and that is it. You can take FMLA when you need to nurture and care for someone else - albeit in your case it would be an ill spouse or parent. Caring for a fledgling life is the same thing in this…

You can use FMLA for things other than new children—sick spouse or parents. But it still doesn’t get you paid.

I feel like since some courts have decided that’s ok I think public shaming is really all we have left. Good on her for passing on some humiliation, honestly.

I don’t think following someone for a few blocks constitutes stalking. I also don’t think that telling someone that you don’t approve of something they just did to you is harassment.

The yelling is beyond what she should have done because it edges into harassment, which is illegal, but I think following and filming him is kind of an ideal response because it is legal. As you said.

Hey Anna, this is not a criticism aimed at you, but at the next staff meeting maybe suggest that the site tweak the algorithm so that these sexually suggestive images don’t pop up under a serious story that’s (ostensibly) about the harassment and objectification of women?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so perfect an encapsulation of the modern conservative mindset as this.

i believe what he is saying is that god sent the iceburg to punish man for transitioning from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy

I know it’s not the takeaway, but a volcano is freaking lame at that age to begin with. We built one with my then four year old for us to play with. We had a great time but unless you have something else backing it up like how eruptions change the environment, etc this is super lazy already.

Yeah okay but

No gonna try and speak to your experience or anything, but I’ve seriously never understood this “vegan dictating their life choices to others” archetype as anything but a paranoid fantasy of people who feel somehow attacked by the personal choices of others which in no way affect anyone else.

I’d say the same to all members of the so-called Freedom Caucus in the House. Since all you do is whine and complain without ever planning on legislation beyond repealing the ACA, just quit and be “pure” conservatives, living in isolated cabins in the wood, far away from any public service anywhere.

Everyone calm down, Bernie’s twitter has directly addressed the incident, they just hadn’t done so by the time this article was published.

Teen pregnancy doesn’t have to be the tragic story that it is often portrayed in the media. Having babies in high school is a viable strategy for women to start a family before she enters the workforce, making career planning a bit more manageable.

“The iPod requires me to change my lifestyle to meet it’s needs...”

To be fair, this is not a bad summary of Apple’s marketing strategy: Create a thing that nobody thinks they need. Convince people that they need it. Repeat.

I read like one paragraph of this, which included her name and the phrase “Lime Crime” and I’ve already deemed it gibberish.

I judge you.

They need someone to calculate exactly how much money this cost each American taxpayer and have negative black-and-white ads run with an ominous voice saying “The GOP would rather take 120 dollars of yours to beat a dead, rotting horse carcass then to put it towards schools, roads, public goods, or back in your…