I don’t doubt that some NFL cheerleaders are very intelligent (I know one, and she is), but the pay won’t put you through anything except maybe the drive-through window at Wendy’s. When all the hours of practice and appearances and game time are added up, they make less than minimum wage. And they have to pay for…

I mean, if you had theories on how to protect children from abuse, why would you keep them to yourself? You’re pro-child abuse?

That’s kind of like saying you don’t need to go to movie theaters because you can watch the same movies on HBO Max

Sad that in this entire article there is no mention of Hugo Nominated Author Chuck Tingle.  

Not just Karen, but Karen W(h)itemeyer.

Boo G/O! Go Defector!

Say what site she's with and what site we'd know her from!

Defector represent!

I had a chance to meet this extraordinary young man and his mother years ago at his family’s restaurant here in Gary. He was working behind the counter, and we chatted about his love of cooking. Just an incredibly sweet kid. May he rest in peace, reunited with his mom.

57. Gym rats/high IQ players

Strong list. I’d only take exception to “52. Essential Workers.” Too often, that translates to, “expendable minority who has to perform risky work so white people can stay safe at home.”

Rest in Peace young Master Chef. May the ancestors welcome you with open arms.

I’m from the UK, and so have consequently seen a lot of BBC literary adaptations over the years. While HDM is very watchable, it’s also very BBC in its flaws - like the Gormenghast, Dracula (2006), and The War of the Worlds adaptations it makes umpteen changes for the sake of it, and every one of them, without being…

I started telling people I hated the sound of a child’s laughter. It usually makes them back off immediately.

I never found that response to work very well. For many people, telling them you don’t want kids is like telling them you don’t want oxygen...they are unable to imagine someone not wanting something that, to them, everyone should want. As far as they are concerned, children are a basic necessity of life and saying you…

Aren’t they both lawyers that have a long history of filing frivolous lawsuits anyway? What’s one more.

They still would have sued. It’s what they do: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/the-st-louis-couple-charged-with-waving-guns-at-protesters-have-a-long-history-of/article_281d9989-373e-53c3-abcb-ecd0225dd287.html

I think they just want to own it outright so they can profit from it. 

The patriarchy IS responsible for bras being a bish to clean tho. If men wore a daily garment that was hand wash/delicate cycle cold in net bag & drip dry only....

I was fascinated to learn that the Sesame Street parodies came out of pedagogical studies that showed that kids learned better from TV when their parents watched with them -- so there was a conscious effort to target some of the content toward adults in order to draw them in.