Found the concern troll fail.

Why can’t this be the basis for charging the student who called the police with a false 911 call? I don’t know if the student actually called 911 or if there was another number to call in the Yale police. But the whole incident is fishy especially with the caller’s attitude of “I have every right to call the police.”…

10 am to 2 pm is much different from 7:45 pm to 9 pm. Also as anyone who lives in NYC knows, ice cream truck music is usually among the quietest sounds you will hear. Mackenzie has chosen to go letter of the law; I would respond in kind and start watching her every move like a hawk, waiting for her to (inevitably)…

To quote a book title, everything is obvious if you know the answer. Many people are not as savvy as you, so this scam might indeed fool them.

Made the presses just before last call!

It basically boils down to whether you think “do no harm” outweighs or is a priority before “patient autonomy.”

Clearly there has to be latitude for the law to investigate possible cases of sexual assault even in a delivery room setting. I don’t agree with people who say certain actions by a doctor during a delivery should by fiat be impossible to be called “rape.”

The singular they usage goes way back (see link below), so I think it would be the best compromise. I find he/she too clunky. I agree with you that it seems odd to consider he incorrect usage. It’s just usage that has grown increasingly unpopular for people who see it as a vestige of sexist language.

True. Preston and Child are more thriller writers where they gloss over science if they have to. For me that is not a knock against Preston and Child - I still lover their books.

Great points. I think it is better to work out a review system for email such as Getting Things Done, Total Workday Control, or some other filter/label setup that will highlight important messages and filter our or assign lower priority to less important messages. But it is increasingly tough to simply not look at…

Can bedbugs survive if a mattress is wrapped in a big vacuum pack and all the air is sucked out for a few hours?

I must agree. Jurassic Park was recommended to me by a friend, and I couldn’t believe how much fun it was to read. BTW If you like Michael Crichton, you should check out Douglass Preston and Lincoln Child. They are very solid writers in the same style.

That and she sounds like it was more about her - the guilt was getting to her so she dumped it out to relieve herself. Sorry, she just doesn’t sound like a person who is considerate of others in an intimate relationship. Probably she relies too much on an external locus of control to define whether she feels…

You are way too tough on the cheated-on husband. Yeah, he should have the guts to just leave the marriage, but these were the stated reasons that the wife cheated: “finding my worth through the male gaze, thinking that I needed to test his love for me by hurting them, several other small reasons that don’t really…

Many thanks, I really appreciate your feedback. I also hope I will reach a place where I feel I can properly seek out a relationship again.

Thanks, your comment does explain this issue well. I no longer get mad at women for it, I just have given up hope that I would ever really be a guy a women thinks she can depend on - there will always be some other guy who promises her more instead, and I am tired of not passing muster in that kind of dating scene. I…

As I said before, that is a completely different issue. I am not asking about which men women choose to reject; nor am I asking about men who find women who then reject or insult them. I am simply addressing your originally stated opinion: “Being nice is the bare minimum for human interaction, in my mind....” If that…

What makes Adele a good singer is her ability to infuse emotion into her voice and that’s why many people can relate to her.

I never did like Anthony, either.

“Being nice is the bare minimum for human interaction, in my mind—and there’s got to be a great deal more than that to create a lasting connection.”