My parents, when I was little, spanked us with the hand, the belt, the yardstick, the ruler, or a hairbrush. That was what all parents did in the group I knew, just as we knew the one parent who went way beyond what our parents considered was the line.

Not a failed state per se, but a fragile state.

S. Sudan is actually its own nation after a referendum in 2011. Sudan's leadership was not happy about the results of the vote, but they let the former region go. In part the problem is religious—Sudan's north is primarily Muslim, while the part that is now S. Sudan is primarily Christian or African pagan. The…

Anybody who does a good deed for an animal is OK by me.

Doncha just love it when female "personalities" go after other women over and over?

After the Heritage crapauds trashing a polite Muslim woman, I really needed this.

Yes, it did seem that we had to tend our own place before looking anywhere else. I didn't see comments about PoC being savages, or I would have landed on the commenters myself. Women are brutalized all over the world, including here—what's different, I think, is that Indian women aren't getting the help we get. We…

No one is saying this is a haven for women and girls. Can you also find pity in your heart for more women who are raped, murdered, and left hanging from trees like strange fruit? We are all sisters. The idea is to stop all rape.

No one is saying not to teach men not to rape—that's at the TOP of the list, for cryin' out loud.

Perhaps I should have said first that I immediately discarded, for the most part, the purpose for which the pictures were made. I loathe purity balls, purity rings, and the purposes for which these things exist. My knee-jerk reaction was repulsion.

it's so seldom something so vile comes out with something so good. I'm happy now.

the first girl looks like a ghost, and her dad looks as if he is holding on to a bittersweet memory. (my apologies, but I will be calling these as I see them.). The second girl knows the other kids will make fun of her because she's wearing a cheap little girl dress, and dad thinks the other kids make fun of her…

painballers!! Curse Macs and their autocorrects!

OG. I forgot the pain ballets, or rather, I blocked on the pain ballets. If HBO goes all overboard with them, I will bail.

Oh, good. If we go by the article on HBOs failures as an edgy culture leader turned sexual exploitation medium, they'll get the most out of the blue penises. Actually, they'll probably hide the blue penises and just show the naked women.

I have spent my 30+ year career writing to and for girls of that age, as well as those younger and older, and I am here to tell Fox News that they are a bunch of vicious, muck-rolling, chanting, pox-rotted, pus-lapping sewer worms with the journalistic chops and moral center of an 1800s snake oil salesman. What they…

pain and suffering!

because now news is newsy and then it was still real news, mostly.

I can't either, and like you, I come from a small town.

I am sick to death of these overgrown infants, SICK TO DEATH. They have not stopped bellyaching since their overworked mothers were forced to take them off the teat so they could return to work in order to help cover the household expenses in our new (since the 80s omigawd!) world. Even then they whined at mom…