That’s not how the law in Spain works, your direct descendants have a right to your money, if you don’t want to. There is a minimum percent you must leave to your kids.

If you want to try her books, the first novel (there is a prequel novella) of her Brother Sinister series is available for free at Smashwords (legally, I mean), the title is The Duchess War. It’s not my favourite book by Courtney Milan, but you can check if you like her style before spending your money. I really like…

One of my favourite romance writers (really, one of my favourite writers, period), Courtney Milan, has books about the Victorian period that are fun and witty, with balls and romance, and pretty dresses...and at the same time she manages to show how awful the life was for everybody who was not rich, straight, white…

I thought that maybe the woman who was pushed had a headscarf and the other woman thought something about “fighting terrorism”. The part “her head was up—kinda proud of what she did.”makes you think that there was a story here. ¿Racism?¿Revenge?

Or at least he could be more explicit with his messages. If he wants people to know that he doesn’t like gay sex, he could make a message appear in the sky to say so. Or a plague of locusts devouring every gay marriage certificate.

The infallibility of the Pope doesn’t apply to everything that he says, and infallible doctrines are, in fact, very rare and there are strict rules to be considered as such.

Of course we should never forget what happened to the Jewish victims, and why it happened. But at the same time, there is a certain erasure of other groups, to the point that groups that were victims of the Holocaust have difficulties to be recognized as such.

I have known several people whose life was destroyed by alcohol, or died because of it, but none because of pot (not saying those people don’t exist, some people can have really bad reactions to cannabis). I’m not anti-alcohol (although, after having to grow up with a drunk with violent tendencies in my family, I’m…

Do you know if there are the same restrictions for places that sell alcohol?

Not at all. I would have answered earlier, but I didn’t receive any notification, I don’t know why.

Most of the victims of the holocaust were Jewish people, but they weren’t the only victims tortured or sent to concentration camps: people with disabilities, gypsies, people who opposed the nazies...(fair warning: the testimonies in the article that I link below are very graphic and absolutely heartbreaking)

Yes, and in the same way, the imperial japanese flag is considered offensive in several Asian countries and a symbol of those atrocities, but I have seen it used lots of times in the West just as decoration.

There was a time in Spain when teachers would use corporal punishment against students who used one of the minority languages in the country. Congratulations to that woman in using the same teaching technics that a fascist and murderous dictator would consider appropriate (just in case: sarcasm)

Fun (not really) fact:

This link

Just curious, in what country do you live? It’s not difficult to find songs with that word in Spanish. I don’t think that it’s a obscure word in Spanish, although I don’t know if there is different usages and connotation depending of the country.

Then, unless the reality show or the sex tape reached Pakistan , the “hailed as Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian” seems more an invention of the US Press than something that people of her country said. I can be mistaken, of course, but the formulation of that sentence made me think that it was a comparation done in Pakistan…

Do they even know who Kim Kardashian is in Pakistan? I mean, I’m from Spain I didn’t know about her until I started to read Gawker (and I’m still not sure why is she famous.)

Some people see it as something that could bring awareness about their cultures, and would be glad if players use the opportunity to learn more about the real culture:

I have some experience with game masters introducing rape plots because of realism. At least, that was his excuse. My impresion was that he and the other player wanted the other women player and me to play a rape scene for their own amusement. Let’s say that his descriptions of the scene were a bit too sexy for a…