"And through our laws, we as a society seem to agree." That could be one of the silliest justifications in the history of things.

Yeah, I like how so many people think that she just blew off sending her kids to school. I've never had a job that did not require me to leave the house before my kids left for school. If you're a single parent with no money, your options are kind of limited.

Had a similar situation with my daughter in high school. Since late middle school she's suffered from a number of neck and back problems that caused her to miss school, not to mention being more or less unable to participate in P.E.

My nipples explode with delight!

My wife tends to feel that masturbating is disrespectful to the spouse. I love her to pieces and I can't imagine life without her, but she's got this unfortunate combination of Catholic guilt and abuse in her past that add up to a lot of sexual repression.

I don't think that's true, or at least not true everywhere. In any case, it's safest to get a release.

Most photographers I know always get consent, and if they cannot, they get rid of the photos. My wife is an amateur photographer; her work won't be sold or anything, though it might end up in a small gallery. She keeps a stack of releases in her gear bag for this reason.

I know, right? It's so...ugh, I don't even have the vocabulary to express how disturbing this is.

I once knew a guy who told me there was some model of camcorder that had a night mode that, if used during daytime to record people in skin-tight swimwear, would "see through" the bikinis. He would actually take this thing to the beach for this purpose.

You're awesome.

You think nobody at Warners has had that thought? For a decade they were an extremely reliable stream of revenue for WB. They're only greenlighting this new Rowling project because they miss that sweet, sweet cash. But some executive in some office already has a PowerPoint prepared on how to re-do the Potter films,…

"a huge positive impact on GENERATIONS of readers"

I was visiting a friend in the Netherlands once, and he introduced me to a friend of his. Most of the Dutch I met spoke pretty good English but with an obvious Dutch accent. Not this guy. He sounded like he was from London. Turns out he listened to a lot of BBC shortwave radio (it was the 80's).

AUGH, WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?

It's in the article.

Spectacular.

The greatest of them all.

Someone needs to send Casey a long distance dedication.

I've got no idea whether Purina's accusations are true or not, but I agree with your sentiments. It would take some pretty extreme circumstances for me to feed Purina products to my cats again.

Tinfoil-hat nonsense. It seems fairly likely (especially given the examples listed in the article) that any signals will first be noticed by researchers, not the US Government.