Precious few people want to be fat, so WHY do they ignore weight gain? Could it possibly be because of the myriad causes of obscenity include countless variables of physical, mental, and economic strain? You cannot tell by looking at someone what their problems may or may not be.

Oh, well, it's ok then that you're widely insulting people you don't know and making assumptions about their behavior, because you must be one of the special, "cool" fat people. Please tell me, am I too stupid and lazy to join your little club? I want to make unfounded assumptions about other people's lifestyles,…

ahem.

Yeah. I'm a graduate student, and I'm not certain I'm going to really use my degree. I'm ok with it because I love the process of learning and being a student, plus I'm in a STEM field with a paid assistantship. Thinking I'm not going to use these skills sucks, but I at least I'm not getting into debt.

There's also the issue of non-college continuing education. There are affordable opportunities to learn skills that are valuable. The classic examples are stuff like plumbing and electric work, but that's not all. You can charge $50 an hour or more to do dog training if you're good at it. Piloting a helicopter…

Well, the game is tomorrow night, I think on ESPN2. If you Google "Louisville Schimmel sisters", some links about them will show up.

Somewhat on-topic: senior night for the University of Louisville's women's basketball game is tomorrow, and one of the senior players being honored is a Native American from Oregon. Her sister is a junior and also on the team. The game is sold out or nearly so and rumors are that literally busloads of Native people…

If she was working at home after putting her kids to bed, as alluded to by some commenters here, or making the subject of this article feel like she should be skipping breakfast and working in the car on the phone, then she is devoting a lot of her potentially spare time to work and/or giving other people the…

No. Hating your work and loving your work aren't the only two options. Enjoying your job does not require enjoying every moment and every task, and being able and willing to give up all of your free time and some of your sleep to do more work. No one is required to define themselves by their job.

If you're not embarrassing your kids, you're not doing it right. This was excellent.

Last time I heard that stat, the reason was also stress-related. In short, it appears that being the target of constant homophobia (or racism) isn't better for you than being the angry homophobe (or, presumably, racist, though I haven't seen such a study reported).

Oh, I have pictures of the first time their most paranoid hybrid let me touch her. Outside, of course. Being confined indoors with a strange person is super scary. Fighting can be a problem, but not always. Some animals just refuse to get along, and that's not a dog v. hybrid thing, it's a personality thing. They…

I mean, part of their challenge is that they have several dogs and half of them are hybrids. But I wouldn't get a hybrid as a single pet; they socialize better with dogs than people, so a canine buddy is super helpful. If you had one dog and one hybrid, it might be easier; the dog would possibly help teach the…

If you're very, very lucky, you get a cool dog. More likely, though, you get a semi-feral animal who will probably, over time, grow to trust and like you. But, the dog will not want to interact with anyone else until maybe those people have visited your home several times. Their natural instinct will likely be to…

Well, there's a big difference between "has a home with cool people who love it" and "completely wild animal". A lot of stray dogs, being homeless but still domestic breeds bred to be sociable with people, would fall in between.

Well, I've been overridden. My sister, who knows way more about this and owns wolf hybrids, thinks it's most likely a Czech wolfdog (which they use on Game of Thrones, but it is a domestic animal), a shepard/husky mix, or some mutt combination of those breeds and whatever. It's also probably old, which accounts for…

Huskies generally (not always) hold their tails up and have largish ears. The overall build and face shape also seems slightly off. It just doesn't quite look like a husky to me, at least not a pure-bred. Given the number of strays reported, it's probably a mutt, but I'd wager there's as much wolf as husky in that…

Heck, being a decent cashier might not be a "talent", but I've known (and supervised) some cashiers who were pretty bad at their jobs. You want to hang on to the good ones.

Even if it is just earlier sexism, changing it up at the Olympics, with no opportunity to prepare for the differences, is not the way to go.

I don't think so. I keep thinking it's Annie's, but that's wrong; Annie's isn't an exclusively gluten-free brand. I would have to ask my friend who needs to worry about this stuff.