My experience is that most Russians would use "gomosexual" or "goloboi" (literally, light blue) to mean gay, whereas "pederast" is used by haters and young people.

"You can feel relaxed and calm [in Russia],"

The program I'm thinking of is administered through the Department of Education and is definitely 10 years. http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/fo…

But I see your point about a longer timeline.

This is an amazing, and touching, tribute to your son. He sounds amazing.

The program is too new for anyone to have completed it yet. It came into being sometime in the mid 2000s so the first class should be finishing up soon. BUT, I do know tons of folks doing the loan forgiveness program and so far (knock on wood) it seems to be going well. One trick is that you must to income based…

Dearborn Heights neighbors Detroit, but has its own police force and I understand they are pretty responsive.

That was .218 hours after the accident. We can only know what her BAC was at the time of the accident.

HOWEVER, this guy chose to open the door. He could have sat in his house and called the police, who would have responded because Dearborn Heights has better public safety services than Detroit (where the accident…

I am so very sorry for your loss. What was his name?

The big deal is the responses he got, which varied from condescending (how great that you're sticking around for your baby mama) to the flat-out racist.

That makes me wonder if there's some poor, misguided teenager out there waiting for her magical miscarriage.

I agree with you completely, but at the same time I don't think it's the ultrasound that convinced that tiny sliver of women to reconsider. It was probably the heartbeat. Yeah, ultrasounds of embryos don't look like babies, but that tiny fluttering heart gets me every time.

I love how the anti-choice billboards always show pictures of cute smiling infants. Never pictures of embryos at the stage of pregnancy most women get their abortions.

I'm wondering if they noted gestational age in that study. This fetus was 14 weeks (so, only 12 weeks of development) old. That has to make the damage worse, plus the fact that the mother wasn't just brain dead, she was dead after being deprived of oxygen, so not as a result of trauma or something.

In other words,…

This is a really interesting and complex topic, touching on a lot of issues around mountain cultures, places where Christianity and Islam intersect, and gender norms in the "old world." It deserves better and longer treatment than a short blurb and some snark.

If folks are interested, this is a good article on the…

Good luck and enjoy your babymoon!

I'm assuming there are comments on this thread, but I can't see them. Any idea why that might be? Basically I can't see comments on half the posts all of the sudden. A Chrome problem?

The lyrics were a direct assault on Putin. I believe the English translation was "Mother Mary, Chase Putin Out!"

This is excellent news. I'll take this opportunity to once again recommend that everyone read the closing statements submitted by the defendants during the original trial. They do a great job of illustrating what the original concert was protesting (hint: not the Orthodox Church, but rather the degree to which the…

Trayvon had no marks on him at all.

We started by just putting baby on the potty every time he woke up or when I checked his diaper and found that he was dry. I would sit him down and play with him while making a PSSSSSS noise if I thought he was going to poop, or an OOOOOO noise if I thought he was going to poop.

Over time, few things happened. His…