It's not so much that the kids are built THAT differently, although they are a bit different, but that girls today have grown up with "girls style" t-shirts. So even my science-y daughter wants a science-y shirt but styled for a girl.

For a lot of women, on the commode is the most comfortable place to birth. Their feet can touch the ground and it is open. It's basically a birthing stool for when you don't have a birthing stool.

This may sound like nitpicking, but what he is describing feels more ideological than geopolitical. By this I mean that Russia is presenting an ideological model that is actually very threatening to the United States, in the same way that Communism was pre-Brezhnev. Russia is an economically prosperous (for now)…

Russian experts have long seen a resurgent Russian Federation as a threat to their neighbors, but I still think Romney was wrong about Russia being the #1 geopolitical foe. If he had said "one of the most serious threats to Europe and to regional stability," I would have been full-on behind him, but he made a pretty…

"If only registered nurses practiced midwifery, our infant and maternal mortality rates wouldn't be on par with Barbados and Iran."

No, your statistics are way off. Homebirths (which are the only births attended by a non RN midwife) account for fewer than 1% of births in the US. Even if we accept your assertion that…

Others have already covered the "bodily autonomy" territory, but another reason why this is different than vaccination is that you can't go back and get vaccinated after you give measles to an immuno-compromised classmate. But, the vast majority of time, you can opt for a c-section if trial of labor fails. Yes, she…

I'm not going to defend this clinic's practices, but I do think you are comparing apples to oranges. Being black or brown in America (and I realize this story is from Canada but there are parallels) means learning a very specific set of lessons. This includes trivial stuff like skin and hair differences, and really…

Oh, absolutely on the PoC issue, and I've been railing about that for weeks. But in this one specific case, I don't think that involving the authorities was a poor decision. If I walked out into the parking lot of my building and saw two kids strapped into their seats in the summer, I'd probably wait with the car…

There is such a point. Certainly calling the cops about a 9 year-old in the park alone is beyond that point. But calling the authorities because you see two infants strapped into their seats alone in a car, in the summer, in Virginia? Not even close.

In the summer in Virginia? I mean, my baby falls asleep on the ride home all the time. I either idle in the car with the A/C on, lift his carseat out of its base, or lift him out of the seat. All of these are preferable to: leave baby in car and walk away.

I genuinely believe this is false equivalence. Clinton was raised by a working class, single, mom and then went on to academic and professional heights. When he did it, it was "an American success story" and his country mannerisms were charming. When Obama comes in with pretty much the exact same personal…

Does it look anything like this, seen crossing the border from Ukraine to Russia the other day? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

Even if she was, that email is trouble. They would have been much better off going with a "Due to the tremendous interest in the position, and the supply of extremely qualified candidates....." email

You are mixing up a lot of things here. So what if US and EU officials WERE on the ground in Maidan. For months, Maidan was a peaceful demonstration against a kleptocratic regime that was intent on using its (democratically elected) position to ensure that no other party could ever challenge it again.

Yes, Maidan…

"Reports" in this case being "uncited propaganda put out by Russia Today and other Kremlin mouthpieces."

The actual truth is that only the rebels had been taking down planes for weeks, and specifically bragged online about taking down this one until they realized it was a commercial passenger airplane.

The issue is that "precaution" in this case appears to have been a loaded weapon pointed right at McBride. That brings us right back to the original argument. Why not just call the authorities? There's maybe a 5 minute response time in Dearborn Heights. We have authorities trained to deal with both criminals and…

I tend to agree, but if you're going to be curious enough to open the door, you really ought not do it with a gun loaded and pointed at someone.

If I had to guess, I'd say that his defense will be: "I opened the door because I heard someone crying for help, but she tried to push her way in and I was scared for my…

This. It's also worth mentioning that, while McBride crashed her car in Detroit, the shooting occurred in Dearborn Heights. This matters because one cannot claim that Wafer didn't call the cops because of poor police response times in Detroit.

I would guess that the bigger issue is that secure, white-collar, full-time jobs with benefits are getting more and more scarce. So, folks with those jobs may have decent benefits, and they may stay about the same over time (in my experience) but that type of job is increasingly hard to get.

No, but rich kids will have the power to hire firms to scrub their internet profiles. When you've got 200 fully qualified folks, you need some way to get the number down, and "relatively clean Google search" is a pretty good proxy for "not going to do something really stupid in front of a client."