You were making the point that some people would attend this dinner just to see a defenseless animal killed, yes? Which would imply a certain degree of prurience, if not outright sadism? My response was that spending $150 to watch an animal humanely slaughtered is really not the best way to get those needs met. You're…

But the animals were being humanely slaughtered. It's not like they were going to be tortured to death. I imagine people were more interested in the process of butchering than anything. If someone just wanted to kill a defenseless animal for themselves, there are all kinds of free animals on Craigslist. Or in front of…

Do you even know what passive aggressive actually means? Because that was not my intent at all. I was going for full-on hostility. If you're able to access the Internet, or really any form of post-1960s media, you really shouldn't have to ask why abused people might want to maintain a relationship with someone…

The point here — and you seem to have missed it entirely — is that the relationship between children and mothers isn't always rational. You're questioning why Anna would want to work on her relationship with her mom as if Anna's the person with the problem.

You do know that children are trafficked in the developed world, too, right? Like tens of thousands of them every year in the US alone. While it's certainly possible to worry about more than one issue at a time, your insistence on the livestock thing being especially horrendous comes across as a bit insensitive to the…

Anna Cardwell is MamaJune's oldest daughter. She was born when MamaJune was 14 or 15 and had her own child at 17, making MamaJune an actual grandmother. Pumpkin is another, younger, daughter of MamaJune. There is no grandmother, or real adult, in this situation.

Dear Anna Kendrick,

Because you only get one mom? Because her mom has been the one semi-constant in her life? Because she's still very young and doesn't have all the answers?

I can totally see why people have a problem with the no single adults policy. It's questionable as to whether it keeps kids safer and it just adds to the resentment of children in our society (although kids don't make the rules).

So the answer is to kill women? Nobody has a problem with contraception, even sterilization. The issue is why are Indian women pressured to undergo an invasive procedure under unsafe conditions when there are safe, less invasive alternatives available.

This happened to me when I brought my frozen margarita pie (with crushed pretzel crust) for a work function. It had 2T of tequila in the whole pie, but one of my supervisors made a big deal out of how naughty I was. There was more alcohol in the food we manufactured than in my pie, but OOOOOOH!

If you go to your local beauty supply store, you can buy 100% acetone. It'll take the pen/marker marks right off. You've got to use it sparingly, because it will also remove original painted on features, but with a Qtip, you can work miracles.

Best. Troll. Post. Ever.

What? This is too many words about food. Food and dog fighting are different. Food and drunk driving, also different. Why are you lecturing us?

They're not smart enough to start eating people. Did I see polar bears on this list?

And you know, who even cares? They are birds. Sure if a particular bald eagle was the very last one ever, maybe. But just because it's a bird that's on a coin? FUUUUUUCK that. Ben Franklin thought the turkey should be the national bird, which I agree with, but would continue to eat on the regular. Bird+butter+ bread+…

No. The greatest tragedy of the developed (what does this even mean?) world is child soldiers. Next comes children in sex trafficking. Seriously, pigs don't event make the top ten.

Pico de gallo.

In some parts of the world, salty tea is a thing, so...

I do get what you're trying to say here, from a precision chemistry point of view. But technically, when you get bad oysters, it's not the oysters themselves that make you sick. It's the toxin produced by bacteria that have grown inside the oysters. Everyone understands what bad oysters means, just like everyone…