Oh, I know this one. It’s because of the craven desire to extract wealth from the pocketbooks of alumni.

I think there’d be legal ways for a public university to disestablish any organization that maintains arbitrary standards for membership, is gender-exclusive, and has hidden initiation practices. Many fraternity houses are on ground leases: the national organization owns the structure, but the university owns the land.

I have yet to encounter a compelling argument (beyond the craven desire to extract wealth from the pocketbooks of alumni) as to why American universities should continue to allow fraternities as official campus organizations.

Nope. I’m almost close to be done with anything about New Yorkers. Especially Woody Allen. The only thing about young women in New York that I can get behind is the amazingly cutting satire Fort Tilden.

Police are not good tools of discipline at a school. They often cause the situation to escalate instead of calm down. It takes a different skill set to handle discipline and maintaining order in schools. Middle school is rough and trying.

Willing to bet $50 Ted was stung by a jellyfish and knows not the difference between jellyfish and octopus.

The link says a family member was home. It may have been a relative babysitting. And there isn’t any indication of what time of day it was. Sometimes kids randomly want a wardrobe change.

They were actually pretty decent about addressing some Scary History back in the day I thought. The books had war, escaping slavery, immigration and child labor! No idea how much that’s been sanitized over the years though, the brand was pretty “educational” back in the day.

Have you been to New York City? Like maybe on a school trip? Brooklyn is fucking huge. It’s not all Williamsburg. 2.6 million people live in Brooklyn, most without a trust fund. Same with Queens. No one I know who lives in New York gets money from their parents, but they manage to make it work. They have roommates and…

I’m definitely looking forward to seeing this. Now Bernie Sanders needs to top this by appearing on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as Danny DeVito’s estranged, radical right-wing older brother named “Bernie.”

Moments like this I realise I live in a very sheltered liberal bubble. Maybe it’s living in NYC but I don’t know a single person who got offended or felt threatened by Beyonce’s video. Also, who the hell are these people? The video and song are catchy and yeah the political elements are there but they’re pretty light…

There’s a double standard here, too. White musicians wear Che Guevara t-shirts so much it’s a cliche and nobody thinks it’s much more than a fashion statement, but Beyoncé puts her dancers in black berets and suddenly she’s a full-on Black Panther? It’s ridiculous.

I don’t so much object to the color palette (I am very into neutrals lately) so much as every single one of the garments is hideous in both style and structure. They all look like rejected ice dancing outfits. 0/10, would not wear.

If you read the comments, they’ve actually found that the vaginal bacteria get even closer to the digestive tract population close to delivery. Nature is WEIRD, man.

How, pray tell, is calling this research a study a “bit of a stretch.”

True- I guess I meant “C-sections that women were totally OK with” or “C-sections that didn’t kill women/happen after women were already dead.” It was NOT a common thing, and babies rarely survived.

The utter lack of reading comprehension skills, scientific literacy, and understanding of basic anatomy on display in this article and the comments is really depressing.

We are just beginning to understand exactly how intimately (no pun intended) the symbiotic relationship we have with the bacteria that live all over us, and constitute multiple pounds of our body weight, impacts our health, and all signs point to ‘very much so’. Colonizing C-section babies with the bacteria they would…

It’s not a trend! It’s a goddamn scientific study.

Jez really needs a science editor.