I know for a fact I've lost out on two promotions and at least one raise solely based on how I looked. I know this because it was said to me to my face. I was told I wasn't going to get a raise because I 'didn't present myself well because I didn't wear makeup and do my hair', and considering I was a mechanic at the…

As a guy that was raised by a single mother who overcame a lot of barriers to provide me with a happy and healthy upbringing, it absolutely breaks my heart to read comments like this because it shows just how badly men have failed in their treatment of women.

I didn't like the Weekend Update bit, but the "send money to save the africans" bit from Bill Hader's episode was hilarious. I hope she gives us more of things in that vein.

This. She's a slut and he's some sort of freaking stud. She's unemployable while he's running a foundation and getting speaking gigs. The purity fairy only visits dudes.

If De Beers opened up all their vaults and flooded the market with what they have in storage, diamonds would cost less than cubic zirconia by a significant margin. They know this and it is why they have become the world's most approved of mafia-like companies on the earth today. They absolutely have to have the…

Chastity is to have the body in the soul's keeping. - Paracelsus. He got a lot of guff for being an alchemist man-slut back in the day, and he rebuffed it with the idea that chastity is fucking who you want, when you want, so long as you actually want it.

It's not a perfect metaphor, but let's say you wanted to become a doctor. In order to do so, you need to go to medical school. So you apply, are accepted, and move to a city 200 miles away to attend this medical school (which has presented itself as an accredited, reputable school). After you graduate, you find out…

At 9 she would surely have an understanding of life and death. She's probably lost a family member, or barring that, a family pet.

No, it wasn't. It wasn't in any way, any of her fault. She's fucking 9 years old for goodness sake. This is absolutely 100% the fault of the fuckwit who put an uzi in her hands, switched it to fully automatic, then told her to pull the trigger. The fully grown adult who, at any point, could have said "You know…

These are good kids. I don't know if I would have had the maturity to feel anything but hatred toward a person who accidentally killed someone I loved. I don't know if I'd possess the maturity now. But whenever I read about this story, I can't silence the part of my brain that won't stop yelling, "THIS SHOULDN'T HAVE…

Who puts an uzi into a 9 year old girl's hands?!?!?!?!

Why don't these people just do what I did to get out of my parents house? I am 29 and own my own home. All it takes is a fucking ton of luck and random coincidences!

RIGHT????? My Trekkie heart went from Impulse power to Warp speed. Set phasers to EXCITE.

LeVar holds the keys to the internet's heart right in his hands.

They need to learn the lesson that Coach is just now beginning to learn. In an austerity world, having your brand name in huge letters across the product is not what sells.

Yes to these kids suffering from mental illness, but boo to the idea that this is somehow specific to internet-era kids. There were so many cases in the 80s where teenagers becoming violent was attributed to heavy metal music, or horror movies, or even Dungeons & Dragons. Remember when they tried to pin Columbine on…

There have always been kids who kill. The ever-present media in your life just makes you more aware of it. There was a fanzine published about 20 yrs ago called Murder Can Be Fun (The name of a Frederic Brown pulp fiction novel) and one issue was devoted to "Naughty children". The entire issue was about the many, many…

I'm questioning that, but there have been kids who thought they were vampires murdering their parents. Or in 1957 there was Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate. Maybe the coverage is that much more sensationalist and extensive?

Wow, that teacher was a total d-bag.