I've changed my kid's diaper, discreetly, in a restaurant booth seat. I more often pick the floor of a restroom (not in a stall, obviously). I don't think it's that big of a deal. Pouring coffee on the floor loses any moral high ground the family might have had. Bad behavior by everyone involved.

I'm not into "pain for vanity" either, but, incontinence (another TMI!) made it necessary to keep very trim. I just use a bikini trimmer and keep it very short. Works great for me bikini wise. But I do have very blond hair, not sure if it'd work for someone with dark hairs...

Love the opening theme music. I watched the two seasons on Netflix streaming, the second season is definitely stringer an the fist. Good guilty pleasure show.

Just to be clear - I completely agree with you. But I do imagine there are parents who would chose gender assignment surgery very early in the child's life thinking it is for the best. 1 in 2000 isn't all that rare, as birth conditions go.

First of all, yes, poor kid. Why do it at 16 months? Did they do it before the couple met the baby? (The article says they adopted him a few months later, it's not clear if they were fostering the child). I have to wonder how dangerous the surgery is ---- if this condition is found in one of every 2000 births, the surgery must be not extremely rare. I imagine a portion of parents faced with the condition would chose the surgery .

My advice is skip the fake pepperonis and go to Soyrizo as a topping / fake meat. Soy chorizo. It is DELICIOUS, while fake pepperoni is kinda sad. (14 years and counting vegetarian here....)

Earlier in this thread, a clearly pro-life poster put this: I see nothing said in this post about the women who would be carrying the baby, aside from that dismissive "they". Would you use this as evidence that the poster clearly doesn't care about pregnant women and can't even bring herself to mention them? I wouldn't, but, that is the same logic PPs are applying to the pro-choice organizations.

The article I linked to earlier was by the President of NARAL. Here it is again: http://www.cnn.com/2...l-pennsylvania/ Here is the position of Planned Parenthood: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/14/planned-parenthood-on-the-real-lessons-of-the-kermit-gosnell-case.html

Homeschooling isn't always the right answer, just like public schooling (obviously) isn't. It's a hard choice to make, to keep it up. You are making such an important decision for your child, have weighed it and talked about it and fretted about........ and then you have it questioned. It's natural it rattled you. But you know you have put more time into weighing the options, you know your kid better than anyone. Trust your instincts.

Because we are a multifaceted group with many interests? I don't mind it, so long as it isn't a link with no comment at all.

It doesn't make any sense. Abortion after 24 weeks is illegal in both state and federal law. It is not protected under Roe v Wade. I can only guess it was just a defense lawyer trying to do his professional duty to a client who had absolutely no legitimate legal defense.

It's not that "many" in the pro choice camp find this disturbing.....I can't imagine anyone not being horrified by this story. As someone who is pro-choice, I will say that the horrors that happened in his "office" are exactly what we fear conditions would be like for many, many, many more women if abortion were made illegal. And the pro-life movement's progress in closing abortion offices and making it more difficult to get access to care contribute to sending desperate women to places they should never have to go. Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/opinion/hogue-gosnell-pennsylvania/

So it sounds like you think people with young children should not use the family locker room, unless it's a man with an opposite sex child, or a woman with an opposite sex child above the age of 5??? I have two kids. I like the family room because I can get changed and have both of them with me without having to have a hand on them both the whole time, I can have my barely-potty-trained daughter on the toilet without having to hold the door for her, I change the baby on the floor, and not worry about the two kids seeing random naked people, or people in various stages of undress. Not because I want to shelter them from the human body, but because they are too young to hold back from commenting on people's appearance and ask possibly rude/hurtful questions. I think the time limit is reasonable, but, I think family locker rooms are great for families with young kids.

Middlebrow. So condescending.

I was a kid when TNG came on but I already knew Riker was a DORK!! I cringed at him then, now I find him funny.

Walk away unless they are willing to let you actually own the property you will be paying off.

That sounds very wholesome. How do you season it?

We go on a family hike every Saturday it doesn't rain. I have little ones so "hike" usually means just a few miles, and my husband carries the toddler half the time in a Kelty Kids backpack. Joined my state's Audubon Society and are going trough the sanctuaries one by one. What I love about this is that it gets us all outside and doing the same thing together. It's an adventure every week.

Surprising to hear it said aloud by an executive, but, that thinking is Fashion Marketing 101. Really basic and has been true for many stores for decades. It's why high end fashion is almost never available in larger sizes, or many mall stores..... Victoria's Secret sizing stops at D cup.

I think that one is a no-brainer.

I am sorry for your loss. I'm sure that sort of family tragedy would influence anyone's outlook.

What an amazing story of survival. Let's not worry about what happened, what horrors they endured, etc right now, let's just applaud the heroism. 10 years after an unbearable trauma, she found an opportunity and jumped on it. And saved herself, 2 other women and a young child.

Sports are serious, education is serious. I would equate an eighth-grade graduation ceremony to a year-end wrap up party for a sports team. They typically do not exclude team support players, injured players and benchwarmers from the wrap-up party.

In defense of ''I could care less' -- it's not like 'I couldn't care less' is literally true either. It's a cheeky idiom similar to 'fall head over heels'. My pet peeve cliche phrase is 'I'm a voracious reader'. Partly because you never ever hear the word voracious in any other context (you'd think well read people could be more original). Partly because It always sounds like bragging about a hobby to me. People say I enjoy cooking, or I crochet for fun, not I am a fabulous cook or I am a high volume yet high quality crocheter.

Sports are a big time commitment. A 8th grade graduation is just a made-up ceremony that'll last, what, an hour or two? I'm kind of amazed that excluding a kid who wants to be part of it is is important to a bunch of adults.