Dude. How can one even attempt to argue that a song about how much money this woman convinced men to spend on her is not anti-feminist?

See, we're for looking (but don't touch!) and we like pretty things, so spend money on us. Because we have great tits and ass. Shake your moneymaker indeed.

The way that this is determined is that the Sopranos, while having some stellar episodes, has also had its real crappy ones.

There has never been a bad episode of The Wire.

I think that it's hardly the case that the common wisdom is that whoever marries off a son loses a son, and whoever marries off a daughter gains one.

I don't know particularly why this is the case, but I doubt it's because those wives are all a bunch of wedge-driving bitches. I think it's probably centered more around the fact that the family unit centers around the women, and women and mothers have strong relationships (there were some startling articles a few months back about this very thing).

Obviously, it is difficult for a mother to relinquish her relationship with her son, when she has been the primary female in his life prior, and no longer occupies that position.

I think the ideal is cordial-but-distant relationships.

The fact is, that animals can have happy, wonderful lives with a variety of lifestyles. Yes, there are always going to be things that are technically "better" for your cats. Both my cats (one, a Siamese, bought from some backyard breeder because I didn't know any better who happens to be the most amazing cat I have ever met in my life, and the other, an accidental kitten from a meeting of my friend's unfixed cat and a stray) are inordinately happy indoor cats. They're also fatass cats, because they don't go outside. I'd rather them be a little tubby than run the risk of getting hit by a car, but outside cats with a permanent home aren't any less happy than indoor cats, and certainly have a much better life than a euthanized one or one that lives in the shelter.

I look back on my childhood, filled with animals, and it makes me sad to think that now shelters deem children to be bad for the animal's well being. The fact is, that it's true for some, but not for all, and while "better safe than sorry" is an understandable viewpoint, what's really happening is the shelters who refuse to adopt out animals to families that don't fit their strict criteria are in fact saying, indirectly, that it's better that an animal should be put down than live in a house with a 5 year old or a couple who both works. Sure, it might not be that particular animal, but some animal that could take that prospective place in that no-kill shelter will be put down, because they don't want to adopt.

Like other posters have said, an animal in a "slightly less-than-ideal situation" is a hell of a lot better off than an animal with no prospects and eventual euthanazation.

I could not, under any circumstances, adopt an animal that did not truly belong to me, and to whose situations I didn't have the final say. No way. I know the kind of loving home I can provide, and I think in the case of adopting out animals, while there will always be turds in the Easter basket of life, it does the animals, in the long run, much more good to assume the best of people.

I understand it can be difficult, but if it's too difficult, find another line of work. In the meantime, I'll head to the good old-fashioned pound if I ever want to adopt another animal.

I knew a guy once, who was permanently fried by a number of acid trips he took back in the day that had a little worm with a tequila bottle on his arm, and during one of said trips, he put a cigarette out on the worms face, making it look like a burned vortex - a black hole of a worm's head.

The issue (and I'm inked, for the record) is not whether the tattoos you choose are going to be "you" forever. What's important is that they're "you" now. And as "you" change you add on, you alter what your pictographic skin diary says about you.

I've got a tattoo that seemed like a great idea when I was 21, and at 29, I was underwhelmed. So I got some different art added to it, something that spoke to me about who I am now, and works with my previous art - I converted something I had grown ambivalent about, something that had been Just Another Part Of Me to something beautiful again.

Tattoos aren't about the "coolness" it's about a personal journey, and a permanent reminder of who you were and who you always will be.

This just inspired me to donate some more money to Obama.

Go Texas voters!

Regardless of mental state, the mothers are complicit in the abuse of the children, thus can't be reasonably reunited with their children.

As unfortunate as it is, I think the only solution is to make the children wards of the state, and encourage regular LDS families within the church to foster these kids - it will result in a much lower level of culture shock and adjustment pain for the children.