Not me.

It's really hard to copy those links to hallucinations!

What paid leave are you talking about? If someone takes 2 or 3 months off to have a child (both mothers and fathers qualify) under FMLA, that leave is UNPAID unless the person has stored up enough sick leave or PTO to cover it, or has some kind of short-term disability insurance policy (which is separate from salary) and generally pays 60 or 70% of the person's gross weekly salary. Short-term disability pay, if available at your employer, is used for all kinds of things, like knee surgery or other surgery, after car accidents, etc.

Did she mean cow-catchers, I wonder, the wedge on the front of locomotives that is supposed to push cows or wildlife off to the side and out of the way of the train?

Because a cattle prod is more like, I don't know, a stun gun for cows. And it bears no resemblance to any stroller I have ever seen.

Thank you. I had the exact same thought.

Arrgh! On all the Greenwald posts, the "continue reading" link doesn't work. Either it expands the article, and immediately condenses it, or nothing happens. I use Firefox. This is maddening!

Double X was almost impossible to register in order to be able to comment on the articles. So yay, back to Slate!

I think the problem is that there is a kernel of truth, and a real grievance to the issues the MRAs are speaking about. This is the unfair and uneven treatment of fathers in family law cases. In states like Nebraska, the father is given primary custody something like 3% of the time. I don't believe that the mother is the best choice in 97% of the cases!

The confiscatory nature of the child support laws, combined with biased courts and outcomes that do not take into account the best interests of ANYBODY are maddening and wrong. Parents can't get back the time and relationship they would have had with their children, nor the influence they could have had on them to help them grow up into well-rounded people. The courts and false accusations really have become, in some instances, weapons unbalanced mothers can use to remove the father of their children from their lives (except for his money) in way too many cases. In fact, 1 case is really too many.

In my opinion, (we know what that's worth!), child support should be set for each child at the amount the state is willing to pay to foster parents to raise a child. That is the amount it costs, right? Then that should be proportionately split between the parents. If either parent wishes to provide a more-enriched upbringing for their children (note that this is a choice in intact families, and for parents with primary custody), they can give gifts, pay for extra lessons, take trips with the child, etc. as they choose.

While I don't think personal background matters, I will say that I was a single mom with primary custody of a child. I have not personally been impacted by these problems that are damaging relationships and separating parents from their children. Nevertheless, it is wrong that it happens. It is wrong that my ex was able to have a good and strong and loving relationship with my son ONLY because I wanted my son to have the love of his father. That should NOT have been up to me.

Can't wait now, till BS and MMM and the "Parson" weigh in to make me sad that I have any tiny point of agreement with them, at all.

Once upon a time, Wyoming wanted to build a coal slurry pipeline to send coal through to the markets. That idea was killed by railroad propaganda. They found a great hook, for arid Wyoming anyway--that it would take too much water.

THAT would have been the cheapest way to move coal. By far.

Well, that's true, in the absence of roofies can be extra strong drinks. And that is very hard to protect yourself against, though going to the party with trusted people certainly helps, per your example.

Of course you can't completely protect yourself. But you should where you can.

But you know, while we doing something about the bad people who rape others, in a society, each person CAN do something about their own personal safety. One of the things that women who rightly fear being raped can do is not deliberately become helpless and an easy victim.

I'm not saying that the world should work this way. But you know, I lock my car. The door to my house. I lock my computer when I get up and walk away to safeguard the private health information on it! And I don't get so drunk that I don't know what's going in a public place where anything could happen, because that increases the likelihood that something bad will happen, to me.

It is reasonable to accept both things. People shouldn't rape people, never, under any circumstances. People should understand that there are bad people who break rule number 1, and protect and conduct themselves accordingly.