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Jun 18, 2010 alicia from california commented on Yes? No?.

God, I love prodigy.

May 28, 2010 alicia from california commented on Burkas and Birkins.

This review is incredible (duh). My favorite part, however, was that while I was reading it there was a massive advertising banner for the movie across the top of the page. Way to go, Stranger-ad-placement team :)

May 19, 2010 alicia from california commented on Today in Dumb Ideas: Atheist Superhero Edition.

Why is "occult" part of their team name?

Apr 29, 2010 alicia from california commented on The Pope Is Really Very Seriously Thinking About Maybe Someday Kinda Sorta Apologizing To All Those Kids His Priests Raped (Some With His Help).

that song was fucking amazing. thank you for posting it

Apr 17, 2010 alicia from california commented on It's Not the Crime, It's the Cover Up.

@everyone: teachers are definitely mandated reporters, as are administrators, emts, paramedics, camp counselors (at city run camps anyway in don't know about private), soccer coaches, and many other employees who come in contact with children. As a summer camp employee and an EMT, every time i get a new job I have to go through what's called a "livescan--" it's a thorough government background check with fingerprinting and the works. And yes, if I fail to report anything that even possibly smells like child abuse I get in big trouble. And @38, we don't hear about it because it's not news. People do their jobs, report when they have to, occasionally CPS has to get called to determine whether abuse is taking place (sometimes it is, sometimes its not), it's really sad and difficult, it really sucks for everyone involved, and life goes on. That's how it works in a system where moral superiority is not a defining part of your advertising rhetoric.

Apr 13, 2010 alicia from california commented on Today in Wonderful and Just Developments; or, You Know What's 10 Million Times More Fun Than a High School Prom?.

@24... clearly you've never been to a pride parade.

Mar 31, 2010 alicia from california commented on Lunchtime Quickie: French Women Are Hot, Part II.

I just realized my favorite part of this movie is how the onlookers don't all start whipping out iphones and cameras left and right. They gawk (or don't), and then go back to their business. In the states there would be so many goddamn photo flashes and pointing that the video wouldn't even work.

Mar 17, 2010 alicia from california commented on Need More Reasons to Not Do Meth?.

Judah-- I really appreciate your commentary here. I've spent a few years living in a decently meth-riddled small town and sometimes doing medical work... I've seen far worst health, crime, dishonesty from tweakers than from potheads or even alcoholics so I generally think of it as pretty much the Worst Drug Ever. Generally I've thought of as just having to do with poor, desperate addictive lifestyles (meth is cheap, etc) but I've never really had the gaps filled in so easily or articulately as you just did. Thanks for educating this EMT-- I'll be a better caregiver because of it. Good luck on your boring/time consuming work; that blows I've totally been there.

Mar 10, 2010 alicia from california commented on Control Tower.

Matisse, surely you know that the pacifier has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with the teeth-gnashing jaw pain in the 7th hour of an ecstacy high, right? It's been a raver thing for years now.

Love the article but wish it was longer. I once had to slam shut a fantastic book about neuroplasticity because about midway through he got to discussing how kinky people were all abused as kids. I had loved the book up until then and tried to stick with it but just couldn't get past the fact that anyone who was so obviously wrong about such a big thing couldn't really be trusted about anything else.

Mar 9, 2010 alicia from california commented on Chinese Government May Ban the Eating of Dogs and Cats.

I've always wondered why people get so squeamish about eating dogs and cats. What @3 said. Historically people have kept all kinds of crazy animals as pets. Just because white people like dogs and cats right now, no one else in the world gets to eat them? I can't say I give much of a shit either way, but I've always just found it to be an odd and arbitrary standard.