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Glad to see crispy M&Ms are back. Still miss the habanero flavored Doritos.

Peyton was a girl so that wasn't her.

Only on tv do medical doctors not know how to use birth control. I didn't watch E.R for its entire run but I can't think of a single character that had a planned pregnancy.

I think it depends on what kind of stem cells were used. I'm assuming the treatment was using adult stem cells and not embryonic but who knows.

With the last name Rodrigues - I'm assuming they're of Portuguese descent. Am I the only one who thinks that the husband looks like the Deliverance version of Xander from Buffy?

I think you can still call the US the best country while recognizing that it has many faults. There isn't a single country in the world that doesn't have problems.

It would be interesting to see if this actually has any impact on kids in the long run. A number of other studies seem to show that kids tend to have similar levels of self-esteem regardless of race and gender. This study found black children actually have the highest level of self esteem and Asian children have the lowest.

I could be missing something but the New Yorker articles says "Three people shared with me varied recollections of that evening: the first said that Kyle claimed to have shot thirty men on his own; according to the second, the story was that Kyle and the other sniper had shot thirty men between them; the third said that she couldn’t recall specific details" which doesn't confirm that Kyle actually claimed that he killed 30 people in New Orleans. I agree that the man had a number of demons and shouldn't be glorified but I don't think it's fair to him to attack his reputation with something that is based on what other people claimed he said while they were all getting drunk.

Those are still all hearsay sources. Not that he didn't say it but no where in any of those articles is there a direct quote or confirmation from Kyle.

I don't mean to hijack this thread but I've seen this all over the place and was wondering if there is a source where Kyle actually claimed this. Everything that I've read is of other people claiming that he said this; did he ever come out and actually verify this one? I know he completely made up the Ventura thing and definitely lied about a number of other things. To add an actual UO: I loathe Rose from Titanic. I know her mother wasn't the greatest but I don't know how you can let your own mother think you died in a horrible tragedy when you're still alive.

I wonder how much of it is Anna asking and needing the help or the sister in laws simply wanting to get away from Arkansas for awhile. It's not like Jana or Jinger have that many opportunities to get away from home like normal young adults.

Rapunzel definitely seems more childlike but that makes sense story wise as she had spent her existence locked in a tower with only one other person and a lizard. Anna, at least, interacted with her parents and the other palace staff and received an education so while sheltered she isn't ignorant of other people and the outside world. That aside, I thought Tangled had the more complex villain and by a long shot. Mother Gothel's relationship with Rapunzel is probably the most complicated villain/princess dynamic in any of the films. Hans, on the other hand, was vital to the plot twist but otherwise pretty one note and his plan was kind of odd once you think about the way royal succession tends to work. Killing Anna and Elsa just paves the way for their fourth cousin or similar relation to take over.

There was no communion at the two Evangelical services that I have ever attended. I don't think the churches were quite as fundamentalist as the Duggars but they were non-denominational and services were held in a community center and a preschool gymnasium, respectively. I found it strange coming from only ever attending Lutheran and Catholic masses but it might not be that uncommon.

Not to disagree with your point about Disney needing to adapt non-European stories into movies but the majority of Disney animated films have not been based on fairy tales; only 8 of their 54 full length animated films have been based on European fairy tales, specifically. I think the princess thing has just become so huge that it's overtaken everything else that the studio produces. The next big princess movie, however, will be set in Polynesia.