Other countries require losing parties to pay court costs and attorneys fees. These are automatically awarded to the winner of the lawsuit, which discourages all lawsuits from people who think the chances are high they won't win. This also prevents people from behaving like jerks in the first place. Those countries hav...more

Caleb is definitely a hero. Think about it: when was the last time you ever saw Batman do anything useful in real life? All he does is entertain in movies, but if you were to ask people if Batman was a hero, they'd all agree he was. So Caleb definitely is!

Excellent point, tom956. Notice how this article is entirely lacking in details? They ask the absurd question "do you think this is racist?", then give us little in the way of explaining what the designer has already gone to great pains to explain.   @tommy80, Walmart most definitely IS destroying the economy! It mi...more

The point might have been better unsderstood if she just showed the actual thing and captioned it with "the kids making your Walmart merchandise".

I used to work at the Humane Society. The most unusual pet I saw was a squirrel that one of the staff rescued and kept. He was adorable, though.

Africa has a lot of rape and resulting teen pregnancy. If they can prevent the rape and delay pregnancy until women are old enough to handle it, that would save a lot of women's lives right there. This article kind of leaves us hanging with the last 2 lines: "Save the Children has four simple things that could make pr...more

Wow. In the last picture, all of the princesses look sultry and coy, like they are hoping something will happen that little girls shouldn't be thinking about. Look at Jasmine! That's not the princess I remember from the Aladdin movie.

Thank you for the condolences, everyone. To answer your question, Joking, you might want to look into what all that entails. Victims of identity theft can only request a new SS# if they can prove that they have exhausted all means of stopping the prepetrator, and the theft still continues. I don't think my situation wo...more

That's a very sad story. Mine is similar, but not quite that bad. My parents did steal my identity, took out several credit cards in my name and put me thousands of dollars in debt, just paying the bare minimum so the banks wouldn't contact me. When I found out, my grandmother paid what they owed but only if I promised...more