Honestly it doesn't matter who has the right of way. Person vs vehicle, and the vehicle wins, physically at least. The right of way isn't going to heal your severed spine or your brain injury when you dash out into the street and a driver doesn't see you until it's too late.

The worst part of my drive to work is when I get into town or am going through town to go home. Lots of people will just RUN across nowhere near a crosswalk, or worse, 5 feet from it (which really screws with your depth perception if you're a driver and can see the people and the crosswalk but the people are before the crosswalk). The parking lot where I work includes a bus exchange and is always packed with people, most of whom don't bother to use crosswalks or will just walk out in front of you when you're turning (due to the buses, many people on the road are not visible to the driver when they begin making the turn).

And the people who walk painfully slow. If you're in the road, get across as fast as you can. Don't wander leisurely.

The only thing I have sympathy for is people who walk behind cars that are backing up in a parking lot because especially on a sunny day in a busy lot, it can be hard to tell if someone's lights are on or if it's just a reflection of the sun until you're literally behind them. If I'm the pedestrian in that case I just give an apology wave and move away.

Why do you figure that's a stupid term? In the early months of pregnancy, when most abortions happen, that's exactly what it is. It's a clump indistinguishable as a human being that is made of cells.

And considering North America is a first-world continent and we have actual healthcare, it's rare for abortions to fail when carried out by a medical professional or under the supervision of one, for medicinal abortions. It's 2014, not 1945. The possibility is so small it's almost nonexistent. A huge portion of the results you'll find if you google that are from pro-life groups, and it's fear mongering and nothing else.

Abortion does NOT always cause any type of guilt or depression. A large number of women who do experience post-abortion guilt or depression do so because of people like yourself SHAME them for THEIR decision. People like YOU create a stigma and call these women everything from murderers to whores to demons to blah blah blah. If a huge group of people stood in the chip aisle of grocery stores across the continent and called people horrible names for picking out a bag of chips, eventually they'd feel guilty and depressed about eating chips, too. You should be the last person to talk about 'support' when what you really mean is shaming them into doing what you want.

Were YOU volunteering to take that crackhead's baby? Do YOU donate a significant portion of your income to supporting children put up for adoption? Where are you stepping up here to help all these fetuses you demand be 'saved'? How about the ones so screwed up by their mother's drug use that they're basically a potato with a face? I find it doubtful you're just throwing money to help these kids.

You know what drugs do to fetuses? Horrible shit. I've spent time in highschool working with some kids who were severely disabled due to their mother's drug use. Some were missing organs or had significant organ failure and TONS of medical conditions, lots had to have medication repeatedly through the day. Almost all of them were noticeably disfigured in some way, many couldn't walk or stand. Mental conditions were all over the place. Some were fairly responsive but were stuck in the mind of a 2-5 year old and others would just sit and stare at the wall all day, wouldn't respond to anything or anyone, and had to be fed through tubes. They were blinking vegetables. Does THAT sound like a great life to you? I'd have rather been aborted. They will NEVER do anything on their own, they are utterly dependent on others and can't even use the toilet for themselves. Aborting someone who would end up that way is mercy, not murder.

On TOP of that, guess who's there for them when they pop out, all barely-alive and screwed right up? Mommy dearest and her bff the crack pipe. What a sight would that be, a new mother breastfeeding her baby, picking her meth scabs all the while. When Mommy ends up in jail, they bounce around in foster care and never get adopted because nobody adopts 'special' kids, certainly not the kids who need round-the-clock care.

And as for rape babies, what in the **** are you talking about? Nobody aborts the product of their rape to get back at the rapist. They abort the baby they didn't want that was forced on them BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT IT. You know what causes psychological scars? Being forced or shamed into carrying a baby for 9 months that you don't want, and then going through the adoption process.

Go ahead and have your opinion, but have real facts, not 'facts' from pro-life organizations.

If she knows she's pregnant and she does drugs or ingests substances that are known to cause issues and defects in babies, then yes, she should be held responsible in some way. Not charged, perhaps, but she should be forced to get rehabilitation if she wants custody of her child. If you want to bring a child into the world and are not planning on an abortion and you cause birth defects by being high or drunk during your pregnancy, that is child abuse. You are damning a person to live life as a crack baby or in some way handicapped because of your actions.

Do I think jail is the way to go? Maybe not. But responsibility must be taken.

And if a woman is using drugs or alcohol in an attempt to miscarry in a place where abortion is legal, she should be held responsible for that too, especially if she lives somewhere where abortion is accessible and not outrageously expensive.

This has no parallels to the abortion debate, though. Aborting a bundle of cells so that it never becomes a child is far less cruel than abusing one inside the womb for 9 months and then forcing it to live its' life handicapped (often extensively with drug babies) and dependent on others for even simple tasks.

Home-made broccoli cheddar soup in a bread bowl. I made enough for 2 servings so that might end up being tonight's midnight snack too.

Cool. I'll have to try some if it's available in Canada. We got Pepsi Next which is a lower-calorie Pepsi but not diet, but I haven't tried that yet.

They do blood drives at school? I didn't think you were allowed to donate until you were at least 16.

I haven't. I need to start. Pretty sure I'm O+.

I believe it's real to an extent. I think that through the subconscious we can access things we may not be able to normally and change behavioral patterns with subconscious suggestion. But the stuff they do on stage is complete bull at best and is all done for entertainment. It's a stage show, nothing more. Mind control is not real.

I am interested in past-life regression though, that sounds neat.

I wouldn't say I HATE reality tv, I'm just bored of it (the premise of 'reality' that is barely real) and don't watch it. Oh, you're a trainwreck? Good for you. I don't care.

Occasionally I'll watch something when a big deal is made of a specific episode, just to see what the fuss is about. But I don't tune in regularly. I watched Extreme Couponers for the first season and the amount of fraud and illegal BS that went down on every episode made my stomach turn. I stopped watching once I started seeing how much the fraud was piling up.

I'll watch Kitchen Nightmares because I like watching Gordon Ramsay yell at people and sometimes I'll watch Dr Phil if the subject matter is interesting, but I don't think the latter really counts as 'reality tv'.

Watched it. Not impressed.