I know that we could analyze this to death and talk about consent and coercion and all that, but sex can be very complicated. Does anyone ever truly consent to sex? Simple fact of the matter is that someone out there, somewhere, is having sex with a relative, and it's entirely consensual.

I must have missed that part of the Bible that says it's okay to lie IF IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE.

What an odd way to view life. Is everyone really obsessed with a happy ending? Until you're dead, you can't tell who really came out on top. And by then, who gives a shit?

I picked this book up at Barnes & Noble, looked over two recipes, and set the book back down. Eating vegan is not instantly the way to lose weight. Again, it looks like Klausner is reporting on the deceptiveness in advertising perpetuated by extremists, not on vegans.

Heather, I have always found you to be an interesting writer on a boring topic, but you should print this article out and frame it. I think it's your best.

And aside from the dickheaded comments coming from the anonymous peanut gallery, it looks like everyone agrees with me.

Ruben, you are one of the two reasons I come to Salon.com. Thank you for never letting me down.

The impact of having J.K. Rowling out a character after he is so beloved and accepted open-mindedly as he was made her actions all the more important. Had he been openly gay, people would have judged first and asked questions later. Instead, Dumbledore became a beloved character, and then we got to know him a little better.

J.K. Rowling has done a great deed with her words in this case. I'm sorry if you hate that, but I think the political nature of what she just did will have to outweigh your fangirlism.

I am very, very glad to hear that you are at very least a responsible vitamin taker. I know that a lot of multivitamins think it's a selling point to offer 3000% of some vitamin du jour and that worries the shit out of me.

The fact of the matter, though, is that vitamin deficiency is pretty easy to diagnose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin

There's a table there to show you all the diseases associated with it, and a lot of those diseases are associated with starvation, not with the diets we currently enjoy. Now it is very true that the American diet is high in animal fat and deficient in vegetables and fruits, but we do not have an epidemic of beriberi, rickets, or scurvy. I think Americans get enough vitamins as it is in their typical diet.

It is true as you pointed out that our bodies are doing very poorly with a lot of the stuff we throw at them. It turns out that our body doesn't register high-fructose corn syrup as calories which in turn doesn't trigger impulses of being full. Without those impulses, we can take in thousands of calories per day without any stopping. We partially saturated harmless vegetable oils and made them trans fats, which our body possesses no natural enzymes to break down.

I think there's the false notion that because it's natural that it's good. This is not necessarily the case. But the more processed the food is, the more untested compounds we put in our bodies, the more likely it is that we are damaging our health long-term. I prefer to eat mostly unprocessed foods, and the fewer ingredients I don't recognize, the better usually. You can compare the Mediterranean diet where the emphasis is on a lot of plain unprocessed foods versus the American diet which places an emphasis on process.

And now it's my turn to ramble. At least as a vegan, you won't have a heart attack! Just be sure you're getting enough fat to keep your brain running.

Then he should leave. Simple as that. Violence has no place in a relationship, and it is time for him to pack up and go. She can go get help, but he is doing her no favors by sticking by her side while she gets over her neediness. I don't care what brought it on; that is no way to treat your spouse.

I can't believe that you wrote ANYTHING else besides that. Reestablish trust with an inherently distrusting person, my ass.