I'm sure that a secondary goal of this legislation is to force clinics to waste time referring patients to imaging specialists or money on their own ultrasound machines.

Her life was a mess, she lost her son, and she died young.

Where do you think girls get HPV from? Hint: it isn't gas station toilet seats. Vaccinating boys for HPV would help to reduce cervical cancer rates because fewer people would be passing around the virus.

Perhaps your friend is jealous of your success at attracting men or is worried that your metrosexual boyfriends will usurp her place as your friend.

Bill Clinton's been out of office for seven years now, but a large segment of this country still blames him for the world's problems. I suspect that as time goes on, they will eventually pin everything that Bush inflicted upon America onto Clinton. Especially if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

So it's a bad idea to stop hating Bush, or at least to stop being angry about the damage he's inflicted upon America and the world. If we don't keep the spotlight focused on his incompetance, corruption and shameless power-grubbing, the wingnuts and their brown-nosing enablers in the spineless corporate media will spin him into some kind of latter-day saint. They've done it to Reagan and to a lesser extent Nixon; mark my words, Bush will be next.

Knowing very little about where fortune cookies come from, I thought the article was pretty interesting. In any case, I enjoy reading about how common things are made. Next time we get Chinese takeout, I'll definitely pay more attention to the fortune cookies! But I too would have liked to read more about the American fascination with fortunes and fortune cookies.

I once got a fortune that read, "Strike while the iron is." Was it a misprint, or a Zen-like insight?

... I wonder if New Orleans' black and Democratic makeup is one of the reasons why the Bush Administration has been less than prompt with its reconstruction.

That way, they'd have the confidence to venture into the modern-day version of the smoke-filled back room: the golf course.

You're soon going to be well clear of the situation and will continue with your happy, reasonably successful life. The transient satisfaction that Mr. Poop gained from vandalizing your car will soon fade, and he'll be left to his miserable, failed existence. Who's the real winner in this pissing contest?

The airlines could have improved their customer service and taken steps to see that past debacles with people stuck for hours on planes weren't repeated. But they chose not to do anything about it and let things slide until the government was forced to step in. They have only themselves to blame if Schumer's legislation passes.

Legislation also would level the playing field among the carriers. I'm sure that the bean counters at Carrier X would scream bloody murder if it was the only airline that let its passengers off the plane after three hours parked on the tarmac. Forcing all of the carriers to do it would neutralize that argument and ensure that none of them are put at a competitive disadvantage by improving their customer service.

I'm not a supporter of the war by any means, but I respect a man who does his duty and doesn't use his privileged position to weasel out of his obligations. (Yeah, I'm talking about you, GWB.)

Or, as Nietzsche put it, "Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

The current crop of neocons spent their formative years as cold warriors. Is it any surprise that, when given the chance, they've replicated aspects of the old Soviet Union (down to a bizarre Stalinist leadership cult)? They've become what they used to hate, and lack the self-awareness to recognize it.