I have a pet peeve regarding Heather's articles: the word "fracking". We know you love Battlestar Galactica, Heather, but please just stop. It's highly annoying.

O'Beirne said "Why don't we, given the choices women make -- and we have a pretty good idea 30 years later how that's shaking out -- subsidize the ones who are electing to stay home?"

Is she actually advocating PAYING women to stay home with their kids? Isn't that like (gasp) welfare? Isn't that what the Republicans always rail against?

Just curious.

Could it be that the reason she's not shaving her legs is because it's a GIANT pain in the ass?? Especially when you have to do it, at minimum, 3 times a week.

That being said, as a woman, I can understand why a man would find hairy legs off-putting, to say the least. There's nothing about that to really get my panties in a wad over, either. As a culture, we've all been raised with the "hairy legs are off-putting" meme. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Railing about the "shallowness of men" or some such isn't going to change that one jot.

The husband should gently ask his wife if she's still attracted to him sexually (perhaps the leg-hair is a 'defense' against sex). If the answer is "shaving is just a giant pain in the ass and I don't feel like dealing with it", then, instead of paying for a wax-job, perhaps the husband can offer to pay for laser hair removal. That's pretty simple, isn't it?

It's pretty obvious to me that the term "progressive" in this case is used to indicate the Progressive Era of American history, of which Roosevelt, Sanger, and most of the others mentioned in this article were a part.

Couple the term "progressive" with the term "genocide", and you have a jarring combination of words that makes you sit back and think (which was the point, I'm sure), as well as a perfect, one-word indication of exactly when in U.S. history this took place.

Please, oh please, STOP using the word "frack"! I am beyond sick of this word; it's completely ridiculous. Surely Heather knows some other word that would suffice in place of "frack"?

Ever since BSG came out, it's popped up in every single one of Heather's articles, at least once and sometimes more. It's cool that you're a fan, HH, but some of us are not. The "word" seriously grates.

I once had a soul-destroying admin job.

I wrote that resignation letter, and went back to college full time to pursue a "worthless liberal arts degree". My soon-to-be-ex-coworkers were bemused, and I think, a bit envious. I'm just sorry I waited until my mid-30's to do it!

Quit that job, LW! Don't go the route of seeing if the company will pay for classes. That will just prolong your cube-farm agony.

bdelia9934 wrote:

"No easy solution for the decider-in-chief, so he picks the default – leave Rummy alone and try and move the focus to something – anything – else."

I just find this coincidence to be funny:

Perhaps we're supposed to be worried about that mysterious package (possibly a BOMB) found just today at the Atlanta Airport?

Does Maddox not realize that Chuck Norris jokes ceased to be funny about 6 months ago? And that they were probably the most annoying and all-pervasive Internet TREND of all time?

Why does he pride himself on being "anti-trend" when this particular trend has infested Internet message boards for months (Chuck Norris jokes were even an epidemic in World of Warcraft general chat channels, of all places). You literally could not go anywhere on the Internet at all, without running across some asswipe's feeble attempts at making an "original" and incredibly lame attempt at a Chuck Norris joke. Please, dear God, let the Chuck Norris bandwagon DIE already!

Besides, everyone knows that Vin Diesel can beat Chuck Norris' ass any day.

Well, since Maddox has been on the Internet for years, he should certainly know better than to write a chapter on the "latest Internet craze"--knowing full well that those crazes come and go very quickly, and get tiresome rapidly--in a book that won't be published for months. He could have just as easily written a funny chapter about Goatse Guy or "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" and it would have been just as timely. He really screwed the pooch on that one.

And, how many of you want to bet that "monk" is actually Maddox?

Not assuming. I just asked a "what if..." question.

Lighten up :)

It's not that they are lame....it's that they remind me of crazy street-people.

The first time I saw someone walking across campus, talking loudly (to no one) and gesturing at the same time, I crossed (with alacrity!) to the other side of the road, while keeping an eye on the possibly insane individual walking the opposite way. As I drew nearer to them, he turned his head a little and I saw the device sticking to the side of his head.

"Oh," I thought, "that must be one of those new Bluetooth thingies I've been hearing about. I hope they don't catch on!"

And thankfully, they haven't, much. They still remind me of street schizophrenics, though.