I have a Sultan Flataker hard foam mattress on a Malm bed. The hard foam doesn't develop a hollow like cheap spring mattresses or futons do.

No it isn't the cheapest bed they have...but I wouldn't buy the cheapest thing that anybody sold.

The idea that shopping at IKEA is a "Kafkaesque nightmare" is fairly ridiculous. What a drama queen!

I tried AA for awhile but my problem was actually depression, not drinking. Of course the people in AA didn't see it that way.

Now I drink occasionally and it never turns into anything bad. However one might say that I'm just addicted to my meds instead of alcohol.

My point is that your girlfriend is making her choices, she seems to be doing ok, and AA is no longer part of her reality except for YOU and your judgements.

I sleep strong in cheap bed to work hard in field next day. Da!

is alive and well at Salon.

you're good to go

not a mattress on the floor...just on the floor. Actually on a bedspread. It was really good for my back.

I prefer the floor...but most momen don't seem to want to have sex on the floor, for some reason. Luckily they all have their own beds these days.

Ikea needs to start selling the SEX Collection...this is the minimum furniture configuration you need to get laid.

the proof is in the pudding, as they say.

You could also try making tiny cuts all over your forearms.

and different is bad!

so maybe they'll give this one a thumbs up.

probably not .06%

they're just play-acting you know.

Does sex have to be a reward for doing stupid tasks?

who says the navy doesn't teach you skills?!

Obama is stepping through the shit...Cheney wallows in it.

It's called television.

The prison population is already disproportionately black:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

Is that solving the problem?

The first rule of statistics is that correlation is not causation. That is, being black correlates more strongly with committing rape than being white. But these people don't rape because they are black...they rape because they are low SES (socioeconomic status).

If you want proof, look up the statistics for ONLY middle class blacks and whites.

The professorship, the academic honors unsupported by disclosed grades, and the peace prize all seem to have a common origin.

Norway?

this decreases the viability of the rest of your arguments.

Over and over again supporters of Mr. Obama repeat the mantra that people like me who do disagree with Mr. Obama, and who find Fox News to be a perfectly fine news outlet, in fact the best available today, are stupid, ignorant, liars, racists, haters, dupes, dopes, tools of big business, etc etc etc.

It's not a mantra...it's an opinion. Why are you trying to characterize it as something else?

Of course, as one of the rabble you are aren't addressing me...so obviously I'm speaking to anyone else who might be reading.

People have different value systems. For example, pro-choice people value the mother's rights, while pro-life people value the rights of the fetus.

The formation of values in an individual probably lies within the fields of biology and psychology, not political science. The idea that political ideas are part of the development of an individual would explain why they are so difficult to change.

To look at what is "right" outside the individual's values is to presume some sort of universal playbook for human activity...and are we all supposed to adopt the one used by Fox News, just to simplify things?

Regarding Palin, anyone who's even slightly objective can see that she's well on her way to becoming a rather short Wikipedia entry.

of course

that is all

HD is the least of the worries with this thing.

ordinary fires only work on wooden swords.

maybe it's time to turn on the tv.

If you like to cook then America's Top Chef might be just the thing. Get some cheese puffs at the supermarket too.

For a long time I thought about it...the thing to realize is that it's about YOU, not her. She's come to her own conclusions already.

I would really suggest finding a therapist, and not bringing it up with your wife at all.

coming soon to a gizmo near you

His music was on the radio as part of the Elton/Fleetwood Mac/Steve Miller Band mix, where it fit in perfectly.

Billie Jean was not his lover...yeah no kidding.

you'll develop a nice little routine.

The closest common victim situation for men is being harassed by bullies in school.

Actually, the closest common victim situation for men is being assaulted or murdered:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/vsx2.htm

just say no to the sizing nazis

I'm getting better and better...like moldy cheese.

when I was in college I was a border in a frat house. This particular frat was not very popular, so they had extra rooms for rent.

On weekends, they had parties and so they moved mattresses into the basement to form a sort of sexual rumpus room.

Eventually these guys asked me to rush, but I always made up some excuse...like I was going to drop out of college and go live with my uncle. I moved out after a few months and got an apartment.

I can't imagine these dudes are much better at 50...but maybe Heather Havrilesky knows a side of frat boys that I never experienced.

start sleeping with a guard, to get more "rights".

Count the days with little notches in your windowsill.

Dreams like these can be easily realized!

it's what separates us from the cockroaches.

And we can't pacify everything.

Readerreader, why not? WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA???

Who's smarter, Nietzsche or Sarah Palin? Would Palin win at arm wrestling?

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

- F. Nietzsche