@Tom:

avoid those men who want sexual relations without the use of a condom, avoid those men who want sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage, avoid those men who want monentary sexual bliss without a thought for 9 to 12 months into the future

Of course, no woman has ever wanted any of those things. Nuh-uh. Women are pure, holy, virginal creatures who have been tricked into having sex-without-pregnancy by thoughtless men. What all women really want is to get married and spend the rest of their lives getting pregnant every time they and their husbands have sex, in the missionary position with the lights off, the way God intended. And you're there to make sure everyone knows it.

choose a guy who is a Cubs fan and a chess player for your life companion

Apparently there's a chess-playing Cubs fan who isn't having much luck with the ladies.

@Anonymous:

I'm all for lifelong celibacy

How nice for you. Please keep that maintaining that attitude. The world is better off without you and your nonexistent kids. Now, could you please convince your fellow Puritanical wackos to practice what they preach and stop breeding?

Sex is overrated and mostly more trouble than its worth.

For you, that may be true. For most people, it isn't. Again, people who think that way are more than welcome to leave the world for the rest of us.

Most of our problems stem from bending every aspect of our lives around sex.

Let's see: right now we have war without end, a government that regards fundamental freedoms as an annoying inonvenience, a collapsing economy, and a planet that's turning into an oven ... and you think the #1 problem is that people try too hard to get laid?

Republicans will go on shouting about how they "support the troops" and calling the Democrats soldier-hating traitors ... and the Democrats will let them. If the Dems in the Senate had any guts, they'd use Peake's confirmation hearings as a way to nail the Republicans' callous disregard for the actual people serving in uniform rather than the abstraction of "the troops" ... but don't count on it.

When yellow people do it to white people, it's torture.

When white people do it to brown people, it's Defending Freedom.

Hope this clears things up.

People who can figure out a way to run out of water in one of the wettest parts of the country deserve to die of thirst. We're not talking about Tucson here, folks. Hell, we're not even talking about Denver. If Atlanta's out of water, too damn bad. I hear they have some extra in New Orleans -- maybe the Atlantans can take it off their hands?

Why, damn it, did some Senator not make the obvious rejoinder: "This is not a matter of congeniality, Mr. Mukasey. This is not a tea party. You are appearing before the United States Senate, under oath, to show whether or not you are fit to hold the position of Attorney General of the United States. If you cannot or will not answer the question, you are clearly unfit for that position. Now answer the question, or go home."

... you're a psycho. Seriously. Get some help before you turn into the star of your own horror movie.

I heard he once shot a man in Memphis just to watch him die.

Oh, no, wait, that was someone with talent. Never mind.

... Ugg is right. Giuliani's a wimp. So are the rest of the leading Republican contenders. So are Republicans in general. It's one of the (many) things that makes their macho rhetoric so pathetic. The GOP has been the party of wimps playing tough guys ever since Ronald "I remember the Big One because I made movies about it" Reagan.

The more I think about it, the more I'd like to see elections settled in the future by pro-wrestling-style cage matches. Can you imagine what a Kerry-Edwards vs. Bush-Cheney tag team match would have looked like? The challengers would have wiped the floor with the current title holders, no question about it. Not only would such a system be more entertaining and, let's face it, more dignified than our current system, I can pretty much guarantee you that the Democrats will win every time.