I was all goofy about meeting people online and then I realized that millions of people do it. I met a guy online. It did not pan out. I ran into him at a party later - I recognized his photo. I quietly went up to him and said, "We corresponded on match.com". He dragged me over to the hostess (who is a sucessful executive) and announced that we'd met on match.com. She smiled and said, "That's how I met *my* boyfriend!" Then she asked how long we'd been dating. I laughed and said, "Um, well, we never did go on a date." So, in my opinion, I met the guy at the party. Having seen his photo online and exchanging email just gave us an opening to talk to each other face-to-face.

Its just another way to meet someone. Its really no big deal anymore, especially for someone in their early 30s. Just tell them how you met. I would bet that a lot of your single friends would see how happy you are and would sign up in hopes they could meet someone really nice, too.

If she doesn't want help, leave her alone. She might like the oleanders. Leave her alone. Stop meddling. Let the meddlers meddle. Besides, one thing about old people is they pass away eventually. Just be grateful it isn't a house full of screaming children with yuppie parents. I'll take junker cars and sofas any day over noise and entitlement.

Interesting how these people who are so into "morality" and religion are all about sex. What about the other commandments? Do we see those people in church all day on Sunday? No. Do they say, 'Oh dearie me!' when they are cut off in traffic? Do they never ever lie? Do they never, ever follow celebrities, practice astrology, engage in superstition? Do they never envy the guy next door who has a new car? Funny how all those commandments go by the wayside, but when it comes to sex, they're all about it.

All of the candidates are smart cookies. I just wish McCain was more for the environment. I'd cross party lines and throw the swtich for him if he can green up.

Lovely, kids are going to buy strange stuff from China because the school administration refuses to deal with the fact that little girls are encouraged to look like hookers from the age of 3 onward.

If you saw that happen to a chicken or lamb or goat, it would have been a little gross, but you'd have eaten it. There's no difference between raising a dog for food and raising a chicken for food. That's just a raw reality. It even sounds like the dog had a good time and was treated well. What I object to are tightly caged animals who suffer during their short lives before they die, cruel and inefficient slaughter methods, poor husbandry, poaching and exploitation of endangered species.

In this country, horsemeat is banned from the table. They've had to loosen it a big for zoos, because the closest thing to zebra meat is horsemeat and lions need to eat something. Horses still continue to be raced to death and premarin horses continue to be used in Canada for medicine sold here in the US. But, sentimentality prevents the meat from being used to feed people.

It makes no sense. Why is one animal more deserving of our love than another? Why not love all of them?

And what's with the Chinese being so provincial? If they want to host the world at their table, they'd better learn what we're willing to eat.

I used to be so imaginative, but I don't have an imagination anymore - well, maybe I do, but its pretty derivative. I attribute it to my desire to fit in, increase the pool of people I can date, succeed in business, and not be singled out for a schoolyard-style pummeling. I've been feeling so bereft, that I am thinking of chucking all that and returning to the fascinations of my earlier years - the Society for Creative Anachronism and science fiction conventions. I understand there is new stuff for the 21st century - Burning Man, Steampunk and various other things that the vast majority think are "nerdy".

Maybe when the house is paid off....

For those of us who have seen a fair number of shows and movies with men in drag, there is a new generation of people who have not. They'll find it just as fresh and titillating as we did when we were, oh, 16 years old. There will always be a market for it and Hollywood markets to the date night crowd (teenaged males). They call it "asses in seats". I say that its "asses" in both meanings of the word.

There's a sad thing where producers seem to believe a male comedian in drag to be more marketable than a female comedian. I'd rather see Whoopi Goldberg being a lunatic than a man in drag being a lunatic. I've seen some heavyset female comedians on Comedy Central in little segments who can be such a hoot and they get almost no air time. Roseanne( a heavyset white woman) was very lucky to get on the air at all. Even then, she went through a total body mod during the run of her program. But, they serve it and we gladly eat it.

Interestingly enough, the Monty Python crowd did drag simply because they were understaffed. They had a couple of women (Carol Cleveland, for example), but did the female roles themselves. They weren't particularly mocking, either. Some of the female drag roles (especially when Palin and Idle did them) were not unattractive at all. However, I kept wishing they could have afforded to hire a few middle aged ladies and suburban housewife types.

They're evil. They're sulphurous fart bombs on a plate. Asparagus makes your pee smell funny. Maybe guys don't care about clearing the room, but I sure do.