The Manager of the Department discovered we were married and ordered one of us to leave, and even accused us of trying to trick him because we had different last names.

Was that even legal? Did you check with your state's EEOC? That seems bizarre to me. I don't know maybe my work environments have been really out of the norm. At my last company, our CEO was married to the VP of sales, and they had also held similar positions in their previous company. They were sort of a team acquisition -- you hire one, you eventually get the other by default! They were a crack team, though, so you really could never say that one was hired just for their relationship rather than their competence. I was dating an engineer in my department, and I think there was at least one other couple at work, but I can't remember exactly. At my current company, I can name seven married couples off the top of my head and I know there are more married/spousal-equivalent/dating couples that I just can't think of immediately. My dad and my stepmother met at work (although they work in different parts of the company, which probably makes it easier to navigate the whole thing).

Sometime in the last 25 years or so, clothing manufacturers decided that darts were unnecessary and started making ladies' tops with "straight" fabric, no allowances for curves. The result? For the smaller-bosomed, the annoyance of front-button blouses that leave gaps to be filled with pins or snaps. For the more generously endowed, the need to stick to back-closure or pullover styles entirely, because that gap is just too big!

H&M!!! H&M makes dress shirts that are darted! Holla! They're also a little stretchy so they accommodate curves both large and miniature. I think the one I'm wearing now cost $16.

Are you out of your fucking mind??? *ONE* curtain that drapes to the floor (of my house, anyway) would cost $280! Just one curtain, forget about the other side of the window, never mind the other 13 windows in my house. Who are these people?

How about this: how about you take that $250 of that $280 and donate it to Habitat of Humanity, or Heifer.org, or Medecins Sans Frontiers, and with the $30 left over buy me a nice bottle of wine. I'll make us a delicious beef tenderloin (organic and grassfed, natch), and we'll have a nice "small footprint" Christmas dinner and actually do some good for this world.

I can't even begin to the imagine the sticking and chafing that would occur if anyone tried to use a rubber bag as a bike bag, particularly in the summer.

As an A cup woman who's otherwise normal, even voluptuous in stature, I usually can't find a bra to save my life! Add the sales women's typical attitude: "why even wear one, honey?"

Target's Junior's section, the Xhilaration label. I got a huge pile o' cute bras with matching drawers over the summer. The bands are a little stretchy, which is good for me b/c I have to go down a band size and up a cup size to get one that fits me. They all have a certain amount of "architecture", but without that awful seamed, bullet-shaped, fiberfill instaboob that the expensive department store bras all have. The necklines are nice too, I can wear shirts that are low-cut without having an inch of utilitarian beige satin peering over the top.

My all time favorite sneering quote was from a VS saleslady: "Oh we don't *make* bras that small." I'm sure all women on both ends of the big/small conundrum have heard their particular variant on that theme.

Why would the Army hand over evidence to Halliburton?

Honestly.

Last month a young married couple were both shot in the head by their ex-con neighbor after the husband got into an argument with him over owed money:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view.bg?articleid=1049181

Please learn from that.

Now that's comedy, although I wouldn't permit it on undies worn by my child, if I had one.

However, why oh why, do you give up a major spoiler such as Sam dying???

The dog scene is in one of the TRAILERS that's currently on television!

A religious believer has by their very act of belief precluded meaningful, disinterested self-analysis because they fundamentally cannot (or will not) criticize the belief itself.

Concise, to the point, brilliant!

But demonstrably false. Do you actually know anyone who is a member of a religious community? I don't mean Sunday churchgoes, but the community members themselves -- nuns, monks, priests, etc. Those are some of the most self-critical, thoughtful people around, and they are constantly analyzing their own beliefs and the nature of belief itself. Your stereotype is unfortunate, and downright insulting.