I am suspicious about this early concession to a tight race in Indiana in which areas likely to be pro-Obama have not yet been counted. Wouldn't it be neat if Obama won, after all? And then he could be like, "Oh gosh, me? I won? And I had already graciously conceded to Hillary! But I guess I won after all. Thanks, Indiana!" He's a politician, after all. No better, no worse.

If my hunch is true, in fact I wouldn't think less of Obama at all. It would be a smart campaign move. Just politics, baby. My eventual move to Obama (since I'm pretty sure he'll get the primary) is purely practical. If he can work several angles at once, good for him (and us).

I speak as I find.

The drunken pirate picture is nothing, and that woman deserves the degree she worked for. But some of the examples listed in the block-quoted portion below are just stupid. You work with kids, and you list getting drunk as a favorite activity on a public forum? Oh hell no. If these teachers aren't getting fired for being an unsavory, they sure deserve it for stupidity. Let's keep our private idiotic behavior private.

--It's also "okay" for your friends to think you're flaky and not all that interested in being their friend...because you're not.

Are you, LW? Obviously you're not interested in working for it, but you do seem sad about losing them for good. Well, the difficult thing about long-distance friendship is that casual interaction becomes a lot harder. You have to put in some effort. And other people are right, a lot of college friendships are lost over time. It's really not the end of the world if you let some of them go. But let go, already. Don't fool yourself. You either care--really care, enough to return phone calls and make visits and want to know what's going on in their lives--or you don't.

Let me just give Western men the benefit of the doubt and say that most of them probably don't want the prostitute they happen to be fucking at any given moment to have been sold into prostitution by her parents, lured there by false promises, or paying off a fake debt. Okay? So, given how many woman are working under such conditions, and how obvious it can be to suss that out, I am all for posters like these. Eyes wide open, friends.

...how many women, plural. The singular "woman" was for all women, or something meaningful like that.

It's excellent that you've had sex for money and it has all worked out. You are a lot luckier than many women who are having sex for (someone else's) money. Or do you think that trafficking is not an actual phenomenon, but a rumor cooked up by the morality police? If you can acknowledge that trafficking is real (and maybe kind of a problem!), then surely you can look beyond your experience when you consider what this campaign is actually trying to do.

Menstruation allows an unfertilized egg--a potential UNBORN BABY--go down the drain EVERY MONTH.

These people are such assholes.

You were having a hard time a couple of weeks ago, so I'm not going to give you a hard time now.

Before, when I was talking about periods, I was joking. I was being sarcastic with a capital S. I was referring to the comment in the post about how the pill kills babies. The pill prevents an egg from being fertilized. It is no more killing anything than letting an unfertilized egg leave your body during a period.

If I got pregnant, I don't think I would get an abortion. Instead, I'd give the baby to a nice gay couple who can't have a baby themselves, and then I'd go find some anti-choice protesters and thank them for opening my eyes, and I'd let them know that I was going to be making two would-be daddies very happy.

If you want to ruin your life, do that. It will make the problems you have now seem so much smaller in comparison.

Holy god, Cary: "You could present yourself to a community mental health clinic and tell the people there you're hearing voices. When they say, Are the voices directing you to harm yourself or others? you could say yes."

Perhaps Cary was joking. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. In any case, LW, do not let a professional hang a psychosis diagnosis on you, okay? Oh! Not to mention where else this piece of advice will get you, which is a hospital for two or three days. Fun like in the movies? Hardly.

I have seen it as an outsider, and that's enough.

You had an actual letter seeking advice, I know. But I forgot it when I read the above.

"cream at the top," baby!

I make my own, though, generally with 1% organic milk, and it's great. In my periodic vegan phases I yogurfy soy milk too, and it works, but it tastes about as bad as soy milk does.

Don't use ultrapasteurized milk. You'll get a sour yogurt drink that tastes fucking disgusting (to me, anyway, who never took to drinking anything milk-like).

I've done it with the range of fatted milks (except skim) and whole milk doesn't produce a consistently thicker yogurt. So if you're worried about fat for some reason, 1% is totally fine.

If you DO want it extra thick, drain it through cheesecloth or coffee filters; it works a treat.

Don't be discouraged if a couple batches don't come out right. Yogurt-making depends on how well you wrap the blankets, the temperature that day, and how good the starter culture is (I usually use a nice, whole-milk yogurt brand without a lot of stabilizers or additional ingredients, but they're not all the same).

I don't use a yogurt maker, and my yogurt is pretty mellow. Yogurt makers come out too tart for me, but if that's what you're going for, they're not expensive.