Why does everyone have to be beautiful all the damn time? I am not beautiful, but that's fine--I'm not required to be beautiful to have a good life. Most people I see are fine--average--not beautiful, not ugly. Why isn't that okay?

I think I saw this sentiment above, but this campaign doesn't do anything to move the standards of self-worth away from superficial appearance.

I'll never do it again, I give you my word!

Isn't it kind of sad that the career this LW might have spent his/her whole life dreaming about is collapsing? Sure, journalism won't die, but it looks and will continue to look nothing like the journalism adults grew up with. Isn't that sad? It may be totally hip and cool to pretend you love change, but generation after generation mourning its old way of life tells me we crave stability.

As for you, LW, my sympathy for you personally went way down with that whole "DUIs are such an inconvenience!" thing. Maybe learn a lesson here and be glad you didn't hurt someone.

I agree with pervious posters that borderline and bipolar share characteristics and get confused with each other, but that's because they both make people uncomfortable, they are both exciting, and they are both overdiagnosed. And they are both resistant to treatment, but both treatable. Nevertheless--if the mom isn't onboard, the father has a duty to protect his children away from her.

Batten down the hatches! Redouble your efforts to restrict the rights of gays and women! It is your only answer to this latest embarrassment!

The first line of the article made me sadder about STL's divorce than my own parents'. And then I reined in my sanity.

I haven't found the South Side a hotbed, or even a coolbed, of antisemitism.

sorry.

Sorry, lefties, your blind righteous anger about Israel breeds anti-semitism. (Don't remember many of you bitching about the almost certain genocide that was happening in Sri Lanka last month.)

They are not behind *this* disaster. So they will probably be calling it terrorism.

Isn't that comment actually more insulting toward Obama? How weak does a man have to be to let "them Jews" tell him who he can and can't talk to? Although I guess Wright assumes that they have that kind of power because of all the media and banks they control. Clever, clever Jews. Makes me proud to be one.

And get the fuck out of Kansas.

As a frequent, occasionally drunk, visitor. Maybe I was lucky, probably this book cherrypicked.

I'm sure as she lovingly (/creepily) made herself over, through plastic surgery and irresponsible fertility treatments, in the image of actual celebrity Angelina Jolie, then very publicly spawned 8 sick babies, then hired herself an agent, she saw nothing but red carpets and glitter in her future.

Most people think about it at least once in their life. Or every day for a while. Honestly, I don't understand how anybody manages to avoid fantasies about dying, period.

There's a difference between thinking and doing. Think away, LW, but if your parents are alive and fulfilled their basic duties to you, you owe it to them to stick around. This goes double if you have children yourself.

It may be "normal," but it sucks. Do whatever you need to do to make yourself feel better, and stop worrying about your level of success at this point in your life. You've got a long way to go and a lot of time to make it.

Fuck 'em.

and the reason I won't have children. Some family genes I really don't want to pass on, and then feel like a horrible parent for the rest of my life. I'm really sorry, LW--your situation legitimately sucks.

But I love them. Messy, dirty, stratified, overpriced, mixed up, apartment-living, don't need a car cities. And I'm a real American.

I would have been all up in that shit if I were little! Children. (Mostly. Girls.) Play. House.

The ban would be unsustainable. I know, I know--leave your home country--not realistic. But a nice dream.

If 100% (give or take .1) of men look at porn, 1 in 10 is positively epidemic.

LW, if you are being honest with yourself about your "voices," if they really aren't causing you distress, I would think hard before seeking out a diagnosis that is probably more harmful than the benign symptoms you're experiencing.

There are other people out there like you--people who may or may not be experiencing "psychotic" symptoms but who prefer to handle whatever they are themselves. As long as you are able to live your life the way you want to, who cares?

Some people believe in god(s). I think those people's brains are different than mine. I don't think either of us has a mental illness.

covered this story, too. Yes, the comedy show "covered" the story like an actual news outlet. Because comedy shows are now the outlets for thoughtful journalism.

Overturn Roe v. Wade. We'll see how "pro-life" the majority really is.

Rather than you going back and forth over whether she is fulfilling enough for you. I'm sure she knows she isn't.

"Yet I'm deathly worried that I can't say no to reconciliation, but that yes means a lifetime of regret and diminished expectations. Do I then have to readjust my hopes and move on?"

I want to say, yes, you have to readjust your hopes and move on, since you have kids and your diminished expectations are your own business. But unfortunately, you sound like the kind of guy that would moan around forever resenting everyone and ultimately pass that misery on to your children.

So get a divorce already. You're right--they'll be terribly hurt. At least it's a common hurt.

Still glad Obama won!

The Daily Show wasn't as kind.