...as the most terrifying GOP candidate? I still plump for Giuliani, him being a racist fascist and all, but ma boy Huck is coming up fast...:)

There _is_ a middle ground between girls "working the pole" and being kept totally ignorant. Folks like you seem to think that the less you tell girls, the more they will be "protected" from sex. And you also seem to think that giving girls any information about sex turns them into ravening sluts. But real life has proven time and again that the opposite is true. It continues to amaze me how many parents who claim to love their daughters don't really trust them--or the judgement those same parents have worked hard to instill in their kids. Whether you like it or not, handling sexuality right is something a teen has to learn--and it's something they can't avoid or be protected from forever, as much as people like you would like them to be.

There are still a fair amount of folks who won't hire a maid because they think it 1) means one is getting "too big for one's britches" 2) is an admission of "failure" by the woman of the house. My mother is in her seventies and is a compulsive cleaner, to the point she's either miserable because the house won't stay spotless 24-7--or because she's exhausted from cleaning. But she regards hiring a maid would be admitting that she can't "keep house" like she thinks a woman should. Problem is is that the cost of a maid every two weeks would be a lot less stress than the hassle she puts herself and everyone through over cleaning. I'm wondering if this is part of the problem with the LW and husband--surely hiring cleaning help has occurred to them?

That often manifests itself in housekeeping battles. A person can be great about keeping some elements of a house clean (in the LW's case, her kids might be near-spotless, for example), but let other elements slide because they can't do them exactly "right" and therefore don't feel they have the time to do them at all.

>Some movies are just to bring your date to while you zone out for 2 hrs.<

Sooo, why aren't you two going to a movie you both might like? Even more to the point, why would you be dating a woman who'd want to see this crap, anyway?

>And how much more awesome would this movie have been with a cameo by the Blair Witch?<

Dunno how she would have "appeared," though. Would she have had what was left of the CLOVERFIELD cast standing in a corner of what was left of the Woolworth Building or something? ;)

>Apparently, according to filmmakers, not only do cities not get destroyed, unless it be NYC, but no one falls in love or gets up to hilarious hijinks anywhere else on the globe, either.<

Um, the first attack in the Spielberg WAR OF THE WORLDS took place in Newark, New Jersey, thank you. And LA got tore up nicely in both THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and VOLCANO (the latter a few years back.) Relatedly, it always amuses me (as a NJ resident) that whenever NYC gets blowed up in the movies, everyone assumes that all of New Jersey (including those parts a good 200 miles away) and upstate New York have met the same fate. ;)

>The thing would hit ground on Long Island, Brooklyn, hell, even Bayonne before heading up the East River.<

Yeah, but why wouldn't such a creature be drawn to a place with the most amount of noise/heat/lights? Anyone could tell you that that is hardly Bayonne--though it could be Newark...:)

...gonna send any of _their_ kids over there? No way in hell? Then, case closed.

Way to miss the point, dude. _Again_, for you all who can't read--if Gordon and his crew are so all-fired committed to this war, why aren't they doing more for the cause than writing propaganda? Shouldn't they be helping pony up troops--i.e., their kids--for the cause (among other things?) The answer is no, because they think everyone else should sacrifice but them. Which means they 1) don't really believe in this war; 2) are too chickenshit to risk anything to back up their beliefs. And if they don't really believe in supporting this bloodbath, why should the rest of us?

Since the war in Iraq isn't really costing you anything personally, would you make the neccessary sacrifices if they were vital to "winning" the war? Would you want your relatives to be drafted, your taxes raised, and your goods rationed? (Of course you wouldn't because as you and your ilk often make clear, sacrifice is for the "suckers and the mugs"--those too "stupid" to be born a Master of the Universe (snicker) like yourself.)

...SALON snuck this in on Monday instead of Tuesday. Nice try at avoiding the (most-likely inevitable) rotten eggs...:)

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