Are you effing kidding me? I'm all down with the flip side, with crazy, with whatever-blows-your-skirt-up, live and let live my brothas and sistas. But this was :

* Jesus god, what an overshare.

* Bloody damned creepy and gross.

* So out of place. Save it for the new-age neo-pagan motherhood-worshipping blogs.

I should've known not to click the link, but surely, I thought, SURELY that is some metaphor about how men sometimes need to be patted on the head -- this after all being the home (occasionally) of condescending misandry. No. No, it was not.

I thought I was totally done with Salon when they ruined a show for me with SPOILERS on the FRONT PAGE NEWS WIRES, but the loony high-flown wackadoo goodness that is Camille lured me back. But now this? Great flaming lords of Kobol, you people have gone 'round the damned bend. I am *out of here.*

Robespierrette, glad to hear somebody else thinks of this as "quadriboob." Gad, the bane of my lingerie-buying existence. Why in the world would they put a big thick seam -- or worse, a band of elastic -- right there?

I personally haven't had any skin reactions, but I've definitely noted that VS sizing (depending on the cut and style) is frequently WAY off. They seem to be intentionally designed for spillage, which, to my eye, looks ick with just the bra and a thousand times worse under clothes. I've got a great big huge (DDD?) list of bra-design grievances...to the degree that if I were a bit more accomplished as a seamstress, I'd be making my own.

A group of people fight long and hard to get to be part of the majority -- "on the inside." In America right now, the majority -- the insiders -- are portrayed as being hard-working, patriotic, and opposed to gay marriage. Once you finally, finally make it to The Inside, why would you immediately jeopardize your insider status by supporting a position that's wildly unpopular in a great portion of the majority? You'd just get kicked out again, or at least it'd certainly seem so.

You have to demonstrate that you belong with the insiders before you can get any props for being a maverick. Just ask John McCain.

I'm from California, and I'm absolutely humiliated that this despicable, hateful and patently unfair measure passed in our (allegedly liberal) state. I'm hopeful that our incoming administration, our new congress, and our courts will address this issue in short order. But as far as the general public goes, mikemc is right: it'll just take time. And even in the worst-case scenario, I don't think it'll take all that long. Certainly that's not much consolation for those who are being legally discriminated against today, but they should take heart, as should we all, that society is tending to open its arms (without coercion) to new insiders in a shorter and shorter amount of time.

I am patently unpersuadable that Jesse Jackson's tears were anything but genuine. At 36, and often (at least for the past eight years) awfully cynical, at least as far as politics are concerned, I would never have expected that I'd feel such an intellectual and emotional investment in a presidential election. But my own tears -- from the time the race was called for Obama, until he'd finished his speech and left the stage -- were genuine, too.

Combative and disdainful chest-thumping lizard-brained right-wingers, I'll now proudly join you in shouting "USA! USA!" at the top of my damned lungs.

Thank you, Obama. Thank you, Biden and Plouffe and Axelrod and the hordes of volunteers. Hail to the chief.

It seemed awfully clear to me, even on first read, that Specter's comment was yet another reiteration of the "Bradley Effect," about which much fuss has been made lately. If that's the case, then yes, his words could easily be interpreted to mean that he was "hoping for racism."

First, it took over 30 seconds after hitting "submit" to get any results at all. BOO to the grid, which means fewer results per page. BOO to putting a (completely unrelated) picture next to each result -- seriously, *COMPLETELY* unrelated, and not from anywhere on our site.

Slow, dumb, lame results. That's a site I'll never visit again.

Not when you're comparing it to DVDs. I don't even own a tv -- the few things I watch, I watch online. Occasionally, that means buying episodes from iTunes - including three seasons' worth of Battlestar Galactica. And I'm telling you...I wish I'd bought the DVDs instead, for what, ten dollars more? Low resolution, bad masking, bad cropping, seemingly randomized aspect ratios (widescreen, not widescreen, repeat)...frustrating, to say the least.

I also can't really see prices skyrocketing - and staying there. BitTorrent is less mysterious than ever to the GenPub, and if HBO or anybody else tries to push that ceiling to $4 or $5 an episode for a fifty-some-odd minute drama, what we'll be seeing is *not* a rise in profits for the offending network, but a rise in torrent downloads.

For people who don't have cable and want to watch episodes as they're released, sure, make them available online at pretty much the same per-episode price you'd pay with DVD...as long as they're of comparable quality. Most people aren't willing to pay a premium for crap.

"...(including those shadowy outfits whose principle business is smuggling weapons and other contraband..."

The MSNBC.com story in question was enough to make me remove that site from my bookmark toolbar. Morons. Great job clarifying their blunders, as always.