After all, Victoria's Secret's market position is HUGE, and that company's ads make these Reebok spots look pretty tame.

VS makes print and tv ads that show impossibly beatiful young women posing and prancing in barely-there underwear. Who likes to look at such women dressed in such ways? Heterosexual men.

But heterosexual men are obviously not the people to whom VS hopes to sell its wares. It is trying to convince women that if they buy these bras and these panties, then men will respond to them the same way they respond to the little hotties in the ads.

The principle behind the Reebok ads is almost certainly the same.

I will not be surprised at all if these shoes start selling like hotcakes.

There were shoes in the ads, right?

I hardly know what to say.

I logged in to write something very similar to this:

My beautiful 43 year-old wife gets ready for sex by taking a shower and getting into bed naked. Not exactly the space mission.

All my beautiful, 46-year-old wife has to do caress the hair on the back of my head.

I follow Carrie's blog, and I love what she says about the critics of her appearance, particularly this (http://tr.im/A80H):

I was hot when most people are hot—- in my fucking 20’s & part of my 30’s……THEN, in an effort to imitate humans, I had a child &, to further maintain my life like disguise, I took medications for about 9 thousand years, &, despite all my efforts, I continued to get older & older——inadvertently, I assure you———-I tried to arrest my development physically as WELL as emotionally, but unfortunately without as much success. I also must confess that I ate food. I’m sorry….. I realize that I promised never to eat anything but lettuce & sun flower seeds, but tragically, I was unable to keep my promise.

Yes, I realize…..I KNOW that I vowed to exercise for 3 hours a day—-aerobics, pilates AND yoga, but alas, I admit with a large quota of shame, that I failed to fulfill this other important commitment.

NO, I shouldn’t look as if 30 years have passed. I understand completely if you can’t find it in your heart to forgive me for looking like 3 decades have passed…….Of COURSE you should mock & belittle me for being so large!! What else could you POSSIBLY do?????!? I’ve let you down by treating my body as though it were just some giant sad sack that I use to haul my personality around. You have every right to compare me to Yoda or Elton or Kirstie…….I’ve brought it on myself.

But here’s this thing that I found myself wondering………what the fuck do YOU look like??!

How can you not adore this woman?

Medicare should help that 65-year-old teabagger get his stump attended to.

I'm starting to think funny might be back.

I have been sorta, kinda looking forward to "Community" since I first saw the promo a couple of months ago.

Now, I am totally looking forward to it.

Thank you, Aaron.

I have been married eight years, and I love my wife more today than I did the day we took our vows. And I know that I will love her more tomorrow than I do today.

She complains sometimes about her post-baby belly. She thinks it turns me off. I don't even notice it. That's not exactly true. Of course I know it's there. I just don't care. She's the most beautiful woman God ever made, belly or no belly; black hair or gray; laugh lines, tear streaks, you name it, I love all of it. All of it is part of who she is, and I am all in.

I am better married than I was single. That's because my wife brings out the best in me. And she is the absolute love of my life.

As you say, marriage is great... as long as you love the person you're married to.

Seriously. Huh?

Seriously, Mr. Steele. Don't let anybody dissuade you from trying to exploit Hip Hop culture to build a Republican majority. You're definitely on to something.

Not only are you guaranteed to bring new blood (and Crips!) into the party, the GOP base will love it. I'm thinking of people like those yahoos who distributed the Obama Bucks food stamp gag back during the presidential campaign. Oh, imagine the newsletter articles and e-mail feedback your "off the hook" gangsta PR campaign will generate. Yeahz, boyyyyy!

This is a win-win.

Damn the cynics! Full speed ahead!

Obviously a rhetorical question, but still...

Glenn Beck is so stupid, he makes Sean Hannity look smart.

He's so crazy, he makes Bill O'Reilly look sane.

Beck is like your paranoid schizophrenic drunk uncle who KNOWS-FOR-A-FACT that the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood movie set. Nothing and no one can convince him that WHAT-HE-KNOWS is wrong.

The only difference is, your crazy drunk uncle doesn't get paid millions of dollars a year to rant incoherently on the teevee.

And, unlike that thug who just left, his jokes tend be funny, rather than just mean and stupid.

I can breathe again.

Seriously?

Having grown up in the south, (Texas and Louisiana), I have never thought of pie as a second-rate dessert. I would take a slice of pecan pie over chocolate cake after any meal.

Granted, even down here, cake dominates at weddings and birthday parties, but I think that's mainly because, especially for parties, it is either:

• easier to make; or

• cheaper to buy.

I mean, think about the last office party for somebody's birthday or retirement that did not involve a big sheet cake from the Walmart bakery. You can't feed pie to 20 people for less money than one of those sugary messes.

No, pie is special and entirely respectable, and I won't hear another word about it.