Didn't bother buying them... borrowed a couple, and read the last two in the book store.

They were ok. I did not share Bella's love for Edward, I found him annoying. I preferred Jacob until he got psycho abusive. But even that was hotter than Edward. Edward... was lame.

I guess I have no patience for guys who date girls and then disappear, and then come back and expect to be taken back.

I really, really want at least one daughter. If and when I get pregnant, of course I will love it either way. But I'm the eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter.... how cool would it be if I had an eldest daughter?

But boys are good, too.

I think people may not have been as enthusiastic about the author's second kid, because it was his second kid.

The models are paid peanuts compared to what the website/magazine is making. Basically, unless she owns the website or magazine, she is getting naked so someone ELSE can make a lot of money off of HER naked body.

Of course artists can do whatever they like. And of course there are social problems that should be explore.

But when white bread suburban High Schools make kids read, "I know why the Caged bird Sings", "The Color Purple", and "The Bluest Eye"... what kind of ideas do you think these kids are going to take away about black people, particularly black men? Don't these books kind of reinforce the notion that black men are sexual predators?

When "Not without my daughter" and "A thousand splendid suns" get passed around a book clubs, don't they kind of reinforce the idea that muslim men are psycho?

Just sayin'.

These books are great reads, and the problems in them are real, but when they form such a large part of the mainstream literature about ethnic groups, they contribute to reinforcing stereotypes.

And if it is a story about a lesbian, she gets gang-raped, especially if she is butch.

Cheesy as it was, that's why I liked "Will and Grace". Will was a yuppie lawyer who happened to be gay. A lot of the gay books/movies/plays have the "Woe is me! I am gay! Listen to the tragic tale of my coming out and subsequent being rejected by the world!"

Not that discrimination is not a problem, but I like seeing stories where the person's whole personality isn't that they are a tragic gay figure.

Literature by black women often features being poor in the south and being raped by a relative. It seems like a disproportionate number of these books feature the incest theme.

My theory is that white consumers, the largest group, like to read about other races being abusive and horrible. It makes us feel superior.

Books about Muslim women tend to feature abusive husbands, for example.

We get to read these books and think, "I'm glad I'm not a black woman getting raped by a relative, or a Muslim woman getting beaten up by her husband." Then we get to feel happy and secure in our white suburbaness.

I'm glad you like cunnilingus, but seriously.

Don't write articles like this one, she doesnt want 'em.

Kenbert or whoever, the one who is saying the KKK raped her. Yeah, it took me a couple posts to figure it out, too... I'm a bit slow tonite!

He is making fun of liberal attitudes about rape and poverty.

I think most people are going to assume they are safe on school grounds. I think most people are going to assume they are safe after a couple of drinks... yes, it lowers your reflexes and makes you more of a target, but is everyone saying she shares the responsibility a complete teetotaler? Of all places, a school dance should be a safe one.

Are you joking? Being poor gives you a free pass at raping someone?

These guys need to go to jail. For life.

A way we can send her flowers, chip in on her medical expenses or legal fees?

That's not over-intellectualizing, it is WAY under. Unoriginal, uncreative. For some reason, omnivores think it creates an "Oh gotcha!" It doesn't. They seem to think they are the first to have thought of it. They aren't. They think it is clever of them. It isn't.

I have one request to all the veggie-baiters out there... creativity, please.

The answer to the question is that more plants die to create meat products to feed a person than they do if they directly go to feed the person. If you eat a cow, you are also eating all the plants that went to feed the cow. Like Renfield eating a puppy... he also would have been eating cats, birds, spiders and flies.

So by eating vegetarian, LESS plants die.

Let's hear another original one, like "What if you were stranded on a desert island with nothing but a steak, would you eat it?" Please, ask me that one. I haven't heard it lately.

Ghosts, witches, mutilated bodies, goblins, vampires, fairies (the unseelie sort)... that is what halloween is about.

Screw the crayolas, politicians, firemen, princesses, etc.

Halloween should be SPOOKY!!!

So were cigarettes and coffee.

They were very thorough.

I seriously doubt these girls didn't get anti-alcohol education. The problem isnt a lack of programs, but that the programs don't work.

The combination of her need for "passion" and the fact that she divorced a perfectly nice guy worries me. Sounds like she needs the thrill of new relationships.

Unless the person is genuinely horrid, there is no reason to hate them or to break up the family unit. If she's just a bit bored and annoyed, she needs to look to herself to bring a bit of spark back into her life. Sometimes life is a bit dull. That doesn't mean we dump our family members!