If you're getting your idea of what's normal from Karl Lagerfeld, you've got bigger problems than what some scary old gay guy has to say about fat chicks.

The sky is still blue.

Social progress in America has always been two steps forward, one step back. It's time for two more steps forward.

I disagree with Palin on pretty much everything; but this article is completely inappropriate. Everyone involved in its publication should be ashamed of themselves.

Medieval and renaissance artists made art for their rich patrons and in service to the church. 21st century artists make art for rich people and in service to multinational corporations. I don't see anything especially new or shocking about this arrangement.

Warhol isn't forever remembered as that guy who drew shoes for Woolworth's advertisements, is he?

That is all.

is that it's a very expensive and stressful way to be miserable.

You've been in school working very very hard for fourteen straight years. Take a semester or a year off to exhale and devote some energy to other things.

Once again, a perfect crystallization of a number of thoughts that were swirling around my head.

Why is Salon dignifying this screed with an interview?

Given what we know about HIV transmission--that it occurs primarily through mucous-membrane contact with blood and semen--it comes as absolutely no surprise to me that women would become infected at higher rates when they come in contact with their HIV-positive partners' blood as well as their semen.

I'm not even sure why this is remarkable.

Where does she get off being the food police?

You respect her decision not to eat animals and presumably make every effort to accommodate her food situation. She harangues you about your different choices and demands that you justify yourself.

Friendship is about meeting people halfway. It's time to tell her to drop the militant vegan bullshit if she wants to stay friends with you.