Just because "roofies" per se don't exist does not mean that some creepers don't go out of their way to get other people ridiculously drunk. My mom tells me that in college, she attended a party where the host decided to offer mixed drinks with a hefty, and conveniently unmentioned, dose of Everclear. My mom had two drinks and remembers nothing after that. It was just her good luck that her two best guy friends (one of whom would later become her husband, and my dad... the other of whom is gay) got her out of that situation and back to her home.

Just because guys aren't slipping 'drugs' into women's drinks doesn't mean that they aren't occasionally contributing, one way or another, to women's incapacitation via alcohol.

It is still incomprehensible to me why a person would turn first to the victim to dole our responsibility rather than the guy who, uh, you know, RAPED someone who was passed out. It is only considered "irresponsible" to get drunk in our culture because the world is full of disgusting creeps who are willing to take advantage of women in vulnerable positions by raping them.

You're putting the wrong emphASis on the wrong syllABle. First we should work on the bastards who rape people, which is a crime and a moral abomination, and stupid, rather than people who get drunk off their asses, which is stupid, but morally neutral and legal.

Waaaaaah.

I guess the FBI is useful for something other than infiltrating "socialist" civil rights groups and wiretapping law-abiding citizens.

But make no mistake, the fact that the FBI found out about and rescued 52 child prostitutes is no cause for celebration. It's horrifying to even try to speculate the number of child prostitutes and other sex slaves in this country that haven't been rescued and probably never will be.

If by "broad bipartisan consensus" she means simply herself, then yes, maybe she's right. But she was the only Republican who had openly supported the so-called trigger option. So unless she was planning to do some hardcore, behind-the-scenes string-pulling of her fellow Republicans, which is unlikely, she is just talking out her ass with her alleged "deep disappointment" about an opt-out vs. trigger public plan.

Don't be too sure about that. Most religions have been viewed with skepticism by mainstream people when they first start out (as a Christian, I'll be the first to admit that this is true for Christianity and definitely for particular sects of it such as the LDS).

Religious legitimacy is just a function of existence and time. A hundred years later, how many Mormons are dissuaded from their beliefs by the fact that Joseph Smith was a snake oil salesman?

We must be careful how we treat Scientology, because persecution, either real or perceived, can also serve to strengthen a fringe cult, even if it is really a business hiding under the guise of a religion in avoid taxes.

Is that such an argument ignores the fact that pet food is produced using waste material and byproducts of the production of human food. The livestock being raised for pet food isn't. It is being raised for human consumption, and the bits we don't like to eat get processed into pet food.

In other words, it still comes back down to human consumption. Rover's just cleaning up for us.

Couldn't've happened to nicer people.

I say "1-35W Bridge."

This is a fun game.

I live in Saint Paul (the city proper, not a suburb) in Minnesota. I do know quite a lot of people who operate the way our household does, with worm compost and recycling and so on, but that is probably a function of the fact that I know most of my Saint Paul friends and colleagues through progressive churches, non-profit organizations, and a common interest in social justice causes. Most of the people I know well here in the Twin Cities utilize CSAs, food co-ops, drive sensible cars or bike/walk/use public transportation, recycle, etc. I do have to say, it's easier to do this living in a city. I am originally from a smallish town in Montana, where it is considered much more "weird" to do things like recycle and compost and eat exclusively organic/local.

But even in the city I think those of us who really live environmentally-conscious lifestyles are still in the minority. I love and appreciate nature because I grew up in the mountains, but I think living in small towns the way many Americans do gives them a false sense of being removed from the process of creating pollution and other environmental problems. So it's not surprising that it's mostly city folk who try to live sustainably - the evidence of pollution is hard to deny when you're breathing it and stepping in it every day.

No better than Gary Kamiya's sexual fantasizing over Palin before the election.

All this does is give more press to a book that should be released with as little buzz and hype as possible.

If someone wrote this about a ditzy male politician and involved a reference as to who he had thought about "blowing" at some point in his earlier career, this would never have been published.

[I]f couples are caught gyrating, lights will be turned up or the music changed to Burt Bacharach or William Shatner singing 'Mr. Tambourine Man.'

Wish my high school'd had something like that. Would have saved my eyes from a lot of pain.