But I'm afraid I don't know much about her music career. In profile, though, she reminds me a lot of a young Patti Smith.

Salon actually ran a story on this more than four years ago:

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/02/27/pregnancy_death/index.html

You bill your site as the "online home of political realists". But, judging from the counter at the bottom of the page, your site isn't the online home of anything. I'll bet most of those hits are people like me, who went to your site after reading one of your unglued-from-reality posts, and had a good laugh.

I think your first paragraph is the most telling. You seem to be another one of those people who has a child, becomes a raving conservative, and demands that all US policy exist to preserve your precious genes.

How many 2-year-old Iraqi children have been killed in this mess? How many of their parents? Twenty beheaded bodies found today. Oh well, war isn't pretty.

Of all the females on the Food Network, I can think of only one (Sarah Moulton) who is actually a chef. (I wonder why that is - there doesn't seem to be any shortage of actual trained male chefs.) Of the rest, it seems to be kind of equally divided between normal/frumpy looking (Ina Garten, Paula Deen, Robin Miller, Ellie Krieger) and those who show more curves/cleavage (Rachael Ray, Sandra Lee, Giada DiLaurentiis).

As you can tell, I watch a lot of Food TV. It's my kind of porn.

is practically word for word identical to arguments you're seeing all over the internet today, showing how little originality is left in the neocon wing of the republican party. It's the smell of desperation hanging heavy and fetid in the humid July air.

Convicted felon. Convicted felon. Convicted felon. Just keep repeating this, because it's what Libby is - four times over. There are a lot of places where a person gets locked up for good after committing three felonies. I guess Libby must have gotten a special discount for committing them all at the same time.

The great majority of Americans understand what's going on here, "Anonymous". And it doesn't sit well with us.

Convicted felon.

Convicted felon.

Convicted felon.

Nothing "alleged" about it.

I know this hurts, "Anonymous", but it's for your own good.

Please correct your article. You refer to "embryos" and "eggs", but the BBC article clearly says that the mother has frozen her eggs. There don't appear to be any embryos involved here.

An innovative, prolific artist with a lasting body of work has passed away. But people who enjoyed and appreciated his work can't even talk about it because the very act of doing so belittles those who don't like it? Is that how this works?

it's only infertile people who are being asked why they don't adopt. Why not ask those who already have one, as in, "Hey, why don't you just adopt your next one?" But, no one does that, do they? Why don't we ask that couple in Arkansas who just had their 17th kid?

I think it's pretty obvious that most children who are adopted are adopted by infertile couples, probably after going through some form of ART. I think infertile couples who adopt deserve a lot of credit for making that decision.

I had lots of conflicting feelings when I was going through the infertility saga. I did feel guilty that I was using medical resources for such a "selfish" goal. So, those of you who are anonymously tossing off your blanket condemnations, please try to remember that we are human. What if it was your best friend who was going through this? Would you be so ugly to her face?

In the end, I decided not to go through with IVF. When I looked at the day-by-day description of what would be involved, I started to cry. It was just too much. And, yes, it was my decision more than my husband's, since every single thing that would be done would be done to my body. I just couldn't go through with it.

And I'm still 100% pro-choice. I had two very short-lived pregnancies, and both of those times made me realize that no one should ever be pregnant if they don't want to or aren't prepared.

There aren't any books about the dangers of alcohol? No movies or anything like that about alcoholics? Funny, but I can think of at least a dozen off the top of my head.

No my question wasn't rhetorical.

But, my question wasn't, "Why don't fertile couples adopt?".

My question was, "Why aren't fertile couples ever asked why they don't just adopt?", they way infertile couples are always asked.

For the time being, it seems that infertile couples are supposed to adopt all of the unwanted kids out there, and be damn glad to do it.

And she's only 25! We sure chew 'em up and spit 'em out fast these days!

What a sad, sad train-wreck of a performance. And it's not the extra weight. She's still probably slimmer than half of the couch potatoes in America. It's the utter joylessness she exhibited. A few half-hearted pelvic thrusts, some limp girl-on-girl action - she might as well have been sleepwalking.

That drowning moose analogy is pretty horrifyingly apt. Yes, I suppose she is complicit in her own public humiliation, but I really wonder if she has any awareness of this.