Amy, are you seriously complaining about Orbach's use of the royal "we"? Since when is this a legitimate complaint coming from a Broadsheet writer. You people make sweeping generalizations all the time. You couldn't speak for yourselves if you were forced at gunpoint.

As they say on the intertubes, BITCH PLEASE.

I wonder what she did for the starving adults, though.

I've been wondering where you two got to. So, hanging out here trolling Joan's posts, eh? Yeah, I guess the opinion pieces are the easiest to troll.

A word of advice though: you might want to put on some shades; the sunlight can be harsh when you crawl out from under those rocks.

AHAHA. You're so cute. I wish I had a camera right now.

I was talking about the girls at BROADSHEET, Sparky. In case you haven't noticed, they're not the best at interpreting literature or cultural issues. Everything is about feminism to them (or rather their OMG SPESHUL brand of feminism), whether or not the topic is at all relevant.

But still, nice try! Maybe reading the comments without the blinkers will help your aim next time.

Any woman who takes medical advice from a huckster like Somers deserves what she gets.

What ever happened to growing old gracefully?

DON'T pet this cat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Ys0J4rvFQ

P.S. Thanks for all the cool links!

Not to mention that the fact that, before the Industrial Revolution, MOST work was done at home. If you were a weaver, potter, cooper, chandler, tailor, etc., chances are your workshop was right there in your house, or in a building on your property. And that wife and mother was right there alongside her husband, working to support the family in whatever way she could contribute. As were the children and servants. So all this crap about how women HAD to be "stay-at-home moms" just shows a serious lack of knowledge about cultures (including our own) that predate the Machine Age.

Well, DUH!! It's based on a Neil Gaiman book; what else would you expect?

Oh, I forgot. You girls probably don't bother with Gaiman and his ilk. All that imagination dripping on you probably spoils your nail polish.

Carl Sagan said in his book Contact, "Buddhists believe their god is so great that he doesn't even need to exist."

Seems the same concept might apply His Holiness! ;)

If you don't want to friend someone, don't friend him. It's as simple as that.

OP: If this guy you're talking about is NOT a friend in real life, is not someone you care about at all, and is not someone you ever see, then what in the world is the point of letting him into your life? You're only encouraging contact from somebody you want to forget. Put it this way: if this was an ex you left for good reasons a long time ago, would you friend him then?

Didn't think so.

Bottom line - it's your page. You're under no obligation to let any particular person in. He'll just have to suck it up and deal. Life on the intertubes, baby.

We have seen the enemy and he is us.

That was Walt Kelly, writing in his comic strip Pogo. Classic phrase, which it behooves us to remember always.

That "Hurt Feelings Report" - man, what unbelievable ASSHOLES. If that's the attitude prevailing in the military, it's easy to see how all those atrocities they've been accused of, happened.

Jesus, human beings really SUCK sometimes.

...about all these Republicans being so hardheadedly, dead set against taxes. (At least, it's weird to me.)

Aren't they supposed to be Christians?

I mean, they go on and on about it. And yet, no less a figure than Jesus himself, the guy they claim to be God incarnate, TOLD them, in no uncertain terms, to pay their damn taxes! Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, he said, in reference to a question about paying taxes.

According to Jesus, God is interested in neither money nor rich people, and yet these hypocritical vampires want to have it both ways. They want to wave their supposed Christianity in everyone's faces, with the freedom to persecute anybody who doesn't agree with them. But at the same time, they want to deny almost every single thing he ever said, betraying him every day with their behavior and the way they live.

It's dishonest, hypocritical, and shameful. But then, what else should we expect?

You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here, Tracy. I mean, geez - porn fanfic about the Obamas? Who the hell cares?

Meant to type "couldn't find a way to do that".

Damn keyboard gremlins!

Made me cry like "a little bitch with a scraped knee" (to quote Jay).

By the by, does anybody know how to embed that video? I'd really like to add it to my blog, but I went over to vimeo and coulf dind no way to do that. Any advice?

When are people going to stop being surprised when a hack like Lauer doesn't take these assholes to task? I mean, after eight years of the media being lickspittle toadies, is anybody really shocked by this?