According to the article, home designers kept making a combination mud room and laundry room, where muddy shoes would be literally bumping up against clean laundry. After talking to women, these designers realized the error of their ways, and now have separate mud rooms to keep our laundry safe.

I'm skeptical, of course. Did men like having muddy clothing? I think not. Simply talking to anyone -- man or woman -- who uses such a room would have yielded that nugget of wisdom.

There's a lot about Japanese culture I don't understand -- the hyperviolent, hypersexual comic books, for example. However, I do understand that Japan's population trends (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5132024.stm) are just a tad bit different from ours.

I don't ever expect Traister to think outside her microscopic box, and she didn't fail to disappoint in this case.

Proctor: What's the most important right of citizenship?

Me: Well, I want to say the right to vote, but with only about a third of eligible citizens voting in the last election, it's hard to characterize...

Proctor: Just say, "The right to vote."

Me: The right to vote.

It's either the excessive partisan division and rancor... or the startling and unrelenting incompetence in the prosecution of the war. One or the other.

I can't for the life of me understand why, if the majority of U.S. service personnel have died in Sunni-inspired violence, why the government is concentrating so hard on the origin of Shia weapons and cash. Why can't someone in the MSM ask the Decider if there's any evidence that Saudi cash is being used to arm Sunnis?

I wrote some pretty cringe-worthy poetry as an undergrad. If I ever decline to testify in front of Congress, can I expect to see it resurrected here?

The subhead asks the question. The story fails to answer it.

There's way to much conflation going on. As has already been pointed out, "immigrants" and "illegal immigrants" are not the same thing. But there are two other highly suspect bits of confation going on in this article:

1) "crime" and "violent crime" -- crime doesn't have to be violent in order to either be a crime or have a victim. Identity theft is a good example.

2) "violent crime" and "murder" -- the last I checked, there were drugs (and not just prescription ones) pouring over our southern border. If those drug runners aren't killing people in disproportionate ratios to people who were born in this country, then great. But let's not pretend that they're not engaged in violent crime.

Even if you're willing to ignore the logical leaps that Sampson makes in the article, where's the data to back him up?

It's hard to break out that precise figure, because of the uncertainty. First of all, we're not even allowed, because there are certain restrictions placed on our research, to ask about someone's immigration status.

After that admission, I have no idea why I should pay attention to anything Sampson has to say on the issue.

I'm not afraid to vote for Hillary because of what it might say about me as a man. I'm not apt to vote for Hillary because we've had six years of a polarizing president, and we don't need another four.

Let's please nip this "not voting for Hillary = sexist" meme right now.

Maybe it would be better if restaurant health inspections resulted only in posted warnings, which consumers could feel free to ignore. And product safety could be a voluntary thing, too -- people should be able to make informed choices about whether their kids' cheap pajamas can easily catch fire or not.

When it comes right down to it, though, we're closer to Glenn's world than we'd like to think. All those prime-time commercials hawking prescription drugs -- you know the ones with the happy people doing fun things where they don't even tell you what condition the drug is for -- are aimed squarely at us, not doctors. Then we're supposed go badger our doctors until they give us the drugs. Who cares if Zelnorm is for women? I feel twisted inside!

This particular quotation has made the rounds of the left blogosphere many times, but it bears repeating here:

"For us to call this a victory and to commend the President of the United States as the Commander in Chief showing great leadership in Operation Allied Force is a farce." --Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

Sounds dangerously close to saying it's not a victory, which is dangerously close to saying it's a loss, which is dangerously close to treason.

I'm dangerously close to thinking Delay is full of crap.

That's not even close to being true. If this is as important as he says it is, commit 500,000 troops to establish order in Iraq. Stop using suplemental spending when you know damn well that the war is going to cost you money during the fiscal year. Light a fire under Condi's ass to establish at least the groundwork of a diplomatic solution. And don't conflate tactics (like the surge) with strategy (like what Tehran has and we so obviously lack).

Why do they call it "retirement" when politicians decide not to run for re-election? The implication is that the job somehow belongs to them by default.

Movements -- intellectual, philosophical, literate, what have you -- don't last forever. Realism gave way to post-realism, which we ended up calling modernism, which gave way to post-modernism, which we haven't got around to renaming yet.

Feminism, as a critical theory, can't be expected to remain intact for 40+ years. At some point, there's enough of a change that we enter a post-feminist period. That doesn't mean that feminism "won" or "lost" -- it just means that the label isn't as relevant to the current crop of thinkers as it was to the previous crop.

Get over it. Ideas change, language changes, society changes. The only thing that remains constant is a pedantic clinging to ideas we held dear as college seniors.