Why is the forum for the RU-486 topic closed?

I do vote. So stick it pollsters!

for those under 35 who are not married or got a divorce from a starter marriage. I think it is plain that women over 35-40 who are single/divorced/gay AND childless are invisible to pollsters and candidates. Cause god forbid a woman over 35 think about anything that doesn't involve childrearing issues.

"single" women as defined by me (and most likely the pollsters) do not vote because we know that the politicians don't care- about us or frankly anyone else, except their lobbyists. The ones to the far right are no help on contraception and reproductive rights, not to mention their suffocating "moral values". The ones on the left, which is hardly left, would rather not state their stances on this too loudly either.

Not that these are the only issues of importance to us singletons. But that is what they see. And while single women of color or who identify as lesbian have a built-in community to draw from - and to be pandered to by politicians, straight single white women are no one to these guys (and Hillary). Because we are not a niche or a specific special interest group, there's no foothold for them.

Giuliani reminds me of plenty of Italian daddies I've known over the years - "Do as I say, not as I do." Catholic when convenient - at ethnic parades. Mysogenistic to make himself king of the castle, "I know what's best for you, no room for debate." He's a disgrace.

I don't care if you cheat on your wife, marry your cousin or have an intern on her knees in the Oval Office - just don't act like you have a lock on "values" and "morals" and dictate those to the country.

...is ridiculously high. Good to know that Salon women are/have been hot or just "really pretty". But of course their hard work and merit is what really got them whereever they are today. And the men are incredibly unjudgemental, love their older, wrikled wives and apparently do not check out the breasts of their waitress/babysitter/daughter's friend. The overall smugness covered as "honesty" is appalling.

In fucking up the bellcurve, I am the unattractive Salon reader. Perhaps this is why I don't subscribe (You do know attractive people make more money, don't you?). People do not notice me when I walk into a room. I don't get guys asking me for my phone number or following me around the grocery store. I have a good personality though and other talents, so I'm not throwing a pity party. I have friends, I have had significant others, I have a life.

However I do know how attractive people get treated and that they take it for granted. To badly paraphrase Molly Ivins, it's like you were born on third and think you hit a triple. You get service at the bar/restaurant quicker. People hold doors open for you. Now that the looks are fading, you will get to see how someone like myself lives. Maybe you'll realize how little of yourself you might have developed or revealed to others because you've never needed to attract people, they come to you. Or how much time you've invested in your appearance. Something tells me though, that you will not become "ugly" overnight, that the door of attractiveness will not slam in your face immediately. At least you'll have time to get used to it, instead of always being on the outside. And time to moisturize.

really salon? this is it? cause i'm not feeling a vast majority of this list.

There are different kinds of bamboo, including the runner kind that will spread rapidly and wildly, and can only be stopped by deep trenches and concrete barriers. But there are other kinds of bamboo, I think called clumping, that I have used in my backyard.

about bamboo floors. They are beautiful, but very delicate and scratch rather easily. a big bummer. especially since they were advertised at lowes as hardwood and durable. not to mention their home installation service was a nightmare, but that's another story.

He mentions Enoch in one sentence, alluding to it as if we all knew what it was about, and with vague regret. That's why the review says nothing about it.

What I found interesting about Clapton is that he really was happier being a sideman. And given his recitation of his childhood and his personality as shaped by it, it shouldn't come as a surprise that he was a shy, awkward guy who let drugs steer his emotional life. I think we forget in our "Oprah" age that many people did not self-examine their emotions and decisions, and/or did not have the language to do so. Ithink that is why 12 step was such a revelation to him. He mentions that only in America is alcoholism considered a disease, whereas in England/Europe he says it is considered more of a moral failing.

Overall, Clapton strikes me as a nice enough bloke, kinda like the collegiate professor he looks like now. What I did also find fascinating in the book was his explanation of how he met and married his much younger, non-famous/supermodelish wife. I think it says alot about who the man is.

I would also highly recommend reading Pattie Boyd's book "Wonderful Tonight" which came out a few weeks ago. It was fascinating to see how these two remembered themselves and each other. We forget, given time and the legend status applied to Clapton and Boyd (as an irrestible siren to rock stars) that these are just two awkward people with f'ed up upbringings whose existance for many years revolved around drug use. Unlike now, there wasn't a DARE movement or TV promos about drugs being bad. This generation pioneered popular drug use in many ways, informing wide swathes of mass culture.