A few weeks back soon after Libby was indicted, I surfed the headlines on the major TV news sites.

CNN: Libby Indicted

MSNBC: Libby Indicted

ABC News: Libby Indicted

CBS News: Libby Indicted

and FOX:

Libby Resigns

They're not even pretending anymore...

Somebody is buying evil shoes, and 6-inch is pretty tame.

I present as evidence: punitiveshoes.com

Or just google "ballet boots".

I just want to state that these "fatherhood initiatives" might be confused with, or might even include, male-involvment programs. These programs try to bring the father, or perhaps some other male figure, back into the lives of children lacking a father figure for whatever reason. They have nothing to do with marriage and they seem to be tremendously helpful to children. These are good programs and shouldn't be tainted with this marriage hullaballoo.

I read "Ask the Pilot" to learn about flying from the perspective of someone involved in the business. It doesn't have to be all facts: opinions are welcome too. Do I agree with everything? Of course not, but I still value the information. Keep up the good work, you elitist motherf**cker!

About Reagan National:

My father, a staunch Republican, made a very good argument that the closest airport to the capital of the USA should not be named for anyone. Most people from DC (my hometown) agree with this, regardless of party loyalty. Unfortunately, the GOP declared Reagan dead in the early nineties and decided to name everything they could after him. My dad and I concocted a plan to make cheapo plaques and christen various Ronald Reagan Dumpsters and Ronald Reagan Porta-Potties in retaliation, but we never followed through. Someone should do this for Baby Bush.

About That Smell:

I think it's hydraulic fluid. I'm sure that's the strong smell at the entrance to the plane, but since it's very viscous I'm sure it permeates everything eventually. Maybe it's a combo of hydraulic fluid and "new car smell", i.e. the vapors that come off of the molded plastic they use for nearly everything in a plane.

It was fun! Nuff said.

Well, I'll say one more thing. For years I've been reading critics (rightly) slam action movies with little or no plot. But when an action movie comes along that tries to pack in as much plot as the action, it is slammed for doing just that much. None of us is bothered if we miss a some of the action in a movie -- so what's the big deal about missing some of the plot?

...but for the wrong person.

My cure for screaming babies: Two benadryl, three ibuprofen, and a memory foam neck pillow. For me, of course. And if the screaming still gets to me, I just grit my teeth and think about the good karma mileage points I'm earning.

... for calling DCA Washington-National. Even my father -- a staunch Republican -- was against naming it after Reagan. "The airport serving the Nation's Capital shouldn't have *anyone's* name attached to it", he would say, and I agree.

If someone were to produce data showing that, say, 95 percent of women under 30 who had tubal ligation regret the decision and want the procedure reversed (it can be reversed, can't it?), then the doctors would have stronger ground to stand on. But if no study exists, then the doctors are basing these decisions on their own opinions, not fact. This falls into the realm of bad medicine in my book, not just mere paternalism.

If the author's "tween" days were little over a decade ago, and her daughter is 11, i.e. a little over a decade old, does that mean she gave birth when she was a tween?

Either the numbers are exaggerated or there's a serious and personal backstory going on here...

Um, maybe I shouldn't have brought it up.

The mom wasn't the author, but the author that the author was quoting. I guess that when an author adds personal comments to piece about another author's personal comments, my brain malfunctions.

I do not have the blogging mindset, I'm afraid.

I'm confused. Doesn't the sex determination come from the sperm, which comes from the male? If more females are being born, then that means the males are creating more X sperms than Y sperms.

Another possibility is that XY embryos are for some reason not as viable as XX embryos. Maybe this is where the estrogen-like chemicals are coming in.

Frankly, if the sex of a fetus is actually being changed (XY to XX) in the womb, then I'm officially really freaked out.

But wouldn't it have been a good move for some Bush lacky to take the original memos, retype them word for word on a newer typewriter or word processor, mimeograph them (or whatever they called copying in the 70s) to make them look authentic, and destroy the originals?

If they were "leaked" to a journalist then that news agency would be holding a time bomb -- the moment they make them public the proportional-type/superscript thingy would invalidate them and embarass the news aganecy. Of course, if the real documents ever popped up, people would say that someone just copied the "forged" documents using appropriate 70s technology.

The truth would become lies. Personally I hate these Bush crony M-Fers (as Bill O'Reilly would say), but if someone came up with this plan, I have to say they're effing brilliant.

As a former physical anthropologist -- a fancy name for the guys and gals who study old human bones -- I advise you to do some research into the legality of bringing Native American human remains into the country. I think you might have committed a felony there, my friend. Start with a google search for NAGPRA and go from there.

Believe it or not, the worst part about it is the "Native American" part. I think it's only a misdemeanor for bones of white people.