Vegans are not a uniformly puritan moralistic lot. It's nice to know that diet does not define them... Sex sells to vegans as it does to the rest of us. Now address the "sex sells" issue in general, if you want, but don't single out vegans.

Maybe they didn't burn their bras but they stopped wearing them. You can tell which ones did, today, by the glorious way their breasts sag and nipples poke thru their even dry t-shirts.

I've never heard Randi Rhodes except for this YouTUBE performance, and, if anyone is shocked, I can only assume they've never been to a comedy club!

The world is not running out of oil... It's just reflecting it's true market price. But our problems are not just energy... our food and water sources are at risk (our fisheries are being depleted). The easiest solution is to simply cut our waste of the world's natural resources. We need to be less liberal and more conservative in our lives and not compete with the Chinese for profligacy.

Obama is doing well handling this. He needs simply to reitrate what he stands for and to make distinctions between himself and Rev Wright. The people vilified by the media and conservative opinion, like Rev Wright, have a right to speak up on their own behalf. George McGovern become unelectable after he decided to cut his running mate from his ticket.

Check out this movie about Iranian girls cros-dressing so that they could get into a soccer match.

Amy Klocuchar - 2012

When I was in college in the late 60's and early 70's, some Chinese students were eager to participate in sexual relations, but were very careful to not have vaginal penetration (all else was OK). An intact hymen is no evidence of virginity.

The "Lad Mags" in the USA are just an evolution of sexual equality: they are vacuos advertising vehicles filled with glossy images, fashion and things to buy.

Can a person named Paris win the Presidency?

Limit yourself to watching only the comedies on the Lifetime channel... the stalkers, abusers and rapists can take a toll on one's postive outlook of sex and the world!

In the old days, we had bottomless coffee.

Bail them out, again!

I do remember hearing these kinds of warnings, in Seattle, in the late 1990's, but the warnings were directed toward the "Millenium melt-down". Maybe the rest of the warnings related to the Millenium (what were they?) are also delayed: the world will end soon, but later than predicted.

The government should just get out of the marriage business altogether. Marriages should be a strictly spiritual thing, handled by your "church".

Both my male and female bosses prefer to promote manly men over fuity men (dish-washing, baby-diapering, pleasing their wives men).

The time to complain would have been long before the crash...

Why doesn't the gobernment get out of the marriage game, altogether, and, for legal purposes only, provide domestic unions, equally, for all couples (including heterosexual ones). That way, marriage can be defined solely by churches and other social clubs.

Unemployment will take a big toll on relationships!

We had interactive TV in the 1950's. You ordered this kit of a see-through plastic thing you put on the screen, and some crayons, and you followed a dot on the screen with your crayons to draw a picture.

A little journalistic sensationalism is good for parents. Ignorance is not bliss. It's true kids lie about having had sex and knowing some of their peers have it on school grounds is more likely to cause them to concoct stories of their own adventures than to actually engage in it.

You think we'd get a lot of takers if we offerred immunity from prosecution for all who participate in a Truth Commission? Kinda implies that those who do not participate are left open to prosecution.

Accomodating someone, in the next seat, who is too big, or in the seat behind, who is having trouble controlling her children, or in the seat in front, who needs to recline to the maximum, or someone who needs to barf into a sick bag, is a lesson in compassion. You could say a prayer, something like "I am grateful I do not suffer from obesity... I pray for those who do, for whom accomodations are difficult," or "I am grateful I do not suffer from motion sickness... I pray for those who do, for whom travel must be an ordeal."

"... our civilization is so obsessed with making sure there are no consequences for consuming too much, it ends up punishing everyone who moderates their consumption."

Our civilization is also obsessed with getting our due... not letting anyone getting something over on us.

Like you, I walk to work and do not own a car. The utilities in my buildiing are paid, yet I do not run my air-conditioner: some of my neighbors never turn theirs off; I turn the water off in the shower while I soap up and shave: one neighbor takes an hour long shower on Saturday mornings that drains the warm water from even the huge water tank in the basement... when I hear him start his shower, I jump in mine so I can get a warm shower in before the water is gone.

One time I was travelling on a two lane road. One lane was the one in use, because the other merged into that lane far ahead. A few impatient drivers would use the second lane to get ahead and force merge toward the end. Some irate drivers felt they had to straddle the two lanes to prevent these impatient drivers from gaining an advantage over them.

What is the lesson?

The best and the brightest expect big bonuses even for abject failure. We can live with the mediocre and the cautious.

Even Supreme Court trials are adversary proceedings and the justices must consider first the effects to the complainants as well as the broader impact of their decisions.