What just about everyone here seems to be talking around (but not about) is just how shallow picking a life partner based on looks is. Honestly, that's about the last thing in queue for me. Mental compatibility comes first, and emotional connectedness, and common purposes, and shared interests. I dunno, maybe I've got some mutant gene or something, but I'd much rather have an evening out with someone fascinating like Ursula Le Guin or Joan Armatrading than a "pretty shell" like Jennifer Aniston.

But hey, you all who put looks at the top of your list, you go on with that. Keeps you out of my social circles, and gives me a good laugh when your own aging brings it back around to bite you in the ass.

What the hell is wrong with Americans that so many of them think that they never have to adapt their lives to their circumstances? If you've got children, leave them home or don't go to bars. A bar is a place for adults, period. Otherwise, why not just take the tykes to a strip club as well? They're too young for the two-drink minimum and their little hands can't tip with a fiver effectively, so it's not like anything wrong is going on, right? Take 'em to the local XXX cinema too. As long as they sleep quietly next to you, I'm sure the other patrons won't mind.

Cripes people, show some freaking maturity. You shouldn't have to be told how to act like a responsible parent, but clearly you do. Kudos to the bar owner who posted the excellent warning, and I hope you bar-hoping baby-pushers get done in for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

You say "homosexuals raising children is not morally equivalent to a heterosexual married couple". I have to agree. Because some studies, as well as good old anecdotal evidence, shows that the lagest majority of child molestation cases are by straight fathers against their own daughters.

So you're correct, homosexuals parents aren't morally equivalent to heterosexual ones. Sometimes they're much better.

This one comment of yours explains it all:

normal Americans outside of the insular fantasyland blue states

So then, you've (pardon the term) outed yourself as the classic American provincial know-nothing. You no doubt listen to the homogenous voices on the radio and in the pulpit which reaffirm your blinkered view on the world. You demonize anyone different, and somehow imagine that being surrounded by other bigots makes you "normal". No doubt you also think you're in the mainstream, but you're not. You're just tuning into the same little sheltered world over and over, until you mistake it for the real world outside.

You call other people "insular", yet you are the one who shows an appalling lack of understanding about how the world at large is structured. You clearly know nothing about gays, or blacks, nor any other group or nationality I'd imagine. All you know is your own tiny life, and yet you, for reasons unknown, believe it to be the inerrant template for all right living people.

Do you remember Baby Jessica, that little girl who spent days trapped in a well? That's you, dear heart, and I hope one day someone or something comes along and rescues you from the narrow darkness too.

Sorry I don't have an immediate link to the story, but a few months back there was an article on a guy who ran a family-films-only theatre. He showed only the most wholesomesty (by whatever yardstick) flicks around and catered solely to the family-with-kids set.

Needless to say, he lost so much money that he had to abandon this tactic, and switched to showing porn. Says it all, doesn't it?

Why is it that nature is the final arbiter for these people when natural examples go their way (nurturing penguins, patriarchal lions), but irrelevant when it goes against them (gay penguins, infanticidal lions)? It appears we're not supposed to bring up evolution except when it can be twisted to show that men need to be in command and women need to serve. Then it's a-okay!

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised at this dichotomy. After all, the people who see this study as a "good thing" are the same ones who want to force everyone to be a Christian while they themselves refuse to live by the real teachings of Christ.

I wish this brave woman well in her quest to fix the system from the inside. However, I think it's overly optimistic to believe they won't try to 'swiftboat' her as well. After all, they did it Max Clelland, a similarly-injured veteran himself.

But enough negativity. The only way to end war-as-policy is to elect warriors who know the real cost of combat. I don't know much about Ms. Duckworth yet, but I look forward to hearing good things from her. Best of luck!

Like Ms. Mojo, I find this tasteless more than anything else. But being tasteless is a surefire way of making money off the less enlightened consumers in this country. And as wealth is no arbiter of enlightenment, I can see where a stunt like this would work on rich guys just as easily as any other strata of male.

I don't think most of the women here need to worry about this kind of thing impacting their relationship with their male mates, since by-and-large they seem to be intelligent enough not to put up with the kind of guy who gets off on this crap. Seriously guys, these bunny girls don't find you interesting or attractive, they don't want to go home with you, and they are having a good laugh at you once you leave. The only reason they are there is the same reason the store wants them there - it expedites separating a fool from his money.