<<They are not interested in having sex with men, and would prefer that no one else did either.>>

As a lesbian, I can tell you that *for me personally* the first part of that sentence is true. I don't presume to speak on anyone else's behalf.

HOWEVER, the latter part of your sentence is not for me. Why shouldn't everyone get/give/enjoy what they want to do/what pleases them or their S.O.s? As a feminist (though I don't know how radical I am), I believe women should do what pleases them. If some women like pleasuring their male lover that way, so it be. Enjoy!

But, geez, don't blame dykes for everything! Some of us like to have fun, too!

that I am only a "mom" to cats and that Maeve Emma and Skye Elizabeth wouldn't know an American Girl if it offered them treats on a silver platter. So I don't have to explain to them that Mommy and Daddy (my partner) think this AG franchise is ridiculously over-priced, cowed by the right and another example of the Disney- and Oprah-fication of America.

We'll stick to Kitty Hoots, toy mice and anything Skye can get her paws/teeth around, thanks very much.

Thanks, Salon. Now I've started my day with a laugh yet again.

<<And really, any company boycotted by homophobic religious groups is fine by me.>>

I really do appreciate your sentiments about this. And that AG offers bi-ethnic dolls (if that's the right word)is a good thing. If my brother and his wife have children, they will be 1/2 Puetro Rican, 1/4 Eastern European Jewish and 1/4 Scots, so IMHO representing multi-cultural children via dolls is laudable.

However, when pressured by those homophobic religious groups, AG caved faster than you can say "American Girls are pricey little dears". Wish it weren't true...

<<Stop blaming companies for selling you crap with no soul. That's their job. Your job is to help your children develop their soul themselves.>>

Excellent point.

...how fed up I am with the current crop of Senate Democrats? When are they going to take their heads out of the sand and actually act on what their constituents want?

And yet they wonder why, when they call during their beg-a-thon, I say I won't give them a dime til they grow some b*lls...Maybe we should ship 'em all to Iraq, make them attend soldiers' funerals, make them spend a day cleaning bedpans at the naval hospitals,

And, in terms of healthcare coverage, give them $20,000 to live on and force them to pay the bills when all they have is catastrophic (in more ways than one) coverage that carries a $7,000 deductible.

How sad. Those used to be things I'd want Republicans to do since they were/are so out of touch.

..."dyke", "lesbian", "queer", etc. Just give my partner and me the same rights as straight married couples.

Thanks for the links, Tracy and Broadsheet. You girls rock!

I'm still getting past the fact that someone (male? female?) would have sex with the bastard...or maybe he had to go out of the country to find someone he could pay to play with his (limp) joy stick.

Funny thing, apparently in rehab/recovery, people are supposedly instructed to handle all medication-related issues on the up and up (sorry, no pun intended). Guess he skipped that meeting...

By this evening, don't be surprised if those self-righteous bastards on the right crowd around some Fox News desk and cry "evil, left-wing, scandal-mongering mainstream media" again as they did when Bill Bennett lost his shirt gambling.

'Course the only thought worse than Limpbaugh using Viagra is Darth Cheney scarving down a few...

Why don't Feinstein and the rest of the Democrats who fell into the GOP's spider web just close up shop (officially, that is) and go home? They've done all but make it official. The voters won't notice. The Republicans might, only when they realize they have no one to bait.

And Clinton: I see you've been practicing Twister a lot. You've turned political "flexibility" into an art form.

Brings to mind the old Mr. Moral Majority character from Bloom County. The guy would siddle up to a purdy young thang on a park bench, try to cop a feel and berate her for "tempting" him when she smacked him. He's alive, well and apparently still copping feels all over Washington.

Ann Coulter is like the little sociopath we all knew (and loathed) in grade school who'd pull wings off flies, torture cats and other small critters just to get attention. Now this "grown-up" sociopath is seeing what slanderous, dangerous tricks she can pull to get our attention.

So I'm torn about progressive media outlets such as Salon covering whatever her cruel-and-unusual rant of the day may be. Part of me says, "Well, we should know that some morons are listening to her" and hopes that the more sensible people know about her, the smaller her audience will be. Another part says, "Let's stop talking about her. We'll only encourage her to maim more small critters, stir up more s***, etc."

Either way, something's gotta give. All of these clowns fall down sooner or later and can't get up. Maybe she'll be stopped returning from the Dominican Republic with Viagra or kiddie porn...oops, that was that other buffoon...

No, the writer wasn't making that case. And if we're talking about "silly" and easily refuted arguments, why does your buddies Dobson, Santorum, et.al., keep rehashing the same tired, ridiculous arguments that two consenting adults of the same gender who love each other will some how harm their own neanderthal marriages?

Now just crawl back under your rock.

That DeLay may have said it in front of his daughter or that Burr's head might explode.

A joke's a joke--no offense taken by this dyke. But I hope the joke's on Burr come election day, when another critter will come along: crow.