Bush alleged that Jesus is his fave philosopher. Jesus is the "turn the other cheek" guy. Bush's response to 9-11? Attack two countries and kill hundreds of thousands of people. Kill, kill, kill. When he was governor of Texas and led the country in execution, that was just practice.

And Bush and his subordinates torture, via Bush voters. Jesus was tortured. Thus, Bush and Bush voters ape the Romans.

But it's all good for Bush and Bush voters. Jesus died for their sins.

I imagine Jesus meeting Bush. Jesus might still be perforated by torture. Bush might be wearing the cross, the primary instrument of Jesus's torture, which would be an thoroughly unpleasant trigger for Jesus. And Jesus might be able to see, with his Lady MacBeth eyes, the blood that drips from Bush's hands.

The blood that drips from the hands of all Bush voters.

I don't use botox. I don't color my silver hair. I don't bleach my teeth. Hell, I don't even change my shirt for three days and most of my clothes have holes. However, it's damn easy for a youngster to snark about older women trying to offset aging. I've lived long enough to see many young women assert that they'll age naturally and then see those same women bleach their teeth, color their hair, and so on, all of which mimic youth. Ms. Haskins will have the authority to assert what she asserted when she's wrinkled...and gray...and saying what she says with yellowed teeth. Until then, it's all hypothetical.

The one point where I absolutely agree with Ms. Haskins is when she talks about the slide into irrelevance as we age. If you currency has been youth, you will be diminished and diminished. If your currency is your intellect, you'll slow the diminishing.

I've met older women who look fabulous and I sidle up to them, expecting to rev our cerebral horses, and then I realize, they're all putt-putt-putt. You better be able to back up that taut face and that's the problem: one can spend so much time achieving a taut face that it fronts a slack mind.

And they are.

They let rich girls pretend to be poor little rich girls.

Do you color your hair?

Bleach your teeth?

Use makeup to mimic youth?

I don't use Botox. I don't do plastic surgery. I'm aging in the normal ways, but I do have compassion for women who put needles in their faces...and yep, they do look odd...or, at least, some of them do.

Ms. Harding.

I don't know why the folks at Cosmo don't just hire some nerd to write a program that'll write their articles: they're so, decade after decade, the same.

You're the second person I've encountered who thought, "Car crash victim," after meeting a plastic surgeon's victim. The first met a very, very famous celebrity and this witnessing woman had to flee the room, lest she weep.

The witness said, "She looked liked she'd been in a horrible car carsh and they didn't have all the pieces when piecing her face back together."

...where cons jerk off over gay people's crotches and evolution.

But none believe it. You can see their unbelief in the things they covet, the poverty they permit, the near perpetual war they adore.*

One does not wage war after war after war unless one adores it.

They're both dead.

Darwin was killed by time.

God was killed by religionists.

Irony.

"See, it was GOD, whose son's name is JESUS who came here to save you from SIN so you don't go to HELL when the RAPTURE comes and all the TRULY REPENTANT are whisked bodily into HEAVEN where they spend ETERNITY basking in the light of the TRINITY of which there are three PARTS but only one GODHEAD who wants you to cut off the tip of your PEE PEE."

Whatever country is next at being the Grand Poobah of Imperialism will be just as foolhardy and sometimes evil as we've been and as Japan was in the 30s when it ran out of raw materials, but at least it won't be us. It won't be us.

However, it will be our children who will pay for our long unfettered appetites.

I clutch my pearls everytime I see all the gams and tits on that channel.

Your definition of hypersexual is spot-on.

Here's a friend's definitions:

A prude: anyone slightly to the right of you in sexual proclivities.

A perv: anyone slightly to the left of you in sexual proclivities.

And another friend, who's slept with many women and a few men, said, "You can never tell how someone will be in sack. A woman can appear vanilla and be Baskin Robbins 31 flavors in bed. Or a woman can dress like a tart and be vanilla in bed."

However, Ms. Parker is a computer program. Has she ever written anything that surprised anyone*? And whereas girls should be wary of runaway self-sexualizing, Ms. Parker, in her loathing of women and loving of her idealized 1952-esthetics, is the last person to be given a podium to speak to this issue.

* Anyone who's familiar with the Right's dogma.

Financial writers, writing about a particular stock, must confess if they own that stock.

Since you write so often about boys and men being accused of rape, have you?

If not, why do you beat the same damn drum, forever and ever? Is it to convince? If so many remain unconvinced, why not try another tack?

And we want to match our peer's grandprogeny.

So, we're animals and we're competitive animals, neither of which are compelling reasons for adding more of us to an overpopulated world. Every new baby is an oil consumer, a water consumer, and a food consumer.