@HelloKitty: Let's feed 'em dirt—toughen their spines a bit. Get off my lawn!

@HelloKitty: We did that too! But with non-rubberized pliers—I don't think it occured to anyone in our very technologically backwards family that doing so might be dangerous.

@HelloKitty: Oh my goodness, vertical hold... my parents finally got rid of the old TV only when we spent most of a Tony Awards broadcast fiddling with that knob.

@rd2uk: Not surprising at ALL since you're from NC—it must be a circus.

@Cute_and_Hirsute: Because Clinton is a fucking genius and we have many of the same interests; however, he is as old as my dad and I worship his wife, so no sex. I know nothing about Carlos except that he is fucking hot; maybe we could have good conversation, but I want him specifically for his body.

@daringdropout: Breath of fresh air, ain't it?

Oh my sweet goodness, I would like to be there... they can drink, and I can have my way with Carlos while discussing politics, society, history, law, and everything else with President Clinton.

@GrummoreGrummersom: But you won't be safe from La Resistence, who will surely want to study/harvest your genetic material in an effort to bypass the computers.

@la.donna.pietra: Gotcha. Partisan bullshit, however, is the D.C. way of life, so it could never be a tempering influence!

@Pigasus: Goddammit, how'd you know what I was eating AGAIN?!?!

@zu_zu: It was dirt, everyone loves dirt! It was also essential reading for anyone with any serious business in politics or law, because of the information on the inside workings it provided. I learned more about politics from that report than from almost any other single source I've ever encountered (provided you…

@la.donna.pietra: Perhaps it depends where you were at the time... I'm from D.C.—there was *nothing* but Starr and the gang for a good two years. Nothing else of interest may have happened in the city for the coverage it got, it was everybody's sole focus.

Rather magnificent. I would perhaps add 'young' to the title, because it's the whole notion of innocence, jailbait, sexual transgression that captures what is so skeezy about the 'natural' state promoted here (which also plays into the various notions regarding sexualization/exoticization of non-white girls). The…

@la.donna.pietra: True. I guess the difference for me is that one has remained strictly personal in scope. People in this country (and elsewhere, of course) take other people's personal business personally; with Clinton, his personal fuckup was taken personally by people who were willing to fuck up the entire country…

@MagImpalor: Now I really am confused... I thought Karenna was getting a divorce? What's going on with Kristin?

@rd2uk: I disagree about the Clinton affair playing out less publically—the gossip rags, print and virtual, in the U.S. are all over the Edwards story, certainly, but Clinton/Lewinsky was an international matter due to the impeachment proceedings. It doesn't get much more mudslingy than having Congress attempt to…

@AraRichards: Vogue or Vanity Fair?

@CurtCole: Happy birthday sister-wife! Tons of Johnny Weir and Jake Gyllenhaal lovin' to you.

It's all about the Orthodox guy on the LES—ten paces, yes, plus he's a nice guy and it's all wholesale, so even us giganticly endowed ladies can get bras for under $50. [www.orchardcorset.com]

The desired end is clearly to create a sumptuous hourglass shape... while maintaining skinny hips and chests. Solution? Remove the ribcage!