My crowd’s motto is “everybody has something.” A few of us were driving along one day and realized that we were respectively an epileptic, a diabetic, an alcoholic and a hemophiliac. But to us, we were just our crowd —- individuals who each has his or her own situation, and we value and love each other dearly. It…

Mat Fraser is absolutely spellbinding! What a lovely, sexy guy. I’d never seen him until I followed this link. He looks perfect to me, and I agree that he would be terrific playing a regular dramatic (or comic) role without any particular focus on his arms but rather on him.

I agree. Feet are relatively clean —- it’s shoes and especially their soles that are coated with the detritus of civilization. I don’t allow shoes in my home; think of the sputum and mucus and jizz and blood and feces and germs and mold that shoes track into your home. You want to make your floors into another…

Imagine how she felt having to touch and rub your sweaty toe jam ick.

You're joking, right? Either that or you're a joke.

Thank you. This empty-headed suspicion is so annoying.

No, pregnancy and childbirth are really risky for Homo Sapiens, and for higher apes as well, for reasons of natural selection. Pregnancy is long and fraught; childbirth is the final test. I’m sure we’ve all learned how the female pelvis evolved to the absolute outer extent of its ability to expel that large-headed…

Pure sophistry. Deal with the reality on the ground today. Whatever obscure design origins that cloth had, that nobody cares about any more, the fact is that the flag, and those who flaunt it, convey approval, respect and support for people willing to kill and die to prolong —- and spread —- chattel slavery.

I’m heartbroken over this. I’ve been listening to her songs more now, and discovered so many I hadn’t heard over the years. An amazing talent. I wonder if she still has some ability to write. Sometimes it’s just the speech area that is affected, but the person retains their ability to communicate on paper. I doubt it,…

It only makes sense. I had very painful knee surgery when I was 20 years old after landing a cartwheel wrong. I am a 5’10-and-1/2 inch woman, and ever since I was 16, I had carried a nuisance 20 pounds that I could not get off, thanks to my teenage appetite. I was an extremely active college kid. So I was laid up and…

Her fivehead (sixhead?) alone denotes some aliens among her extended family.

How would it have gone for your parents had one of them refused the union, possibly in favor of another that the parents were not so approving of?

Can't beat Yosemite —- or any of the California redwood forests for hiking and awesome weather, whatever season. My favourite is the Big Sur wilderness.

Toulouse-Lautrec would have loved that whole scene.

Actually, the fashion houses themselves are not selling to the “average woman.” That’s down the road apiece. Many houses are selling to powerful executive buyers for stores like Macy’s, Nordstrom, Express, etc. These buyers calculate whether some interpretation/adaptation of an often radical or extreme look can be…

Well, looks-wise, I'll share what worked for me. I'm 67, and I got a facelift at 40 and another one at 50, and they were the smartest money I ever spent. I get Botox and juvederm for touch ups now from time to time, no more lifts needed. What the facelifts did was basically take away the obsession/concern with aging.…