Hahahahahaha. Oh honey. I don't want kids and I'm not the de facto babysitter of yours.

If you don't want to sound like an exemplar of misogynist prickdom, please don't refer to women as "damaged." And please don't speculate about how much they like themselves.

"In San Francisco proper, teachers start at $65,000."

She was asked, "Are you a size queen?" on a radio program and responded, "Guilty as charged"; she said in an interview, "He has to be good in bed and the size matters. You know what I mean? The inner beauty counts as well, but without a toy it doesn’t make it fun"; "Is you big enough?" in a lyric in "Rude Boy"....

I certainly would be glad my mom was living her life fully. Damn right I would take solace in that, and it's got nothing to do with her being a "cool mom," whatever that is. And traveling alone isn't even a particularly risky thing to do.

War reporters often take desk jobs when they have kids. I think Christiane Amanpour, for one, has talked publicly about limiting her exposure to conflict zones since having a child. I can understand that.

Yeah. 'Beyonce and football' would do well as an updated version of the saying.

Isn't that what she does? She and Lady Gaga are tied for most egomaniacal performer ever. And next, Beyonce's face will be on Pepsi cans. Yay.

Except...that's the argument you made. "Fans, money, etc. = quality" is *exactly* your argument.

I thought it was supposed to be a Destiny's Child reunion show? Am I wrong about that? I don't know if the other chicks were even there because Beyonce was so front and center. ETA: Ok, the other ladies get some time a bit later (?). Ugh. Another really brightly lit instance of Beyonce getting herself off.

What's a girl who dislikes heights doing taking a trapeze class?

Agreed 100%.

Anyone with any brains at all can critique the way a commercial is filmed without sounding like they're body snarking. For example: "That commercial doesn't do justice to Kate Upton's looks!" TA DA.

Is the poem "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"? That's the only one by him I know. I could maybe write a paragraph about it. Maybe. Good luck!

I'm delighted to see another CL fan. Seriously. I had great luck with it and agree with everything you say. I can write my own ads though — I'm a pro at it. :)

Professional vs personal ethics! I don't envy you.

Seconded. But in my experience, they never post. They browse. I met (dated, loved, and/or fucked) several great guys after a drunken bout of posting. I think CL is great but the woman needs to be the one to post and it needs to be intriguing — men browsing CL are looking for excitement. That can be love-excitement…

Mia Farrow is both crazy and a national treasure ("crazy" meaning deeply involved with and actually damn educated about the issues she's given her post-movie star career to, though she still reads as an innocent girl-who-found-a-cause).

If you want to have a relationship with him in the future, take a break from it now (like, pack today or tomorrow). Leave him (or at the very least stop living with him) until he gets his shit together. Make it clear that it's never okay to talk to you like that. Never. Verbal abuse is going to tear you down…

Wait, you can have sex with one of these, uh, cups, inside you?