"With all due respect to my colleague and friend Sarah Palin, I think she's misunderstood what Michelle Obama is trying to do.

@Lynx: Plus the internet has made voyeurism and judge-y opportunties so much more readily available than in newspapers.

@redpensplease: Amen. The problem is usually portions and processed foods, not some butter or cream. (Fortunately we have good longevity in my family and no history of heart disease, so I do not fear dairy fat).

I'm sure Zara postponed the annoucement until after her cousin had his, thus ensuring no one gives a rat's ass about her wedding and she can get married like a normal person.

@GunwallsLizzie: Someone who cooked with butter and cream and lived into her 90s!

@MadFab: Accomplish, my ass. If he'd dropped out, he'd have gone to jail. Serving your sentence doesn't mean you have self-respect or decency. It only means you did what the court ordered you to do.

@MadFab: Regardless of his motives, he should not be mocked in his attempt to do the right thing.

@slf72: Oh right. That was a nice sweater, wasn't it?

@LaComtesse: Are you kidding? The Quiverfull folks would be all over having 17 at once. Think of the possibilities! It's not like anyone actually cares if the women can handle it or not.

@dialing_footnoterphone: Yeah, seriously. Just show me the picture. That's all I care about.

@RudyWaltz: OMG, I feel so guilty for laughing when I read that. Don't ridgebacks traditionally get their tails docked? (not that I'm advocating that, because it's horrible).

Mrs. Duggar is jealous.

@MadFab: Yes, that's the goal, but he hasn't come even close to it.

@MadFab: What part of that tweet was an attempt to "learn and teach others?"

@eruantaliel: Yeah, I know that no one actually gives a rat's ass. But to say that the UK class system is "identical" to the US one is simply not true as long as the UK persists in using hereditary titles. There hasn't exactly been a move to get rid of titles even after the House of Lords was cleared of all the…

@Pootmatoot: Noble titles in the UK didn't just go to rich families in the last couple hundred years. Many were given much, much earlier, to ensure that land was held by nobles friendly to the royal family, to the illegitimate offspring of kings, or reward loyalty to the monarch (sometimes by stripping the title/lands…

@Pootmatoot: One is built on a thousand-year old system of inheiritance and therefore is only open to a select few people of one ethnicity who are bred to it.

@Miss Suka: I am absolutely certain that even if I left my husband for another man, I would not seek out the New York Times to spill the TMI for everyone to read over their bagels and coffee.

@Pootmatoot: Yeah, but having name recognition because your family became rich—-like the Rockefellers or Vanderbilts—-is a different thing than having a title which has been handed down for generations thanks to an ancient system of entitlement granted by a monarch. The Kennedys, after all, were just some immigrants…

@CarolynJane: For that and so many other reasons...