I just talked to someone today who had no idea what Serial was or what the case was about. Now all they need is 11 more of those.

I'm sorry for your experience. One of my friends had similar troubles with natural home birth, had to get a caesarean on the third day of labor, and initially felt pretty disappointed. She told me she finally decided any kind of birth experience resulting in a healthy mom and baby was a successful one.

Oddly enough, the RDA of calcium is the hardest thing to obtain in a strictly vegan diet. But most soy and other milk substitutes are supplemented with it these days. If the parents are sensible and aren't like "Oh no! No artificial calcium for little Raindrop Ponypants!" the kid should be OK.

I am sorry, you are wrong. She is dating Augustus Waters. That is all.

I'm glad your Marine friend found a female grunt acceptable, and I don't think women should have to be Anna Kournikova to enlist. But seriously, I have known female veterans from all branches of the service and they tended to be slender, fit, attractive, and perfectly happy to break you in half if necessary.

You need a new movie. I recommend "Design for Living" (1933): Gary Cooper, Frederic March and the underappreciated Miriam Hopkins as the love triangle that just refuses to be resolved.

When he got the "Criminal Minds" gig, I really hoped it was his Robert Downey Jr. moment. Sigh.

Nicholas Brendon's trajectory, post-Buffy, makes me very sad. I hope he makes progress in fighting his disease.

Oh, yes, let us please hear the legal, First Amendment-compliant argument for offering marriage to religious people but not to non-religious people. This should be good.

But hideous in a summer palette, or more like autumn?

I seriously love that print. I wonder what the colors were.

My god yes! I want that hat and coat!

People are still talking about him in California. Sad that authorities don't even have a good ID for him or know who his family was.

Whereas I come from a family of hillbillies, but have never lived in the South myself!

Oh, that is absolutely where my family picked it up! If you didn't like Tennessee Ernie Ford, you had to be worthless. Maybe even shiftless.

My uncle used "pea-pickin'" exclusively for the fellows my aunt worked with, outside of their hearing.

You're right. I guess that's what makes it so definitively an insult when applied to an adult.

I'm trying to remember if I've ever heard "bless your LITTLE heart" in a sincere context. As far as I can recall, if the LITTLE gets stuck in there, you know the referent is a fucking idiot.

American, family is from south-ish, definitely heard it as a kid. Haven't heard it in years, though.

Between this and those folks in Idaho who want the right to leave their kids' potentially fatal illnesses untreated, I am beginning to worry that "Unwind" may have been prophecy rather than satire.