I really, really hope that your real name is Nancy Drew.

My six-year-old, who just finished kindergarten, is just starting to write stories down. She is a moderately (but not super-genius) advanced reader and writer for her age—she prefers writing just a sentence and then "illustrating" it with more pictures than words. I think by the end of first grade, she will be all…

Alec Sulkin, I do not know who you are, but I will dislike you based on your misunderstanding of the word "prequel."

This entire thread is making me all hot and sweaty in my pants.

Thank you for posting that. I was sure it was a joke and not some really awful turn of phrase, but I didn't bother to Google "Hever Castle." I appreciate you spelling it out for we who don't remember our British history. :)

"In his lifetime, the average American..." Really, David? I will forgive Ms. Obama for leaving out half the population, but seriously? Letterman, get your writers to figure that crap out.

I just had breakfast with my husband and his boss (we're accompanying him on a business trip), and CNN was playing in the hotel lobby, and Walker's win was on. Just as I said, "Oh my God, I cannot believe that guy gets to keep his job," his boss said, "Yay, he won! God, I hate unions. They are destroying America."…

Not at all: People who don't care or vote based on how many bumper stickers they see or just don't bother to learn anything about the people they are elective are to blame for everything. Okay, not everything, but a lot of things. People who vote for the person they think is the best candidate based on actually…

Ooh, I would love that. We have had separate bathrooms, but never separate closets, and my husband has roughly five times as much clothing as I do, so his stuff always takes over my side and I have no space for what little clothes I do have.

After ten years of marriage, my husband and I can attest that a king-size bed plus two (or more) blankets makes for a happier couple. If you can swing separate bathrooms as well, you'll probably make it to your fiftieth anniversary.

I think they would have to set it at three-fifths of the tax. After all, the fraction three-fifths has a long and notable place in American history!

Replying to promote what seems like a very good explanation of the basic issues regarding the Deaf community and implants.

I have such a hard time understanding the idea of not wanting to give your child the option of hearing if it is physically possible. If they choose not to use an implant when they are older, that is their decision. I am close to legally blind; were my parents wrong to get me glasses instead of teaching me Braille? I…

"[breasts] are a very subliminal piece of powerful marketing."

Then why do they need to continue "grunting" (which is actually screaming) well after the ball has crossed the net, long after they've actually hit it?

Exactly. This is not grunting; it is screaming to distract your opponent, and it is unsportsmanlike (unsportswomanlike?). Neither female nor male players should be allowed to do it. However, that absolutely doesn't take away from the validity of pointing out that the coverage of it is sexist.

Seriously, all that pegboard with just two little baskets on it? They could have gotten five times as much storage space with one shelf going across the width of the bed. The idea is good, but the execution is a bit lacking.

Perhaps it's a slightly-less-short code. Or a just-barely-medium code.

You would think that people would get "toe the line" correct 50% of the time, just speaking statistically, right? But no. I think it's written wrongly about 98% of the time. Argh.

I'm not surprised, but I am sad. Maybe Banksy can make it real for us.