I think she did let him talk over Ryan quite a bit when she could have been firmer and said something like, "Please let Mr. Ryan answer now; you can rebut during your time." I honestly got the impression that she was curious about the inner workings of the White House when she was asking about how they decided to draw…

Snoop Dogg is freaking hilarious. I can't help it; I just love him.

I was living in Santa Barbara when I discovered it (before the movie was made), and it was basically life-changing. It's about thirty minutes north of Santa Barbara in the absolute middle of nowhere, and is just amazing.

Yup, it's totally a chain. A fancy chain, but a chain nonetheless. They do have darn good food, but the best steaks in the world are in a tiny-farmtown Lompoc restaurant in Southern California called The Hitching Post. It was the setting for that movie about wine and middle-aged angst, "Sideways," and their steaks…

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?

Huh—I wonder if that depends on the eye itself or how it's situation in the socket. I'm an RN, and I've had several patients with glass eyes, and none of them moved, as far as I could tell, although I wasn't specifically looking for that.

That's not really odd, is it? The warren gets destroyed right at the beginning, when you hardly know the characters. Charlotte dies at the end, when you've grown to love her so much. E.B. White even said he couldn't re-read his own book without sobbing at the end.

My husband played with three lion cubs at a sanctuary in South Africa once (I think it was here: http://www.lion-park.com/ but I can't swear to it). It's quite famous there from what I understand, and I like to think that means they take good care of the animals and really do keep them safe, because he said it was…

California. It's illegal to own a ferret there, primarily because of the worry that if they escaped, they would interfere with the native ecosystem (although I imagine the coyotes would LOVE them).

This link absolutely needs to be added to the original post. In bold.

That thing was so distracting during the debate that I actually had to go look up what the hell it was—my husband kept swearing it was like a glob of mud or something. Apparently it's a Secret Service pin that was given to him as a gift by his security detail.

That was my first thought too. I really kind of wish the police could breathalyze everyone coming out of bars and clubs (and restaurants, for that matter) after last call. (Is "breathalyze" a word? It should be.)

LOL, yep, I'm all legal and licensed and everything now! I even have malpractice insurance! :) I've been a cardiology nurse for three months or so, and it's amazing. I've seen three people having active heart attacks while I watched, and as far as I can tell, I've pretty directly saved two lives. It's so sweet that…

"I think it's lost meaning as a word for female genitalia and meaning that to be the worst and most offensive thing that exists."

It makes me very sad that people think that midwives and doulas are the same thing. Doulas are lovely and can be comforting and helpful, but they are NOT medical professionals.

The fact that there exists in this universe a lawyer whose online persona is "WhedonFangirl" makes me really, ridiculously happy. If I ever need a lawyer, I'm totally calling you.

Is the door to Oz the green one?

IIRC, this one is looks like a vagina while it is actually a symbolic father figure. I am not even kidding.

Ah, of course. I thought you were randomly implying that Phillip Garrido forced her to have an abortion when she wasn't actually pregnant or something bizarre like that.

What does Jaycee DuGard have to do with it? I am clearly missing something.