"Too cute for jail." That is not a thing.

If you can reach a deep state of meditation, it is better than sex. And in fact, sex causes you to be less effective in meditation. Not that it's bad to have sex!

"It sounds like more than just one man. If we believe Sinead O' Connor, it is a huge industrial complex of male stakeholders all wanting her to be sexy so that can get richer."

Did anyone else find this boring?

I think he's an awesome writer too - my favourite, in fact. Maybe it's just tall poppy syndrome, or book snobs who think that because he's so popular they're just too cool for him.

Sorry, Green Mile isn't necessarily anti-misogynistic... I just think it's a great book. Ok, here I go... The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon! Carrie! Firestarter! Cujo... The Dark Tower... Under The Dome (the kick-ass little girl who saves the day)... there are so many strong, well-developed female characters in most of…

The Green Mile.

Doug, you're an idiot. Read more King. You'll get smarter, maybe.

You need to read the book, then. It's a very different animal when it's on prime-time TV. Although, if you find excessive violence confronting, I wouldn't read the book.

Please correct me if I am wrong. In Australia where I live, much of the news about the government of Israel has been overwhelmingly negative. Leaving bombs in Lebanon after a ceasefire so that civilians would be hurt. Near to apartheid policies against the Palestinians, with most of their children suffering PTSD. This…

Oh dear. Yes, as a Jew you have no need to identify or apologise for any other Jew's decisions, just like as a half-Burmese Australian I have no need to apologise for any other... whatever's whatever. But you just made a blanket statement about all Black Americans, assuming that they are coming from Africa, which you…

That's true. But what's that got to do with her shoes? There's reasonable criticism and there's bitchy, if you know what I'm saying.

Well, I think it will be fun. And I don't like the bitchy personal comments that people are making here. Come on now, we don't know her, can't we rise above that? If you don't like her beliefs, how is it going to help by dissing her choice of shoes?

My sister does this to people. She'll sit down near where they are already obviously smoking, and then start coughing and tut-tutting and giving them dirty looks. It is fake and sanctimonious. I think she's a bitch.

It's been happening here in Australia too. Whale and dolphin beachings tend to be linked to naval and submarine activity. It's the big beluga in the room, nobody seems to want to talk about it.

I know, so pretty. Every time I see a picture of her I call my husband over and say "guess who this girl is!! Look at her eyes!" (We're both Nirvana fans.) You don't even notice the duck face because she's so beautiful.

I have met parents like this, and I do see where you're coming from. But I would ask you to look at it from a different perspective. Since becoming a mother myself, I've often been confronted by childless people who:

How much Buffy/Angel/Firefly/etc/etc/etc did you watch exactly? God dammit I'm married to a man who feels the same way, but who's never watched any of the above. What's not to love??!!