Media of all kinds just has a greater influence on you when you're young.

Over at Mother Jones, Ben Dreyfuss generously speculates that of course children's books will be remembered as more influential, as they were most likely first read as a child, when our brains are more malleable.

Grown up books stay with you for a weekend. Lessons fron chuldren's books stay for a lifetime.Which i guess is an other thing, most adult novels don"t go out of their way to moralize or influence in the first place.

Yes, when you spend ALL the money you make, you will, as a result, not have any money. Solution: spend less money.

I'd say it's more amusing than depressing. If children being born after you were born and thus not experiencing the same toys as you makes you depressed then your hugs per day is too low.

My boyfriend absolutely belts it when he has an orgasm. To be fair he has a very difficult time achieving orgasm ( <30% ) so I imagine that when he DOES get there, it feels fantastic. I'm a screamer too - but he's got me beat in sheer decibel output!

Hahahaha, right?! Shit, some of my best orgasms were once where I couldn't even make a slight groan, just left my mouth gaping wide open, filling the room with silence. Hahaa

I don't shout, but I always let him know I hit the O. Communication is love!

I sound appalling when I orgasm. I feel like everyone does. It's all grunts and heavy breathing and the occasional squeal - like a dying pig. One of the biggest hurdles I had to get over to orgasm regularly was not feeling self-conscious about the sounds I was making, because I would get too focused on trying to…

Maybe we should stop putting celebrities on pedestal and acting like they don't spew shit out of their mouths like normal humans. Most aren't saints like Patrick Stewart, Hiddles, and Ian McKellem and i'm sure if we dig far enough we can find something bad from their pasts to knock them down to earth with.

Thank god not having a microwave made it even easier to talk my kid out of those things. But what really did it was explaining ads to him and that the people who put elmo on crappy food thought he was idiot who would beg me for them. (It's called the nag factor) No kid likes to be treated like an idiot, and it made…

LOL! Pizza and Reubens are two of my favorites. Yeah, I can make a Reuben cheaper, but I can't make just one cheaper. I can't buy two slices of rye bread, a slice of swiss, a single serving of sauerkraut, and a single serving of thousand island dressing for the cost of a Reuben at D'Bronx.( $6.50, I think).

Same goes…

Ok, I'd really like an answer from Gawker Media about this. You all are up in arms about this invasion of privacy, calling everyone who posts these photos disgusting and other names. Yet, GM is notorious for posting pictures that were leaked or hacked as well.

while it's tempting to crap on Fox, it sounds like they handled it the best way they could.

hmm, is this all a cunning ploy to convert us all to Never Nudes?

There's an element of sexism to all the derision for Bronies. Not only are they fans of a kid's show, they're fans of a kid's show meant for girls. Fans of, I dunno, Adventure Time or ThunderCats don't get nearly as much scorn. Can't help but think it's because they're lowering themselves to like something feminine.

I don't think so at all. The physical burden of the mattress is strenuous, sure. But think of how walking in with a mattress will disrupt every class she goes to. How much room it takes up in an elevator. How it will slow/block traffic on a stairwell. Hell, how many people will be made uncomfortable by asking…

This was a totally fascinating read. There was pathos and self-reflection and emotional ups and downs. I'd watch this post in movie form.

So because of my Harry Potter obsession, I hesitate to judge anyone else's fandom, even if I don't get it.

I think that to some extent this is about going to a Con alone as much as anything. I've been to one for a different fandom by myself, had trouble getting to know people well, and had a similarly lousy time even though I was interested in the subject matter. I imagine the experience is even more awkward as an outsider…