It seems like it MUST be in the employee handbook, which sure nobody ever reads after their first day, but there's gotta be a copy in the store for the manager to check. Sheesh.

But wait — Beck's a Mormon too, right? Even more complicated....

Oh my god, I think "violet baudelaire" would be a great name for it too!

Sin Mitten might be my favorite ever.

I guess that I will add that some of my reaction is, really, why is it necessary that we like all women? Meaning that it's okay for women to be unlikable (many men are) and it shouldn't undermine our opinions of them professionally. Who cares what Allred is like as a person if she's getting it done for her clients?…

To the points here, is it possible that she's still doing good feminist work? No lawyer I know has only one client. She has high-profile cases and I'm sure she has low-profile cases too.

The states do have some right to interpret laws according to their own constitutions, especially when the claim is that the state offers more rights than the fed. So I can imagine a state saying, oh look, that's a protected act here in [insert name of state] because of the whole religion thing! The Supremes have said…

Some friends of mine published this, which is awesome and might be helpful to you:

But what I really want to know is, how are the actors who play doctors on TV paid? Do the men who say "I play one on TV" also make more than the women who do the same? Otherwise that illustrative promo shot from whatever-that-show-is-called doesn't make any sense to me.

I guess there's a new stupidest phrase in the world: [en.wikipedia.org]

Yes. Well. I'm supposed to be taking a Constitutional Rights take-home final right now, but I'm on Jezebel instead. If only I could get extra credit for that idea!

In the absence of actual rules, I wonder if you could, say, file a medical intent-to-abort document (sort of like a medical power of attorney, tho you'd keep control for yourself — I may be making this super-unclear and maybe I should just read the law). But! What if you could file a legal document with your health…

I suspect that if they'd shot the guys instead the entire state would have shrugged its shoulders and declined to prosecute. Funny how that is.

Katrina could just as easily be talking about sites like this one, which sucks me in for the gossip and then gets me all worked up about the real issues. Nice work, all!

My mom tells this great story about training my dad to be a better conversationalist, and it seems like her advice then (which I swear he lives by) works in this situation too:

Throw a heating pad in there and you're golden. I seem to have, like, five of them, so if sacrificing one to Miss Milly Mae Cupcake Maguire is what it takes to have the keyboard back, I'm in.

Talbot's is pretty good for plus, and they have it in the stores. It's not as frumpish as it once was. Also, I have twice found okay skirts at Avenue. Online, Eileen Fisher is very forgiving (and it doesn't have to look hip old lady-ish). Locally, I find that the Macy's and Dillards plus sections are GHASTLY, nothing…

They all say that they don't want the gig. It's customary to claim you don't want it and then to gracefully agree when pressed by your party.

The chattering classes in New Mexico think Governor Martinez is quite unlikely. New Mexico has so little pull in the electoral college that it's almost a throw-away if she's on there. Not that there's all that much evidence that the VP pick means anything electorally, but VP-choosing seems to be rather like voodoo.

Hearts and stars! I can only give the former, but I can say #COTD just because you're so RIGHT.