You really think so? Because for me the whole story was told within the first 30 seconds of him meeting Samantha. I know what it means when one person can read a whole book in a fraction of second and the other one can't. The rest was a slow march toward the inevitable. Bored out of my goddamn mind by the story. The…

Well, at least she knows who she is. Because if I were to write a Kristen Stewart poem, it'd go something like that.

The recession didn't hit metro DC in any significant way. Also: old money in NoVa.

Haha! I sold a saddle on consignment there once . . . and then bought a whole bunch of wine and beer. It's a great store.

I read Good in Bed the year it came out. I was so excited for a plus-size heroine. But I hated the ending. I wasn't even a feminist yet! I felt betrayed that the heroine became skinny in the end, and I haven't read any Weiner books since then.

You might be right. But when I looked over it, it looks like it's still an issue of access; if you were to, say, boat from NY to NJ, get out, and swim ashore, you'd have a number of feet of beach you can cross without being in violation of the law. You're right that it effectively makes NJ beaches private, though.…

It's not a matter of beaches "should" be public; beaches legally are public. You can walk on and lay out on any damn beach you please. You also have the right to walk along rivers and streams. What you don't have the right to do is walk thru private property to get there. So when beachfront houses are stacked on top…

I just broke up with mine . . . so, ladies, there's a six foot ready-to-commit ginger ambling about the Midwest. You're welcome.

My advice is that puffy coats are the way to go. I am a very fluffy girl and my puffy coat adds a good 75lbs (in appearance) to my physique and I don't care. I am never, never cold in mine.

I agree that this was excellent. Though I feel like when Jezebel does decide to do journalism Journalism, they do it well.

Perfect! Thank you so much! It's contemporary.

I didn't think you were saying that Sunny is a bad dog. I just dispute your position that a dog that is good with kids doesn't knock them over. Kids fall all the time, sometimes just tripping over their own feet. A better measure of whether a dog is good with kids is how careful she is with her mouth and claws,…

There's nothing obvious about your statement. The girl got knocked over. She got back up. She didn't cry. She was fine. Sometimes getting knocked over is part of the fun of being a kid around dogs.

I need a woman's name. She's a solid citizen with some spiritual angst but not a biblical name. Maybe a little bit of a romantic hero, but not an -ella or -elle. Not a Spanish or Italian name. And it has to be a name-name, not a word name (not Opal, Daisy, Prudence, Summer, etc).

I like picturing old-lady Kaylas pitching a fit because their granddaughters aren't naming their children after them.

Rosalind is great! It's been on several friends' lists without making the final cut.

It's one of those names that sort of sticks with you, isn't it? I loved Arthurian legend when I was a teenager, and Guinevere stuck with me . . . but your kid isn't going to have that same experience with it. She won't ever fall in love with the name the way you do. It's a great name for a character or for a horse,…

The major advantage of Baby Center lists as opposed to SSA lists is that Baby Center makes Sofia=Sophia, whereas the SSA list does not, so it's less confusing to read the list and think, "Hang on, I thought that name was number one . . . Oh, for crying out loud!"

Oy, congrats on next bebe! Are you on nameberry, fellow name-nerd?

You read my thoughts well.