You are assuming that any of these people would have recognized performance art if it had been staged in their own living rooms...

Ha! I hate her, too. I've read a few and they just seem to go on too long with no reason for their length.

It already was a bestseller. It's a book by Jodi Picoult. The teachers who assigned this book are hardly breaking literary ground here. Back when it came out you could have bought it in every Walgreens and every airport bookstore along with the latest John Grisham novel. I've got no beef with reading for the…

Okay, I can get behind that!

Even if a book is based on debunked science it shouldn't be banned.

The Handmaid's Tale and The Bluest Eye have actually been banned by my school district in this exact same way. Parents showed up and read the "dirty" bits of the book during the public comment time at the board meeting and the five school board members, (who are all elected and paid $2K more than a first year teacher…

Good point.

I didn't want to "star" your reply because I'm never sure if that's implying that I think what you have described is a good thing or not. But I am so glad you replied to my original comment. My undergraduate university has had its own share of asshattery, but at least they managed to kick out Kappa Alpha ("Southern…

True enough. I wish all celebrities would do that. Society would be healthier for it.

I don't know. As a woman in my 50's I think her emphatic insistence that she is still a sexual being can be viewed as kind of revolutionary.

I've got no idea if Madonna's had anything done to her breasts. But your breasts are your breasts. They're not a blueprint for what Madonna's breasts look like, right? I am also almost her age, have never had children, and mine are just where I left them at about 25. Aging isn't a one-size fits all experience.

As someone who can vividly remember watching her perform "Like a Virgin" at the VMA awards back in 1984 I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Well, of course Wintour didn't completely approve of that outfit. You forgot to tell her about the terry cloth slippers and mismatched tube socks. Geesh.

Silly Rabbit, sex is for kids! Why, if old people start displaying their bodies they're running a serious risk of grossing out people in their 20's. We can't have that.

I believe that there are certain qualities that may be worthy of rape.

Colloquially, it's called a "simple annulment" if a marriage between two non-Catholics is found invalid. It's not as lengthy a process as an annulment of a marriage between two Catholics.

Oh, I see. Well, in that case the non-Catholic husband had been validly married to his previous spouse because any marriage he entered into was valid. He needed an annulment. His previous wife had not been validly married because as a Catholic she was obligated to be married by a priest or deacon. She would not…

Honestly, if your friend is Catholic then he didn't really need anything from his ex-wife. The fact that he was married in a non-Catholic ceremony is proof enough that his marriage was not valid as far as the Church is concerned. However, his new wife (who you said is a divorced non-Catholic) must have had her…

A baptized Catholic can only be married validly by a Catholic priest or a deacon. (Please note that I am using canonical terms here and I'm not being judgmental.) So, producing a baptismal certificate does not render a Catholic's non-Catholic marriage invalid — it always was invalid. The baptismal certificate just…

Actually most Catholic divorced folks can get married again in the Church if they go through the annulment process first. It varies by geography, but in the US anyway the overwhelming majority of annulments are granted and those people are free to marry again.