My father, who is extremely intelligent by most standards, was left-wing when he was young but over the course of his life has gotten more and more conservative, to the point that I'm pretty sure he spends most of his day listening to right-wing radio talk shows now that he's retired. My smart, talented, competent…

I think candy_pants thought you were saying "Go, reusable Kate!" when you were actually saying "Go reusable, Kate!"

Dodai, I hope I can be as badass as you when I'm 40. I'm working on it every day, so we'll see.

"How did my little girl die?"

OMG. If The Giver is made into a movie, I will see it ten times in the theater, once for every time I read the book during the summer between seventh and eighth grades.

For real. How can food taste so good?

From the video, it looks like the "porn" was a user-generated pattern uploaded to the Exchange. Last I heard, patterns could be reported, but weren't being monitored. The kids probably found it before anyone reported it.

I have, actually; I've worked at Targets in two different states. Nobody ever complained to me about being offended by anything we sold, and I never heard of it happening to any of my coworkers, either (not that that means it didn't happen), but I think most of us would have been more amused than annoyed if someone…

I am so confused by some of these comments. It's a guy. He apparently identifies as a guy. He's wearing men's clothing. Bookstores stock magazines; they don't make them. If the hypothetical people who would complain to BN or Borders are unsatisfied with these facts, then they are unreasonable people who are not really…

Is it because of our society's propensity for awarding masculinity and demeaning femininity?

I stopped wearing makeup every day when I was unemployed, and even now I only use a little concealer. People treat me exactly the same as they did before. I wish I'd done this sooner; it would have saved me a lot of money.

But marriage is all through the Bible, and it's not gender-neutral.

So I just found out that my cousin's two-year-old son was recently diagnosed with allergies to nuts, dairy, eggs, and soy. NOT feeding him meat is what would be child abuse.

I just cannot get enough of the electric turquoise makeup in Pop Africana. MORE. MORE!

Of course you can use food to influence the sex of your baby! Three apples for a boy, and three watermelons for a girl, although I've found it really only works if you do it before she knows she's...wait, this isn't about The Sims? Never mind.

@ja5mine: In this situation? Complain to the management at that Target. I used to work there, so I know softlines can be pretty bad, but she was wrong and I guarantee she knew it.

What's that at the shoulder on the Gucci? A knot? A rosette? Anyway, that one's my pick. It would suit her frame perfectly.

I wonder whether they had controls for spelling and sentence mechanics. Seriously, I am curious.

If I were to look in the mirror right now, I would definitely see a bloodless, sallow skin tone and smaller, duller eyes. (Final paper due in...dammit, only nine hours now.)

As a current U of M grad student, I hope that this doesn't give people a bad impression of the school. At the same time, though, I have no idea what actually happened, and it's certainly possible that the environment she was working in was different from my little corner o'bleeding hearts. The U is just this huge…