I HAVE one of those rainbow tumblers! I got it at the action figure/gay pride store in Chicago. It is just as awesome in real life as it is in the picture.

For some reason, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" always seems to come on the radio while I'm trying to drive through a blizzard.

I would complain about most of my favorite Christmas songs being here, but Christmas Shoes is obviously going to win this, so whatever.

Thanks! It's my college class ring. As I said to palegirl just now, I didn't even notice until I got home (stubby, fleshy fingers: good for something after all), but I am just so hardcore that apparently I can lift weights and smelt metal at the same time.

Yup! I actually didn't even notice until I got home, but I think it must have been a dumbbell.

Duct tape may fix the hole in my sole, but will it fix the hole in my soul?

There are other dangers as well.

South Carolina jokester and part time ex politician Todd Kincannon had some other choice lady insults to add, tweeting that Pelosi was a cunty bitchwhore.

That's what a friend of mine and her husband did. (They both changed their names to the hyphenate.)

Everybody hyphenates, but girls pass on their mother's half and boys pass on their father's half.

Yeah, exactly. This thread is full of women talking about how happy they were to ditch their inconvenient last names. Where are the men doing the same?

For real. I have so many books that I haven't read, and I just keep buying them. What the hell is my problem.

Oh god, I can't stop laughing.

More to the point: fun increases proportional to difficulty.

Such practical suggestions! Thank you!

I would LOVE to have a mentor. Does anyone have tips on finding one (in the corporate world especially), or on asking someone without looking like a total doofus?

Haha, I sing it in my head every time I place a 9 in a sudoku grid. Never gets old.

Abortions for some; miniature American flags for others!

Ooh, I remember discovering these when I went to Chicago last year. I felt weird for thinking that they were pretty much the highlight of my all-around-fun Field experience; it was kind of surreal. It did not help that the museum was pretty busy, but the bathrooms were almost deserted.

But is having a kid really "noble," whether you planned for it or not? I think it is what it is. I also think this is what Feldt was talking about when she said that "the more [a woman] is in control of her life, saying this is the life I choose, the less people support it." There is nothing wrong with assuming total…