Exactly. Thank you.

And isn't a "chicken-free strip" just a "strip?"

I'm not very likely to take out an ad in the newspaper criticizing President Obama for his looks when I'm sarcastically suggesting such a newspaper ad to point out that he really needn't judge people's looks. I worked hard for the man and I gave him what was a substantial amount of money to get him elected on two…

True enough.

You're so right. I can't possibly be considered pretty and also be someone who disagrees with you. Alternatively, perhaps, maybe your individual experience is not the norm for the rest of the world's population? But thanks for making my larger point about how often people feel comfortable unnecessarily commenting…

We can certainly disagree, but the words "best-looking" sound to me like a judgment based on looks. Yes, he praised her intelligence and her strength, but then he felt it was okay to also comment on her attractiveness and I'm heartily sick and tired of hearing women's looks referenced in professional situations where…

I'm not one to comment on pictures of male bodies because I don't think it's helpful, although others definitely disagree with me and they are, of course, entitled to their opinions. If California's attorney general had deliberately posed nude for a magazine and President Obama had wanted to comment on that, however,…

Women are not show ponies. Some of us are tired of being judged on our looks even when that judgment is couched as a compliment.

Well, since I don't have that experience then I guess your story can't be true.

You don't get to tell me what I find offensive. And it's not "nothing." It's very tiresome that a women's looks are seem to be so regularly considered fair game for comments.

There are six other female, Democratic, state attorneys general (I believe.) I suggest they take out a full page ad in the Washington Post reading, "Obama — He's smart, he's dedicated, and he's tough. He also happens to have some seriously huge ears. And while we're at it, what's up with that weird mole on the left…

Oh, I am not fan of excessive standardized testing. I was just commenting on the article's contention that there are no ramifications for blowing one off. Another commenter, though, clarified that the STAAR is being used only for data collection at this point.

Ah, that makes more sense now. Thanks for the information. The article was a bit sparse.

In an article on Huffington Post some years ago, Karen Finney wrote that her father is African-American and her mother is a descendant of Robert E. Lee! I wish someone would let Tim Graham know that so we could watch his head explode.

The writer of this piece wrote those thoughts for him.

While taking a state's standardized tests may not be a worthwhile use of a student's time, it's not accurate to say that it doesn't affect status in college admissions and is ultimately meaningless in greater society. Failure to pass the thing may land you in remedial classes which will go on your transcript plus…

Well, that's okay, I guess, since I left the word "as" out of my first sentence. But thanks for replying. I was doubting my command of English!

Can hirsute be used a noun? I thought it was an adjective. I'm certainly willing to admit I'm wrong, however.

Being so influenced by a single interviewee that it skews the obituary that you wrote to the point that your employer had the thing rewritten is called reporting? Okay, if you say so.

Ah, I see how you got that from what I wrote. What happens is that whenever we need to list the 100+ people in our organization for one reason or another the default is Ms. Last Name which is more efficient than spending time trying to find out what every single person would prefer to be called. When people tell me…