I was pleasantly surprised as well. I always thought her talent was primarily for showmanship (not to be catty—it's showmanship at its best, and she has a genuine talent for it), but she has really pleasant voice.

I think (a) he believed he was making a funny and (b) he's really bad at it.

Most job applicants get Googled nowadays, just as a quick check by prospective employers.

He pointed at my outfit and said, 'Don't you think your shorts are a little short?'

Better yet, can we start going after use of that mendacious phrase, period? It's a term of spin. A lie.

How lame, how ill-informed, how poorly reasoned must your position be on a subject before your means of defending it includes censoring people who disagree—even when (as in this case) there's no particular reason to think they're going to discuss the issue in question?

For what it's worth: Scientists, like other academics, usually have their own websites (or pages, at least) at their institutions. If you really want to read a science article that's behind a paywall, try the authors' websites. They'll often include PDFs of what they consider to be their best publications.

Note that ab-ed does not prepare anyone to have sex specifically after marriage.

Generally, I'd agree with you.

I'm in my 50s, and grew up before these vaccines. My sisters and I had the best possible outcomes for what were then standard childhood diseases: a houseful of little girls, spending at least a week itchy, weak, feverish, headache-y, throwing up at least a couple of times a day and utterly miserable before making…

Their favorite foods, whatever they are.

FACT: Historically, Republicans have been on the forefront of creating public funds for basic science research.

She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result.

You might also notice that, semantically, this "life" of which they're so pro is either undefined, or defined in such an abstract manner as to be virtually meaningless—conveniently allowing them to use it any way that suits their purpose at the moment.

It sounds lovely.

Miserable damaged bitch.

Interestingly, you don't even need some exotic sort of poppies to do this. The kind your grandma grows in the front yard work just fine. Which is odd—how can the DEA et al. expect to control something that you can buy legally from 'most any good-sized nursery or seed company?

As a factoid about her, yeah, it's trite.

Yeah. One thing about women physicians around that age is their remarkably high suicide rate, about quadruple that of most women ([www.medscape.com] ). In my opinion, it's because women (but not men) in medicine are commonly expected to forgo every freaking thing in their lives for their careers. Training tends to…

In the first place, one of the religious nut jobs who thinks God's judgment affects these things is the state governor, so the plurality of Texans who voted for him are at least okay with that view. That may not be "every conservative," but it is an astonishingly large portion of regional conservatives.