"Pro-life" as applied to the anti-abortion crowd is BS in any case—but even most of them must recognize how ridiculous it sounds when applied to murderers.

I think what dogs learn is that acting cute will get them pets—"cute," of course, to be defined by the ambient humans.

As opposed to your tip: "Why go to the effort of checking your own facts and doing your own thinking when you can simply regurgitate whatever memes you find on right-wing blogs, AM radio blowhard programs and FOX News? Saves oodles of time!"

Slightly OT, but a valid concern about the connection between health and weight (although not high BMI, specifically) has to do with what happens after you become incapacitated—from anything: stroke, meningitis, hit by a bus, whatever. If you're heavy (not necessarily fat), the job of anyone who has to physically move…

Oh, you poor, poor thing.

I suspect that (a) smilin' Mitt Romney never outgrew that high-school bully thing; and (b) the missus is absolutely terrified of the scene he'd make in private if she went off-message in public.

FWIW, irony and sarcasm really don't come through very well on the Internet.

Re 6E, your friend's kids: If you don't want kids, it's an especially good idea to make friends with your friends' kids (also, with your kid relatives: nieces, nephews, your cousins' kids, etc).

Alternative hypothesis: Mitt isn't anex-bully, and she's afraid to go off-message.

It's particularly telling that even an ultra-orthodox man who wasn't down with this treatment of women [1] didn't feel comfortable saying so publicly. Now, that's suppression.

That's Evil Glenn Beck.

There's no such thing as a First Lady Debate . . .

My heart goes out to your cousin—13, and with a mother so concerned with her "purity." Poor kid.

I don't know that show. But try your own taste test: Carrots are pretty cheap, the organic kind is widely available, and (IMO) the difference in flavor is quite pronounced. See what you think.

It tastes better. And food that you eat is 'way more nutritious than food you leave on your plate.

Yes. And what I don't get is, even if they believe this stuff (which they apparently do), what on earth do they think they're accomplishing by kvetching about this in public?

He's being tried for blasphemy? How about for trying to get a 13-year-old girl killed?

Thank you for the correction. I am happy to be wrong about this.

Personally, I'm very for gay marriage, 'cuz I'm actually married to another gay man in Washington DC.