It's plausible, I suppose, that the plaintiff is the only young woman Weberman abused in this way. However, I wouldn't be overly surprised if other stories started to come out.

Enough people do this that I'm not sure whether this it's a gaffe or general change in usage, but I've noticed that people other than me aren't using "who" or "whom" when referring to other humans.

That's great, but bear in mind that if you and your sister do a good job, your mom will want you to do it next year.

Never mind what people usual make it with.

BTW: Best short story about fruitcake ever: Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory.

Some of us put a layer of almond paste on top of our fruitcakes, sealed with an icing that's basically what the Brits call "hard sauce": kind of a buttercream made of confectioner's sugar, butter and booze.

Forgive the kibitzing, but would she like it if you made the fruitcake this year?

I make it every year, and it's freaking delicious.

Lose It! is what I've been using. I've always found food diaries too much trouble to keep up for any length of time, but this one's pretty unintrusive. It does count calories, but if you exercise, it counts those calories too (in negative numbers). It also tracks your weight. Oh, and it's free.

One woman?

I am sure that among both men and women in the military, of whatever rank, can be found flaming horses' asses (as this is certainly true in civilian life).

Well, of course it's rampant among the developmentally disabled.

Right, because men are always more competent, and women are just as disinclined to take rape seriously.

Other good news from the CDC report: Terminations in pregnant girls under the age of 15 went up. (Seriously, is there any good reason why abortion shouldn't be the default position for a pregnancy in a girl that young?)

I don't know your relative, but you might point out that all preventative medicine is covered—and preventative medicine is, by definition, cheaper than the other kind.

Don't stay with your family, if you can avoid it. Even if you get along beautifully with them, all that enforced togetherness, shared bathrooms, make-shift sleeping arrangements, etc, can grate. Get a hotel room.

It's conceivable that no physician in that hospital had ever actually seen, let alone performed, a termination before; I'm guessing it's not required for physicians in such an anti-abortion country.

So when some general has a genuinely trivial, consensual affair that affects national security in no discernible way, we're all forced to hear it analyzed for days on end because the UCMJ has a section on adultery—but in addressing the endemic pattern of rape and sexual intimidation in the military (also against the…

Best way: Be a fictional character whose writer makes all your inferences turn out to be right on the money.

Look, if (a) the Health Commission figures it's a good idea; (b) the good people of San Francisco figure it's a good idea; and (c) San Franciscans who want the surgery think it's a good idea—then I'm not sure it matters what anyone else thinks.