Our consumer-driven society in the west demands variety and can pay for it. In countries like Nigeria (where I lived briefly as a child) where people are necessarily more frugal, it is common for a product to come only in one brand/size/color.

12 Monkees? Didn't they do that song, "I'm a Believer (in Time Travel)"?

I wish more people would say this so that there could be more diversity of voices on this. So many people say that they fell in love with their baby at first sight, or that they already loved them before the little critter was even born. I wanted my baby, he was planned. But I didn't love him for a while. And I like…

Guys speaking Latin are sexy. Ad infinitum.

I'm pretty sure that those are actors rather than strangers. It looks like most of them are wearing mics and there's really no way they could get the multiple perspectives on some of the people without multiple takes. (It could be multiple cameras and a parabolic mic, but I am convinced that I see the pickups on the…

My friend's pediatrician's office has a sign that reads, "__ days since the last trampoline injury." The number is usually set at zero or one.

I think the word you're looking for is "satisfied."

I've heard of people using them as more complex Arduinos. For instance you could program it to control your house lighting and sprinkler system, or do a fantastic LED light show, or collect weather data, and on and on.

Have you gone back to myspace or do you just not socially network? Is Twitter the new Facebook?

"[A]lmost a quarter of children in America are sexually abused before the age of 18"? I looked online to try to find something to back this up. On the Stop Abuse Campaign site it says that a third of kids will be "physically or sexually abused by age 18," but on other sites I see that 80,000 cases of sexual abuse are…

That's what I think every time I see Rush Limbaugh.

"She's a rock and I'm fragglin' slowly..."

Considering the other comments on this article, there is still a smelly underbelly (and perhaps some well-meaning but simply ignorant people) who persist in thinking that the pay gap does not exist. More publicity is clearly needed.

I'm shutting up now.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of the word "skive," but what I'm getting from this statement is that orgies are good because, like other collective work, you can be lazy. Isn't his country still ostensibly communist? And isn't a majority of their work supposed to be collective? Is he saying that he thinks his…

Why would anyone be storing the spirit of a death god in a vase? Don't they know that shit belongs in an amulet?

And yet don't you feel some curiosity as to where your vagina fits on the spectrum? I have a diverse racial heritage, and now I wonder if my vaginal walls are regular pink, standard, or light. It's a conundrum.

So weird! Unless you are that person: Do you live in Denver by chance?

This might explain something that has perplexed me for a while: I was working at a restaurant and was serving a guy with a pronounced but utterly believable British accent. "Where are you from?" I asked. "New York City," he replied. "No, I mean originally. Where in England?" "I've never lived in England. I'm from…

That sounds like a reality show that I would actually watch.