My, my. Awfully free with the comparisons, isn't he, for someone who has spent his entire adult life attempting to create his own personal Aryan race?

THANK YOU. And also, a little bit shut up to whomever actually said to her (if that indeed really happened) that they believed in marriage and the John Edwards affair just ruined all of that. If your belief in marriage itself is so simultaneously rigid and fragile that weeniepants John Edwards could ruin everything,…

Wait, wait, wait—isn't that package of chicken still factory-shrinkwrapped? Everyone needs to just relax, here. Foodborne bacteria is pernicious, but it's not magical. Factory-sealed packages of chicken should not be covered in chicken juice. The bigger issue here is that strawberries are out of season.

Arguing with an anti-carb zealot is like one of those "getting involved in a land war with Russia" things.

Yes, THAT was the part that really got to me. This is not the person in whose hands you want to leave your event planning, I think.

This seems like such a weird argument to me. Not as it applies to her, just in general. It sort of discounts the whole value of performance itself in performed comedy. Someone without any comedic talent at all isn't going to be able to make even great writing work, ever.

Completely disagree with your last point. It's the words of funny people given voice by the performance of a funny person. Two different ways of being funny. Some people can do both, but only doing one doesn't mean she's not legitimately funny.

Kate Moss got a ton of flak for that, but it's been a popular slogan in Weight Watchers for a long time. (probably elsewhere, too.)

This is SO GREAT! I bet it's nice for the window washers, too—people are probably usually indifferent to and/or slightly annoyed by their presence—what a great thing to see a little face light up in every window.

That's an interesting question. I'm not sure. The first idea ("as long as she's happy and healthy") has to do with keeping tabs on her personal status, while the second idea has to do with a public act (commercial endorsement). I think you could make a solid argument either way.

She's hilarious, for sure. Are she and Matt Lucas still roommates? I love thinking about what it must be like to live there (in spite of having just said her personal life is not my business).

I would argue that even if Rebel Wilson is NOT happy and healthy as she is, we should leave her alone. It's not really my business to monitor Rebel Wilson's health.

Not only are most people reasonable, but honestly, most people aren't going to remember within 5 years whether you gave them a gift or not, unless it's a super-standout gift. (which I guess makes me sound ungrateful, also—I guess the thing I mean here is that, in my case, I got a lot of gifts from our registry. And…

Exactly my thought. It's verrrrrry common for bunnies to start smelling up the place.

I feel like maybe I should stop taking part in the pile-on because I wonder if I'm getting a little mean-spirited here, but I'm also appalled by her suggestion that when you attend "ANY party, you...offer to chip in to pay for the celebration." Which...what? That's the sort of thing that people used to find…

Oh my word, please tell us you're not throwing your own birthday dinners at which you "invite" people to show up and pay for you?

Exactly...and honestly, I'd never heard of this among Italian-Americans UNTIL I movd to the Northeast, so I think what we're talking about here is a tradition that is practiced among a subset of Italian-Americans based in the Northeast, but not all Italian-Americans in the Northeast. So, a cultural subset of a…

I bet making an entire dress out of lentils would probably be pretty expensive, really.

But that's just inaccurate. Etiquette guides do NOT advise that, because etiquette is a set of principles that govern social interaction. What you're talking about is a commercial exchange.

Is it the skinny thing? At a certain age, for men especially, being super string-beany starts to look creepy. (though there is, of course, what's known as the David Tennant Exception.)