Yes, that must be big part of it. Even the covers reinforce that image (Look at the happy couple! How sweet; women like that stuff).

It's fine that abstract art and conceptual art aren't your things, but that's no basis for dismissing them entirely. I don't get organized sports (at all!) and I don't have any interest in learning more about them, but I appreciate that they more than silly self indulgent endeavours, and respect practitioners and…

What perplexes me about this is how open that generation seems to be about reading what is essentially porn. No judgement! It just seems surprising that they keep the books on open bookshelves, read them in public,, etc.

I don't understand that at all.

On the contrary.

I agree that it's important to promote (and facilitate) healthy living. However, I don't see why it's necessary to bring weight into that discussion at all. Sedentary life and poor eating habits affect everyone who partakes in them, regardless of whether these people are fat or skinny. Children should learn to eat…

I'm unaffected by coffee, but certainly not blissfully so. It doesn't keep me up at night, but then it doesn't wake me up in the morning (or afternoon, or during attempts at working late) either.

Sausagea sounds like a continent name... A sausage continent.

Lucrecia Slim!

It doesn't mean anything. Most traditional French names don't have an specific meaning (although people sometimes enjoy digging through possible etymologies to come up with what the name *might* mean).

Someone needs to compile all of these La-sha stories to write a biography.

It is! I've met three tiny Henry's this year, the name seems to have suddenly boomed in popularity.

Nudity doesn't necessarily call up child-porn laws.

I just wanted to thank you for articulating it so clearly.

Good question!

Definitely!

Yes, attitudes vary wildly - I've never lived in an area where it was normal to take good care of one's own animals, let alone of strays. I had a hard time getting my cats spayed (we have super expensive vets, but no readily affordable vet services, even though average incomes are low here) and was shocked by how many…

This is true. Then you get academic dreams (I occasionally wake up in a cold sweat after dreaming of some key argument that I forgot to include in a paper).

I wonder to what degree the differences are a natural result of the job itself (irregular schedule, long hours, and so on) and to what degree they are a result of the social and cultural environment fostered by different jobs (in some cases, people are almost expected to have a cavalier attitude about their health, or…

I don't think that there is anything theoretically wrong with no-kill shelters - in an ideal world, that's all we would have (exceptions made for health etc.). I think that in practice, they are often problematic.