Pretty much. He's a real prince, this one.

Yeah, he's basically saying "I will buy you a medium drip coffee, a large tea or a single espresso."

I think that your idea that the child has a fighting chance is so, so key here. Trisomy aside, the infant is also suffering from a debilitating heart condition. As terrible as it is, some children just will not live past infancy, no matter how advanced medical science gets. I'm not a doctor and can't diagnose this…

Your comment led me to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogacy…

Which I find super-interesting. Having lived outside the U.S. for some time, I know we have some, er, legalistic idiosyncrasies. But I didn't think surrogacy was one, and I certainly didn't expect even altruistic surrogacy to be so widely banned.

Happens to the best of us, bra.

After having spent a looonnggg time in the service and tourism industries (not flight attendant per se, but similar), I'm inclined to agree. The biggest assholes are usually the ones that feel they've paid for the privilege.

The owner of the last restaurant I worked with has considered adding a $.50 upcharge for menu substitutions. Some of my regulars would quickly see their bills go up by several dollars, because people seem to think that dining out is a Choose Your Own Adventure novel with no dead ends.

I'm not sure why, but I get the sense that British actors that start young seem to have a better grip on life than the kids that go through the Hollywood system. For one thing, while I'm sure the money's great, it doesn't seem to reach the astronomical figures that about in the US. Also, the kids are working…

Is that what they're called? "Christian Dominionists"? I usually call them "fucking crazy people" but obviously that can get confusing.

It kind of sounds like we need tailors.

In my experience, honesty is the best sales technique. I don't recommend menu items I don't like to my customers. I feel like that means when I do make a recommendation, it means more because people know I'm not just blowing smoke. (I've worked retail too, though it's been a super long time.)

You hang out in the store…

Canned applause at the gym is both hilarious and disconcerting.

My favorite part about ModCloth is the reviews. I took the plunge and ordered my first two dresses a couple months ago in wildly different sizes- but it was okay because I had read the reviews of women with similar heights, weights and (most importantly) bust sizes of mine to determine what I should order. Dead-on in…

Inclined to agree with you. At 5'4" and 117 lbs, I was buying the largest sizes available in Thai clothing markets. At the same time, isn't obesity on the rise worldwide? Expanding the sizing in both directions would be ideal but hey, aspirational blah blah luxury blah pfffft.

(Too hot to make cogent sentences about…

GENIUS. It would be so great for female performers of all stripes if they could divorce their career prospects from the whole "HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO FUCK HER" joke that most of these articles end up being.

Best reason to make that mistake EVER. (I think I typed "red wedding" and deleted it like, four times in the course of my comment. Feel ya.)

I know! It's the fucking easiest thing you can do to make one of the most dangerous things we do safer and be polite. I don't understand the reason behind not doing it. I keep waiting to hear from someone on this board that's like "EVERYONE SHOULD BE DRIVING CAUTIOUSLY AROUND MY CRAZY ASS ANYWAY, JUST PAY ATTENTION…

Dammit! I just asked the same question- one day too late.

HOW IS UTAH NOT ON THIS LIST?

I got an abortion in Canada five years ago. While I didn't have one at the time, the clinic I went to did perform surgical abortions. I did, however, have a medical abortion, which I think you are referring to. There were vaginal suppositories, yes, but there was also an in-clinic injection, which actually stopped the…