There were no sports on TV in my house when I was growing up. Ever. Not even the Super Bowl. There was lots of Star Wars and Star Trek and Dr. Who, but no sports of any kind. My disinterest in sports was magnified by school, where they would ask us to play sports in gym class but wouldn't explain the rules (because…

I've been thinking about this lately, as TLC has been promoing Toddlers and Tiaras, and those shows are giving us a better idea of what the "pageant circuit" is in this country. I remember a show, it was probably 60 Minutes, doing a bit when JonBenet Ramsey was killed, and they interviewed all these women who did…

@Cafezinha FINALLY HAS HER STAR—OMGYAYTHXHORTENSE!: I hate it when my friends do that to me! Oh, I'm so sorry.

Dr. Chang's baby didn't look Asian, even though Dr. Chang and his wife both did. I saw speculation elsewhere that might have been baby Charlotte, since she said something about being raised on the island.

@ShinyMcShine: I don't think they're going to drag it out. Court is only back in session in March, which is why they're even waiting that long to hear it. I think they're as eager to get this over with as the rest of us.

@tonightineed is a liberal feminist elitist from Not-Real Am...: The state supreme court will be hearing the case in March. The issues they'll be discussing:

@Lymed: Wait, people would pay money?!? I was just thinking sexual favors, but if I could pay my rent too... Anyone got any children I could borrow? They'll come home with a new piggy bank!

Ha, I wish I had a video camera at Christmas. I painted piggy banks for all my cousin's babies, but packaged them in plain brown boxes. When my cousin's four-year-old tore the paper off, someone asked her what it was and she said, with true excitement: "A really nice box!"

@RisaPlata: Oh, also? The terrorists have big nail clippers as part of their uniforms.

@rosasparks: I got a chance to read the script before it came out, which made me ever so excited to see it. My favorite?

@linnyt: Yeah, we're in a depression, but it's no Great Depression. I know, people keep throwing the words around, but in the Great Depression:

@TheFormerJuneBronson: I'm with you, except I'd have to lose about six inches off my height. I love vintage, but they just didn't used to make people tall!

@musicpup is worth twenty camels: I don't have a problem with legalized prostitution for the sake of devaluing and hopefully dissolving the exploitation- making it so the prostitutes are women who really want to do this for their work and not women who feel they have no other options and nowhere to go for help. So the…

@BeSarcastic: That was a Simpsons episode! Except she was a person, so her arms did bend, but all the different "Joe's" were her actual ex-husbands. And her name was Malibu Stacy. She helped Lisa design an "empowering" doll that no one bought because the Malibu Stacy people came out with a new hat. And she lived in a…

@morninggloria: I had a boss once (we were, and still are, friendly) who would constantly be asking "is that just a man thing?" But about things that were wildly specific. Like, "my husband decided to remortgage our house because he got an e-mail saying he could get a better rate and he never talked to me about it. Is…

I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the awesomeness of The Incredibles. Superheroes that are men, women, children, white, black, but it's about their struggle to come to terms with their identity as a family. One of the best movies ever.

Yeah, this was something I actually had to re-learn recently. See, I grew up in New England, but now I live in Los Angeles and just go back for two weeks at Christmas and one week at Thanksgiving. And I got so good at living in LA that I forgot how to dress for cold, and froze for a couple years before I remembered…

@morninggloria: I know it's a different point you're making, but two things that changed my life:

@CollegeBookworm: I thought I could take it. I was all "hamster on a piano? Pffft. Easy." And you know what? I CANNOT TAKE IT. IT'S TOO MUCH! I MUST WATCH AGAIN. AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN.

@say kaci: I always have a problem getting rid of clothing, even if I don't or shouldn't wear it anymore, because I attach memories to it. So the solution I devised is to once a year, go through all my closets and drawers and put everything I need to get rid of in a box and put that box in the back of my closet. The…