I was watching the pilot of Mad Men recently, and when Joan told Peggy that she had cute ankles and she should show them off, I started to wonder when we became a tits and ass culture to the extent where they have taken away my right to have cute ankles.

@TheFormerJuneBronson: I think the part that really kills me is knowing that this doesn't mean she's in favor of civil unions. Her brother is gay, and they only communicate so she can tell him he's going to hell. (This was her response when he announced he was engaged, to tell him he was going to hell.) So: racist,…

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs....: You are one degree of separation from cool! That's so cool!

@precipice: And there's a bunch of comments now from her friends saying "very well said!" She may be blindingly ignorant, but she's not dumb. She should know better!

A family member posted this on her Facebook:

My cousin today was trying to tell me that public-option healthcare means that the government can tell him what medical procedures he can have. I told him Roe v Wade means it can't. I'm thinking perhaps I had my specifics wrong, although I still think I'm right in principle.

A summary, for anyone who doesn't want to read the whole thing: I'm having feelings. This is entirely your problem, because I do not have control over myself or my reactions. For instance, I can only sit through movies with the help of opiates, and that makes me sad. Maybe you're horny. I know I can't possibly be…

And Dr. Horrible is nominated! Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs. It's up against the Bruce Springsteen Superbowl halftime show.

@dj_chick: Don't forget that British pounds are different! Plus, are these pounds off-the-rack, or did she make her own gravity? IMPORTANT QUESTIONS!

@PilgrimSoul: I MAKE 70 CENTS TO THE DOLLAR THAT MEN MAKE SO I'M A REAL FEMINIST. TEENAGERS MOSTLY GET MINIMUM WAGE. Wait, what?

When I'm alone, I flap my hands or sign to myself. Not talk to myself. Sign. But I don't do it when other people can see me because I'm pretty sure they would, at the very least, suggest medication.

@kellieherson: I don't have to, but I cross my toes, including the little ones, all the time when my shoes are off.

At first I thought the "interpretive dance" was sign language. I caught "follow" and a whole lot of "strong"s, but then I turned the volume up and realized nope, not sign language. Or if it is, it's coincidental. And then they did their little circle dance which is definitely not a normal part of interpreting. So I…

They also seem to believe that adoption is just so easy. Reminds me of the episode of 30 Days when they sent a pro-choice activist to live in one of those pregnancy-crisis-centers (this was one where pregnant women could live and were shown anti-abortion videos and had to go protest clinics that provided abortion in…

This isn't exactly new. When I was a kid, my parents would take us to Cape Cod for a week every summer and we always played with the little plastic tubes on the beach. I was much much older before my parents told me what those were and I was like, "why did you let us play with them?" And they figured at that point the…

@bluebears: As I understand it, disenvoweling is a way of saying "don't go there." So when you respond in any way, you're "going there," which they just (indirectly) asked you not to do. Does that make sense? Or are you talking about times you think someone might have been unjustly disemvoweled, and if they explained…

@leftyleftylou: I did not know this. I'm fascinated, both by its existence and that it's not common knowledge.

@Penny_Esq has a new job!: Here: [laist.com]

@elephantshoes: You may have heard of Prop 13. The voters passed it... I dunno when. Before I got here. But it freezes property taxes at the value of the property when you bought it. So people who bought houses in 1978 for $30,000 are paying taxes as if their houses were still worth $30,000 and not $1.3 million, which…

@BeckySharper: They estimate they could get $1 billion taxing pot. Our estimated shortfall for next year is at least $20 billion (I stopped keeping track). Not to say that we shouldn't do it, because we totally should, but it's not the only answer.