For the people getting mad at SAG and the WGA: they're not the ones doing the hiring. They are representatives of actors and writers, and doing their best to get them jobs however possible. They would like for producers to hire people regardless of age, too, but they don't have the power to make it happen. "Make…

Another issue is that, in Hollywood, jobs will typically last a few months to a year, which means you're constantly being hired. This makes it impossible to, for instance, sue someone for discrimination, because you'll simply never get hired again and there isn't anything you can do about it. The phrase "you'll never…

@didntmeanto: My dad once "caught what I had," not realizing that what I had were cramps bad enough to make me throw up repeatedly. And a boyfriend who actually did catch my 24-hr flu and insisted he "lost 20 pounds" from one night of vomitting. While I held his hair back.

@eloiseonahill: Very true. Now, if you'll excuse me, my office has Friday lunch hour Rock Band and it's almost time.

No one ever told me that if you're president, you get to sing with Paul McCartney! I may have to rethink my career goals.

@Mrs. Stephen Fry: LOL by itself doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when it is used instead of making an actual reply (if your only role in the conversation is to tell me I'm being funny, I'm talking to myself and that's rude) and when used instead of punctuation. I know a particular young woman who uses LOL in…

@ink: re-do, like, re-do the curriculum for kids? Or, like, re-teach everyone who already had sex ed? 'Cause I'm thinking the most effective course might be to re-teach the adults first.

@Leets: They mean things like this: [consumerist.com]

Here's a fun game: re-arrange the letter!

@MissHathaway: That concerns me. A LOT of penguins died in that movie. Seriously, every other shot was a dead penguin.

My junior prom was also my birthday. (My school didn't have a senior prom; seniors were technically invited to the junior prom, but I didn't attend that one.) My mother was several states away with my dying grandfather, but came home for that weekend. My aunt did my makeup. I had bad acne, and she kept insisting that…

@vladdy: Depends.

@Jellybish: He started to bring up men not taking paternity leave, but I've talked with him before about how feminism believes in men's rights too and paternity leave should absolutely be a bigger thing, so he dropped it pretty quickly. He thought that "no one is entitled to children," but I told him I think companies…

@MagsCO: Target to the rescue!

I got to start off my day by schooling our IT guy on how women and minorities are disadvantaged in the workplace. His feeling was that any woman who goes on maternity leave is "gaming the system" unless she gets pregnant by accident. WTF? He also argued that one woman in our department probably makes more money than…

I think you're missing the real problem... SHE'S A CYLON!

@fuzzylizardkitten: I realized I haven't washed yet the bowl I mixed it in, and which the meat was never in, so I dipped my finger in. It's okay. I think it'll be good.

@Scoldy Lox: Thanks! I have those things! (This is exciting)

@midori19: Yes, one of my friends told me ginger ale is good for tenderizing, so I put some in. I tried to smell it, but my hands smell so strongly of garlic right now it was hard to tell.

Cooking Jezzies: advice please!