Little Women was the first book I ever read that actually bored me.

Not only am I not a morning person, but I have an extremely rickety internal clock. Left entirely to my own devices, I'd go to bed sometime between 11 PM and 3 AM, and wake up some time between 9 AM and 1 PM. The wake-up time would have no correlation whatsoever with the bedtime.

Anyone else agree that referring to moronic, sexually degrading public outbursts as "catcalls" is extremely insulting to cats?

Michigan pasties are awesome!

I had a friend from Chicago (!) who used to make Cincinnati chili at home, and I thought it was quite good in a weird sort of way. Some years later I finally ate some actual Skyline chili, and found it bland, gloppy, and generally unpleasant.

Oh, Zarquon ... I lived in Rochester for a few years, and could never understand how the same city that gave us Wegmans could also be responsible for the garbage plate.

Who the hell came up with a STEAMED CHEESEBURGER for Connecticut? I grew up there and still visit at least twice a year, and I've never seen anyone there attempt to steam a cheeseburger. Yikes!

What do they do for an encore? Eat shit for colorectal cancer?

Let's see, my mom ... Eighth of 10 children of working-class immigrant parents. Dropped out of 10th grade to help her parents care for a disabled sibling, but was so academically inclined that she taught me up to 4th grade arithmetic before I even started school. Only member of the family with any visual or artistic…

Maybe it's just because I'm one of those lefto moonbats myself, but here's what I don't understand: How can these Tea Party folks successfully present themselves as fiscal conservatives after bringing the country to the brink of default, AND costing the U.S. economy 25 billion dollars? Because whatever their followers…

I had one who was cruel and capricious in many ways, but I stopped taking her seriously the day she yelled at me because I mentioned taking tryptophan to help me sleep. (This was back before they stopped selling it due to toxic contaminants, of course.) She told me it would make everyone around me think I was a drug…

Last fall, I saw pink-ribbon-adorned pepper spray on sale in a Missouri supermarket, labeled with an exhortation to "Fight Breast Cancer!" Couldn't figure out whether they were claiming you could cure cancer by pepper-spraying the patient, or prevent cancer by pepper-spraying yourself. (Me, I think it would be best to…

Straighteners are a real crapshoot, with emphasis on the "crap". I'm one of those folks of the Caucasian persuasion who has fine-textured but frizzy and cowlicky hair. Tried to straighten it myself once, with a major-brand product that was NOT cheap, and my hair was breaking off like glass for the next two months.

I don't miss mine either. By the time we parted ways, I was happy to get rid of any body part that was susceptible to endometriosis!

Although I appreciate the celebrate-womanhood thing, I don't know why this is of any more interest than looking at a set of tonsils. (Then again, if my own cervix is still extant, it's in a jar of formalin three or four states north of where I live now.) To each his/her own, I guess ....

Everyone should read this essay: http://dagblog.com/business/war-w…

If she was stalked, harassed, or inappropriately touched — and it was caught on tape — the abuser should be fired, period. Doesn't matter whether his actions met some legal definition of rape that would be straightforward to prosecute. He abused a woman who patronized the business that employs him, and they have proof…

The first time I ever heard of Forever 21, I presumed just from its name that it was one of those places that sold elastic-waist doubleknit pants and shapeless jackets in ice-cream colors to the over-85 set.

That "foot-long, rock-hard vagina" is going to keep me laughing all day. Kudos!

When they say that double mastectomy "doesn't increase survival", they're almost certainly taking into account not only women with aggressive cancers, but women whose cancers weren't especially aggressive and who could also have been successfully treated via a more conservative approach.