@femme-bot: Actually, I think it's more "keep law making out of religion", but whatev. If Palin was president we'd all be handmaids in a post-apocolyptic theocracy, unable to have this conversation, so at least there's a plus ;)

@asha: I said that...

@femme-bot: Right, but that basically guarantees that there won't be an "official" state religion (like the Church of England) and that government won't interfere in the right to practice your religion -not that the two have to necessarily be separate OR that religion is banned from interfering in politics. Don't get…

A minor correction: there's nothing about separation of church and state in the Constitution. It's something we govern our country by, yes, but it only became our policy after a Supreme Court justice quoted it from a letter Thomas Jefferson had once written.

One of my best friends is in the military and all the men who serve under him know that he's gay. They can't talk about it (for obvious reasons), but everyone knows and they don't care. He said that when they're being shot at or about to pass out from exhaustion, the last thing they worry about is that someone in…

@BAngieB: When he ran for Senate, it was the whole state voting and his opponent, now the senator, did an ad painting Ford as the dangerous black man after the white women. It was gross. I voted for him, but after his disastrous Bill Maher appearance a couple of years ago (he made no sense whatsoever and the entire…

@knightgee: I don't think she's Shakespeare or anything, but if the alternative is a factory product you sings whatever is put in front of her, with no creative input whatsoever, then I'll take her occasionally insipid lyrics. She's 20. In a few years, if she's still making inaccurate literary comparisons, then we'll…

It's not like she's not aware that she's not the greatest live singer. She is. But so what? She writes her own music, is a great role model for her fans, always gives her performances her all, and has a genuine niceness that just shines through. I like her.

Okay does David Foster just own Andrea Bocelli now?

@la_periodista: These episodes were filmed last summer, before she signed on to the show.

@DepravedGirl: No, because I think we're meant to draw real-life parallels between white colonialists and the societies with people of color which they decimated for profit.

@PaigeTurner: Because she's a history maker, the first transgender presidential appointee. Things that have never happened before tend to make the news. She's not only notable not only because of who she is, but what she represents: progress, showing the ignorant minds of the world that transgender people aren't crazy…

@beatrice2000: If you read the book you see it wasn't just the diabetes that was bothering her. She was trying to deal with the disease in a responsible way, but her parents kept dragging her from doctor to doctor in hopes of find a miracle cure. At one point in the book she even has an appointment with a faith healer…

@email.number28: Did you ever read a BSC book? The only celebrities they mentioned weren't even real (Cam Geary, U4ME), ergo they were barely mentioned at all. It's great for kids to think about important issues (and as much as Dawn was a pain in the ass about the environment, I learned a lot about it), but let them…

@Blueberry26: Yeah, it happened at a couple of houses I think. The reason it was such a huge deal was because they heard of a burglar or something who would call houses and rob the ones who didn't answer and not say anything if it sounded like there was a babysitter at home. You can't really do that with a cell phone.

Is changing the phantom phone calls to texts just speculation? Because the calls were hang-ups, nothing menacing (Trevor Sandbourne had a crush on Claudia, but was too shy to talk, so he just kept hanging up). Alan Gray might have called to hang up a few times just to fuck with Kristy, but still, how do you text a…

I almost sent this one in as a tip! I'm really excited for this. I lived on these books as a kid and have been working my way through buying all of them in the series (more than 200 books when you include all the spinoffs) in hopes of passing them down to my currently nonexistant daughter at some point. I'm torn about…

So...his opponent is surrounded by republicans then?

I LOVE A Smoky Mountain Christmas! And hey, the witch's name is Jezebel!

@BabyJane: And don't forget: A Wedding (to My Secret Sibling) Story and Little Deposit, Big Results every Monday at 8/7:00 central.