Public school education, and I can only speak briefly about my experience because the classes so traumatized me that my mother refused to let me take any others. This was the "information" imparted to 11-12 year old girls:

There's an airline that still does free checked bags?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Mental note made!

Airlines have a hell of a time filling all the seats these days anyway. It's been at least two years since I've been on a completely full plane, so I can't believe they'd really lose that much money if they took out even just one or two rows.

Pffft. Whatever happens, smaller passengers are not going to pay less. No airline is going to go for letting anyone pay less. They'll just raise the other prices up.

I don't like it when the male detectives do it either. I roll my eyes at how easily they fall into the clutches of a stylish murderess. And you call yourself a PI. TSK. TSK. It's less about the rules of the job and more about, "Damn, don't be so duuumb."

I noticed! I started watching the show after this was posted, it's really quite fun. The green screening is pretty bad but those costumes are gorgeous. Gold star for the detective with a good head on her shoulders.

When I was 12 I was against all my book heroines having sex because ew, relationships get in the way of the good stuff, like having adventures. I liked the casual sex better because the serious relationships meant more time spent in their homes talking about feelings and maybe getting married and uhg, there are…

The one thing I can agree with is she probably shouldn't be sleeping with possible perps. Ok, the guy maybe stole a precious jewel and you're having a Tomas Crown affair with him, fair game. But gurl, I advise maybe wait on the ho-down with the murder suspect lest he go all Bateman.

They do it for other diseases all the time. They do it, for example, for measles outbreaks. They pick their battles for serious diseases and outbreaks. No one notifies for athlete's foot because it's a non-lethal infection with disease vectors that you can't easily trace back to a single source.

That's the kind of relationship I can't stand. One of the reasons I was so attracted to my current boyfriend is he fights back. When we argue, which does happen, he doesn't clam up "to keep the peace." We may have arguments about silly things (art aesthetic in videos games was the last one), but we actually…

I've had extreme bad luck with birth control. This does not assuage my fears. Can't I just find a doctor to take out everything north of the cervix and south of the ovaries? Donate it to science, tan it and make a hat, I don't care, just get rid of it.

I've only got 4 but they're all regulars. My favorite is the Buxom Lash with the crazy extend-o comb, the others are all YSL in different colors. Most mascaras end up ripping my lashes out when they dry so I throw on the Buxom first and then doll up the tips with the YSL aqua or eggplant.

I had to stop watching the adult show because the constant bickering and Joe throwing away entire plates of food because "this is insulting, I won't taste this, I wouldn't feed it to a dog" were getting really grating. They didn't even show you what half the people made! I want to watch them cook and it felt like…

Amanda Cohen is one of the few chefs (and few restaurants) that I hear of by name consistently. Enough that I've remembered her and I don't live anywhere near NYC. I follow a few chef-blogs and she's always getting mentioned whenever people talk about delicious and not-at-all-boring vegetarian food. I'm trying to…

That's the third amendment, not the second.

These people are everywhere. A friend's assistant believes the Constitution of the United States has a section that says the people are allowed to overthrow the US government. Thank you Missouri public education.

"I'm a good person at heart" is just another version of "I'm not a racist, but..."

From Radar:

Oprah promoted The Secret, many dubious if not outright quacks and too many other things to count. OF COURSE Jenny McCarthy isn't on her shit list.

Yep! All Dogs go to Heaven, Secret of NIMH, Land Before Time, An American Tail... Land Before Time was I think his second highest grossing film and still made only half as much as Anatasia. I guess when no one wants to see your tragic dinosaur epics, mouse pogroms and canine treatises on the nature of free-will and…