Yep. He tries not to take offense, but...imagine you're about to have sex with a guy for the first time. He's the one who's had a silent crush on you for forever, and all of a sudden he gets a phone call (which he answers while on top of you, half naked), apologizes for being rude and taking the phone call, then does…

Parents: "What's on your Christmas list this year?"

$550 million is the equivalent of the One Ring for me. I would buy the Democratic Party and go to war with the Koch Brothers. I would have nothing but good intentions...at first.

I guess where we come down is a difference in how we view something like "abortion insurance." From your previous comments, it seemed to me like your take is that this is a luxury some women should have to pay because they want to be able to abort with impunity - that they're not taking other precautions, so they…

The Hyde amendment already ensures that tax dollars don't go towards funding abortions. Please take the time to read up on it, as it should answer some of your concerns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amen…

May I direct you to He's Just Not That Into You? The phrase "You're the exception, not the rule!" still makes me vomit a little in my soul.

No, rants are good. :) Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something else going on there that had gone completely over my head. Thanks for clarifying!

Can I ask you a question about one thing? I agree with your comment, but was confused by, "people outside of Native Americans who are offended by the redskin term…why do you care?" I'm white as sin, so when I hear that dialogue start up, I try to shut up & listen to how native groups feel about the term; the…

I'm a pale-skinned lady with not-perfectly-white teeth. The very idea of being decked head-to-toe in white is abhorrent to me. It's going to be gold. And yeah, I'd like to be jaw-dropping for once in my life and if that requires sequins, then so be it.

We liberals have been wondering the same thing for years!

I felt less "Oooh pretty!" and more "That woman is courageous as fuck." Maybe that's why I didn't feel uncomfortable; I was sympathizing with her, not evaluating her looks. But yeah, I'm with you—you can see the exact moment where she girds herself before holding her head up and entering the gauntlet. It's chilling.

You are a lucky duck if you've avoided the shitstorm of complaints against the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare). Let me see how succinctly I can sum it up:

Yep. To me it read, "You don't actually have to change your position on the issues, you just have to cover it with a thin veneer of smarm."

Step 2. Buy a Breast Cancer lapel ribbon and wear it all the time, even while jogging. You don't even have to mention it. Women like details and clothing and pink. They'll notice.

I immediately thought of the shirtless Old Spice guy offering me "tickets to that thing I like…look again, those tickets are now diamonds." That ad was hilarious because it went so over-the-top in portraying What Women Want. My thought process there: Old Spice is hilarious. Guys who purchase Old Spice will also have…

Maybe the other boy is her patronus and he's trying to pull her away.

No problem at all. Best of luck to you!

It sounds like you're doing all the right things - going at your own pace, finding one good person to confide in, being realistic in your expectations. Once you admit to everyone that it's really happening, you have to admit it to yourself too, and that's a rough hurdle, but you will move beyond it. Like you said,…

According to them, the solution is for us ("hot ladieezzz") to stop having unrealistic expectations about men. If we just understood that Nice Guys are better than Bad Boys, we'd see all of their inner charms and overlook the unimportant "small" details you speak of (like whether we're attracted to them and whether we…

"Putting his foot right in the muckiest of sexist mires and then straight into his mouth" is worth a million stars, but alas, I can only give you one. Bravo.