Also a bit OT, but:

That was delightful!

@Sparkle.Motion: I was trying to put my finger on why I didn't like this Dirtbag, and you nailed it.

Heh, I don't think I was all that helpful, but you're welcome!

I find that anecdote deeply amusing, because Tommy Lee Jones has a house in my hometown and he is the star of several Rude Celebrity Stories around these parts.

@LizLemler: Oh, don't even remind me. Disney Doug episodes were a bummer and a half.

@turingtested: Wow, that is one awkward situation.

@lizlemonglasses: That made me laugh out LOUD.

Several people have mentioned letters@nytimes.com, but I also used the "email the reporter" feature that comes up when you click his name.

This may be the first time ever that I've thought literally every outfit in a g/b/u was bad or ugly.

@My cat hates Tom Cruise: Maybe she meant that there were troops sponsored by mosques in addition to ones sponsored by churches/not churches?

@zegota: Heh, we obviously had the same thought but different conclusions.

Girl, I think all of us fell a little bit in love with Mark Brendanaquitz. Don't worry about it.

@GregIsNotAnAlien: 1. Poor little Bernie Bernard. Being covered in piss is not the way to go.

@50 Foot Queenie: I did read the whole thing, but only while mumbling "It's Beatrix. Beatrix Beatrix Beatrix" to myself repeatedly.

...point five.

Haha, the multiple modifiers were intended to be a li'l bit facetious.

Well, I guess you can imagine the hypothetical actions any way you want. You're imagining the hypothetical boyfriend being a respectful guy and the couple already having an established sexual relationship, I'm not. In the analogy to the lecture, relatively new Hypothetical Boyfriend proposed oral sex, Hypothetical…

@WFROSE: You had...a diatribe? Well then.

@WFROSE: I know relating everything to rape is like the Jez version of Godwin's Law, but bear with me for a minute: