@NefariousNewt: I've got a bottle of Gruet I'm going to crack open tomorrow night. Viva the NM Champagne!

@Tart of Darkness: @SisterMaryMartha: Yep.

People with similar backgrounds who are already divorced: 36% People with similar backgrounds who will be divorced over the next five years: 25%

@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: Yes, I could be down with that sort of stress in my life.

@PilgrimSoul: God, I miss rotary phones. You could spin the dial with force and really drive home how you were Pissed. Off.

@Jessica Hussein Lovejoy: BRB, getting Rahm'ed: Same here. And I'd sing him a little song while I devoured him. But that's because I'm a character in a Tolkien novel, apparently. And yes, it would be "Deadly Cheesecake Man" to the tune of "Secret Agent Man."

I'm actually feeling bad for Richardson at this point. He built his whole damn career for SecState, and it's rumored around the local party he was promised the position if he'd switch his pledge of support from Hilary to Barry (and it's also rumored that she wouldn't commit to giving him any sort of position of power,…

I'm waving my hand over here. You want obsessive and socially awkward? Can't ever seem to figure out the social rules but desperate to have friends? Check, check, check.

@vivaSophia: He has a tendency to be, um, a hands-on leader. Sort of a Bill Clinton in a bolo, if you will.

Y'know, the more I hear about King Bill's wandering hands, the more I wonder why he didn't grope me when he had the chance, and that makes me a bad (and sad) feminist.

The husband punched me in his sleep a couple of times in the early days of sharing a bed. I always blamed it on a slightly paranoid disposition ("the ninjas are out to get me" mindset) and his elite martial arts training ("the ninjas can't get me if I get them first" mindset).

@howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches): (Because I am proud to be an American.)

And I will proudly STAND UP, bitches.

@Sophie is addicted to Now 'n Laters: That first year's a bitch, especially when the over/under is only 3 months.

@Jessi Ramsey: It's the Texas A&M mascot.* Short for "agricultural" (or the A in A&M).

Someone needs to explain the concept of allegory to Vicky Jackson.

I am of the demure (read, I'm both not hot and married) costume school of thought. Last year, I went as Lucy Van Pelt, complete with 5 cent psychiatric booth and football.

@hortense: We're the sum of our uterus production. And the more unaborted daughters we unabort means the more uteruses wandering around to give us more unaborted daughters. And the beat goes on.

@LadySoprano: My uberRepublican inlaws voted for Obama. My father-in-law predicated his vote on the rumor that Obama will name Bill Richardson to Secretary of State, thus pulling him out of the governorship here. Oh, that, and he was on the aircraft carrier McCain accidentally blew up in the Gulf of Tonkin. Whoops.

@DixieCaverns: We've got our Australian paperwork filled out and ready to go. We're just waiting to see if we need to drop it in the mail on November 5.