Agreed. Register to vote, then get yourself down to the polling place for the midterms on Nov. 4. It does not matter if we get a progressive president in 2016 if he/she has a Congress in conservative hands.

I virtually high five you, my fellow spinster!

"She calls unmarried 35-year-olds 'spinsters-in-training'".

This info graphic needs to be made into a poster. I would so love to hang it on the wall next to my sewing machine.

Of course he did! Read the full story. It's actually very cute how he saw the parrot in the crowd and asked if he could have a closer look. The bird climbed on his hand and addressed him as "Papa"—what the bird calls its owner ("Dad") and what Italians call the Pope (Il Papa). Wonderful picture and story.

"She was also my field hockey team mom during my senior year of high school..."

I can just hear what my mom's reaction to this would have been had the 19-year-old me done something like this: "If you are enough of an adult to choose to drink prescription cough syrup with Jolly Ranchers dissolved in it then drive an Italian sports car, you are enough of an adult to deal with the consequences."

I think I dated your ex's brother or similarly minded roomie.

"Raising up Jewish girls is like my favorite thing. The idea that religion is misogynist bothers me."

I have so many stories of this crap on Metra (the train lines that serve Chicago's suburbs) it is not even funny.

I'm on the UK schedule, too. My roomie already tortured me into giving up some plot details.

I'm just glad I'm not the only food preserver hoping for that trend to end. It has jacked up the prices of both new and resale jars around here. Also, stores stock just jars, not lids and rings.

I think we are less than 20 years away from not needing human models at all. Instead, the models will be from-scratch digital creations. The clothing/jewelry/makeup the photo is supposed to sell will be cut and pasted in.

She'll always be Lisa Swenson to me!

Finally...tramp stamps I can endorse!

Adorable, but not impressive. I have a conure who barks. When I was sick with fever over the weekend, he kept calling for me (even though I was in clear sight on the sofa) to make sure I was OK.

Coming in fall 2016 from Disney/Pixar "Ippo: A Zonkey's Tail".

Absolutely, thundercatsarego. I am a middle child myself and have been Team Edith since the beginning. She has grown so much as a character, and if she does not get her man in the end, I will throw things in a most unladylike manner.

I have been on Team Edith (middle children of the world unite!) for a while, and I want to scream. Jullian Fellows had better do right by her.

It is one hell of a mic drop. No argument there.