@Otempora: That's pretty much how I accidentally avoided the "freshman fifteen" in college. I'd do things like grab a big bag of cheetos on my way down campus after class Friday, and that was pretty much my food for the weekend. Although, I wasn't doing it on purpose, I was doing it because I was depressed and…

@septembergrrl: I think it is relevant because getting a sex change in 1987 was, I assume, a fairly different thing than having it done in 1997 in terms of cost, availability, therapy requirements, social acceptability...

@resplendent.bitch: It all fits! Wonder if Samantha has a sister named Erica...

@AnitaDrink: I cried when she died. I never thought I would cry over a politician's death.

@AnitaDrink: I haven't looked at the breakdown for this election, but the Rio Grande Valley generally goes blue, as well. Not horribly surprising, considering the poverty levels there. And if you take the Valley as a whole, we are as big (and important, dammit) as the metros you named.

@graciousplum: I have a trimmer that I use on my armpits, because when that hair gets too long it feels weird to me. Yes, I have bizarre armpit hair issues.

@envirodesigner: [www.cookingforengineers.com] Bam. Also, introduce him to Alton Brown. AB is the Bill Nye of cooking.

I stopped shaving because it ohmygod burns and itches when my hair is growing back in. I want to claw my freaking armpits off. I am so much more comfortable since I stopped. My husband doesn't care. Actually, I think he's glad not to hear me complaining about it all the time.

@LuckyDice: Hell, it would have been okay in Texas, as long as she was with her parents: "When may a minor legally possess an alcoholic beverage?

@la.donna.pietra: You can have Tom Hardy, but I call dibs on apology gifting of Hugh Laurie.

@cailizma: This is why I was always on my writing students about why punctuation matters. Here, let's throw in a couple of dashes: However, his career came to an end when he "printed photographs of underage girls -using his state computer- and placed them in the desk of a female receptionist in his legislative…

Yay! Timely! I'm a deep South Texas girl facing down her first Minnesota winter. OMG.

I think Sally Field will be a great Aunt May. Isn't she a little

@vogueisover: Duh. Men are delicate flowers, to be plucked by any

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Well, one would assume she voted for herself. But you know what they say happens when you assume...

All I took from the Charlie Sheen thing is that he broke up with her voicemail.

@Youthier: I think if MTV was really sincerely sorry, they'd replace the scene with an apology from the offenders explaining what they did wrong and why they are sorry. Except I don't believe for one second that either the network or the dbags involved in the incident are actually sorry for any reason not involving…

My cynical side says that this class is actually what that article was all about. How many of us would have even known about it without this ordeal? Now they can spin it as being with a controversial author.

@JinxyMcDeath: I have a friend from Mexico who speaks English with no trace of Mexican accent. It's funny to hear him on the phone with his family. When he picks up the phone his Spanish sounds sort of lousy, but as he talks his American acent drops away and he's in full on accentless Spanish.

@Katie Did.: Can't spell Star Whackers without Hackers!