Well he took the office of Senator and was sworn in by his son Beau’s hospital bed following a car crash that killed his wife.....so I think he could handle it.

Saaaame! But I want him to be VP forever because his blue steel gaze behind POTUS makes me happy. I mean how amazing would it be if he got to debate Marco Rubio (because a semi-moderate will win the Republican nomination, and probs try to compensate by attaching a cuckoo banana pants Republican to “bridge the party”)?…

We used the rent the same beach house every year in Brigantine, NJ, and there were Mary Stewarts in the bookshelf. They also had Iris Murdoch’s “A Fairly Honourable Defeat” and some other amazing books I never would have read otherwise.

My parents bought a “summer house” in 1969. The previous owner left the bookshelves filled with these and other Gothics. They never got thrown out and by the time I was twelve I’d race through the door on the first summer weekend, grab a handful and disappear. I never took one home at the end of the summer. They…

OMG, I lived there for 26 years and I have never-fucking-seen-this-before.

Hey, at least it isn’t overrun with orcs, like New Zealand.

For the most part though Australia is pretty darn safe. The wild animals that are dangerous are generally very hard to find unless you’re actively searching/hunting them and the other ones are for the most part harmless and friendly as long as you have common sense and keep in mind that these are un-domesticated…

This is insanely fantastic.

I LOVED Barbies, but when I was at that age, we didn't have a whole lot of money, and I was lucky to get a new pair of shoes for school at Payless. But I had lots of Barbie hand-me-downs from my older sister: dolls, a pink corvette, a mansion with elevator, tons of clothes - because when she was that age, my family…

This is an amazing story. Your mom is quite a lady. I hope your father recovered. Thank you for sharing this. It made me tear up.

My birthday is a few days before Christmas, and Barbie came out the year I was four. My father was sick that year and in and out of the hospital, and my mom was working nights in a restaurant to support us.

I didn't get new Barbies often so when I did I certainly wasn't wasting it on a dumb Ken doll. I had an Aladdin doll but beyond that I just chopped the hair off dolls that had fallen out of favor if I needed more men.

Anklet socks. The kind with the frilly lace tops were the best for making sweet little formal dresses for Barbie. And tube socks worked well for holding the padding in place when you were making Kens out of spare Barbies. (There never were enough Ken dolls and the visiting cousin always got the Ken doll. My sister…

No doubt many fans would support James in defending her vision, but Hollywood insiders say films are different from books and setting the right tone in the ending could be the key to luring audiences back for two sequels. "You can't just put the book on the screen," says one insider.

What gets me about this whole 50 fiasco is that there are wonderful fanfictions out there that you could change the names of the characters and make into decent books/movies. Even in the silly world of twilight fanfiction, I once read a cute story that was basically a new version of "The Cutting Edge." It would be an…

OMG You found the black box didn't you?