Taboo about sex = just barely enough to prevent public intercourse. No taboo has ever managed to override the possibility of getting some nookie, even when said nookie will literally kill you.

It's how carefully styled it looks that kills it. That does not look like smartassed nerdboy hair, that looks like punk rocker wannabe hair.

Reminds me a lot of a turtle I once saw in Georgia trailing a massive string of algae after it. Except, turtles and algae probably don't do so well in icy waters like this. But something that normally swims in these waters dragging something that it's been caught on, perhaps?

It ends with him getting a haircut, hopefully. Ugh.

Excellent point there. :)

No joke...

Exactly; the better a society treats women, the healthier it seems to be in a lot of ways.

In a culture which treats women as property and gives their voice only half the weight of a male voice in the legal system, this sort of organization is a very smart move. It gives aggressive, physical women a place within the system and provides them with a goal to aim towards. If you try and completely suppress a…

I don't know if I had the sense that the adults in my life wouldn't approve of the books I was reading if they knew I was reading them, but for sure as an adult I would not let a child of my age read some of what I read. As an adult it seems like the trouble with Anthony wasn't his sexism, it was his pedophilia...

I was comms with the 24th ID when we swapped over to 3rd ID down at Ft. Stewart. Gotta love those trails you tankers use... I used to pick up stuff off the trails that tankers had tied off to the side of a tank and then lost. :)

Very wise indeed!

Husband used a measuring tape - 18 inches and that was in the *sheltered* part...

I check the inactive ingredients every time - can't afford to mess that one up.

What a great book! My husband introduced me to it when we were dating.

Oh, he did that to a *lot* of kids....

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...That would be a combination of Anne McCaffrey's Dragon series, Isaac Asimov's Robots, Andrew Vachss' Burke hardcore revenge fantasies, Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan books, and Georgette Heyer's romances.

Don't forget it's in some medications too.

snow day! Yay!

Jeez, just googled that sort of hernia and it sucks. But how come they can't fix it? Most of the friends who've had hernias have had mesh put in place to prevent stuff from going where it shouldn't.