“You wear the dress; the dress is not allowed to wear you.” - This is the essential lesson of all fashion, not just wedding gowns.

“The welfare of people in the hands of self righteous asshats.” — You mean, Congress?

Tangential observation on the ketchup cup story: Nothing is more exasperating to an engineer than coming up with a simple, logical solution to a problem, only to be told, “Sorry, our poorly-designed and/or -implemented system won’t allow that.”

I Am Not A Lawyer, but: The standard is not “did he commit a crime in both countries.” The standard is “is this act considered illegal in both countries.”

I’m wondering if it will be to the magazine’s benefit. You know, you try to keep something away from kids, that makes them all the more interested in getting their hands on it. Oooh, Cosmo is so racy.

Speaking of mistakes, can someone ask Nicki why she signed on for “Hey Mama”? Or am I the only person who actually pays attention to the lyrics?

Library.

“a leopard who wants her jewels back” — This is a whole new story by itself.

My “what would you do if you won $300 million in Powerball” fantasy is a foundation to help the working poor. And I don’t know exactly how it would work, since I haven’t been working in the field, but I figured things like providing security deposits for housing and helping people get more reliable cars for the money…

Which Prince Charming? Aren’t there about thirty of them?

As far as insult goes, consider the source:

“If the stated goal of etiquette is to make things as easy and comfortable for your guests” — That’s not the stated goal of etiquette. That’s also not the stated goal of manners. I could explain, but I think anyone getting into these areas needs to invest time in reading Miss Manners. (She’s one of my favorite…

I know I’m putting too much thought into this but: How does he expect to be notified that his demands have been met, given that he doesn’t realize that his demands have been met?

At some point, you should stop calling it guacamole and start calling it “avocado mash” or whatever.

If spanking were necessary to instill discipline, the military would use it during basic training. (Okay, there’s probably some spanking, but not officially.)

My version has Dermot Mulroney falling for Rupert Everett (because who wouldn’t?), and when they run off to get married at the end, Julia and Cameron give each other a considering look.

Labels and stereotypes and other generalities can be a useful shorthand — human behavior is so complex, it’s often helpful to start from a simplified position. But that’s just a start, not the end product. You have to be able to move past the general label to the specific person.

Slavery wasn’t viable, but it was still their way of life and they wanted to hold on to it. More specifically, they needed to expand into the newly organized territories west of the Mississippi. Hence the battle over state’s rights, but really the battle to expand slavery. It’s not like they were just going to shrug…

I seriously think about segregating middle school into male and female classes, just to avoid so much crap that happens during the teen transition years. Hopefully that would lay a solid enough foundation to allow reintegration during high school.

“A color-blind, modern Pan”? More like a colorless, modern Pan.