Well, I was young enough that I had NO idea that was a tradition, so it didn't bother me at all. He and I took a picture together, which I'm sure was much more awkward for him (a 40- or 50-year old single man holding a now-married woman's garter while standing next to a fourteen year old child) than it was for me (the…

I caught the bouquet when I was 13 or 14. The guy who caught the garter was the superintendent of the middle school I attended. Needless to say we did NOT do the creepy garter-goes-up-the-leg thing.

uhhhhh, WHAT?!?!

I don't understand. Why couldn't you use a picture of the college you wrote the article about?

Don't drink the water.

I just noticed that the capital letters in "Let Him Live" are not italicized, but the lower case letters are. I cannot un-see that, and it's driving me up the wall.

I'm 99.999% sure Judge James R. Spencer heard both cases and is responsible for both sentences.

ehhh, well, after her husband (who is actually a public official) only got two years I'd be kind of annoyed if the judge decided to be particularly dickish to her after being lenient with the guy who threw is own wife under the bus.

yeah, I skimmed the article... oops!

Honestly, I have no idea. The wapo link says she is sentenced to 366 days in PRISON will get the [prison] sentenced reduced, but jail and prison are often (and unfortunately) used interchangeably, so who knows. Although I don't think it matters in this case, since as far as I'm aware, Maureen MacDonnell was never in…

I think it's an interesting and relevant detail that she was actually sentenced to 366 days, not 365 days. According to the Washington post, inmates sentenced to more than one year can have their sentences reduced by 54 days/year of their sentence for good behavior. So instead of sentencing her to a year, the judge…

So she laments that America is behind on math and science, but refuses to allow actual scientific theory to be taught over religious dogma? And she wonders why we are behind on STEM subjects... The level of logical disconnect in her thinking is frankly astounding.

Yeah, I feel bad for her too. Although honestly I feel worse for Jane Seymour who didn't even have a guy she was in love with. She was pawn to her family, who were the rivals of the Boleyn family, and her brothers used Anne Boleyn's downfall to shove Jane into Anne's place. And then Jane died in childbirth (or right…

Not to mention she was the wife who lived longest. Catherine Parr might have been queen when her husband died, but she quickly found herself pawned off into another marriage and then died in childbirth while her husband was off flirting with Elizabeth. Anne of Cleves out lived all the other wives. She's obviously the…

Um, yeah, but the novelist? Anne Perry. The murder mystery writer. She was accused of murder, served five years, changed her name, and then started writing murder mysteries. Coincidence? I think not.

Not monogrammed thermoses?

My absolute favorite book. And that is one of the best parts. Especially because Jane Austen is solving the problem through the same medium in which she points out the problem.

Wow, now I'm really, REALLY glad they rejected my law school application yesterday.

That right there is the reason I hate the Nick Jonas song "Jealous." The message is, "It is your fault that I am jealous, because you are the one who is so hot that all the other guys want you. My emotions are your fault. And its your fault that strangers want you. It's all on you."

Ooo, my brother went to a Catholic college. My crazy, anti-papist evangelical extended family thought that meant he was going to become a priest. Apparently there was a Scandal-with-a-Capital-S when they found out he had a girlfriend.