@Amanda Martin: I know! Crime does pay.

@RaisinGirl doesn't drink white whine: I'm so glad the second part of that story was in there. I was reading the first one and thinking "ewww...."

@all: Thanks guys. He truly is a fine speciman, and has always been such a good role model for manhood. I love him!

A few years ago, I wrote a column on abortion for a newspaper in Australia. It was a personal piece on my own two abortions, and how I was sick and tired of the dominant idea in culture that women had to apologise for their choices.

@vee: LOL! I love Alan Smithee's body of work.

@bookwench: My pleasure :)

@QuakerOates: I see it more like Niki S up thread. It seems like Lindsay has been on the edge for so long that this is actually a step in the right direction. I didn't read her comment as blaming the film or the director but as removing herself from a situation she now sees as harmful. Isn't that actually moving…

@bookwench: Have you read Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks? It's a very interesting history of the veil with lots of stuff in there about Mohammed and how the circumstances of his life affected his 'prophecies'.

@caranguejinho: LOL!

The best part about the Ryan Kwanten story is that he was parking a bicycle.

I'm prepared to accept that he wrote the letter with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

@Jamie Heck: Is your partner circumcised? Because if he is, he wouldn't know any different and may be all about the traditiooooon as well.

Wait, what? How do Democrats vote repeatedly?

@Lynx: Don't worry. Mohammed's first wife Khadija will walk them through the indignity of bankrolling a man only to have him turn around after you've died and claim that men are superior because they bring home the bacon.

This is brilliant. I can't believe it's taken until 2010 for a really comprehensive anti-rape strategy to focus on the perps not the victims.

@QuakerOates: Oh dear. Judgmental much?

Photos or it didn't happen.

"He's got the whole wo-orld! In his hands!"

Dr Berlyn Aussieahshowna?

@msmoneypenny misses MizJ: I don't know what this is, but it's scaring me.