I will say this: at least his name will forever be associated with the word "asshole" by women on campus. Thanks for warning them, Reardon. Good luck getting a date, now!

Sigh. She cannot get out of that town soon enough. Godspeed, Constance. Godspeed.

I prefer this one:

@beatrice2000: Two great things came together on that song: L7 and Shirley. Coincidentally, I met a woman who was a drag racing contemporary of Shirley's this past weekend, Bunny Burkett. She's still racing every once in a while and training the next generation.

Wow. I can't help but translate in my head what $47K would otherwise purchase. I guess this one gets filed under, "If she can afford it, well, okaaaaay." But for me, that would represent getting myself out of debt and relative economic freedom. So, to reiterate: wow.

Open wheel racing still is one helluva lot more open to women racers than say, NASCAR. And more open and accepting still? Drag racing. NHRA and IHRA. Weird yet true.

@special_boots: I may be future you, Boots. I'm 46 years old and still do not regret for one second having decided against having children. At the same time, I'm thankful as all hell for those selfless people out there who have chosen the difficult task of raising the next generation and feel nothing but sympathy…

@Juuuuuules: I wonder if sending McMillen to an empty room with some chaperones was a little too obvious, where pointedly excluding teh geyz is concerned. So they had the bright idea that she shouldn't be singled out. But then they hit the brick wall of, "Well, who else can we exclude while not ruining any of the…

@AngriestGeek: Wow. That is just plain terrible. I'm so glad it worked out, eventually. I just have the normal, non-searing pain variety of them. Of that I now know I should be incredibly thankful (instead of just embarrassed if the boyfriend is down there, in the vicinity, worrying what he might accidentally…

@sweet cuppin' cakes needs coffee: Countdown until it shows up on eBay. Five, four, three...

The rape theme today is just plain making me nauseous, tearful and angry. I'm going to go home, hold my elderly kitty and pray for humanity to become...human.

"You read me because you don't know what to expect. "

@Kitty Conner: Exactly as you say. Good girls are only issued a vagina upon marriage. Check out a Barbie doll sometime. After all, she's single.

@bluebears: Well, if you're going to go to Iraq and drink the Rohypnol, obviously consent was implied...

@Rusty: I agree with LilSpitfire. If their reputation with regard to date rape is really that bad, it deserves investigation by the college and the sanctioning national body. In the interim, the victims of EI are still just that: unwilling victims. Saying that they have a known reputation does not give them the…

Wow. I cannot begin to count the thousands of reasons I might go back to a guy's place, after a drink or two, that don't lead to sex. Maybe he mentioned a cool new tune he thought I'd like to hear. Or maybe I'm up for some harmless making out. Or anything in between. Literally thousands of anythings in between. …

@RaeBeta: It exonerates women, too. It's an equal opportunity law. Man or woman, the party committing adultry with a married person can be sued by the spouse of that married person. So the male lover of a married woman can be sued, too. And men have been successfully sued in North Carolina under this law.

A couple I know from back in college ended up fighting it out under this North Carolina statute about a decade ago. She randomly had been in touch with her old high school sweetheart via email. One thing led to another, the husband found their emails and sued the old high school beaux, now a doctor, for over a…

Sal is such a wonderful character. Growing up in the south, I saw a lot of sublimating men go into the marriages they knew would make their families happy (even having children in some cases), only to come out to those families during a middle age crisis of sorts. Hard enough to do that now, so I can only imagine…

Part of me wishes they had string pulls and would say a few of the character's most memorable lines. Of course, I also wish the Roger doll threw up and had little heart attacks, but I guess I can settle for making Joan and Betty slap him as he makes unwanted advances.