People may "still have a right to joke about it" but enlightened people still have a right to complain about people joking about it. All we're doing is complaining, I haven't read any comments urging that rights should be denied.

Will someone tell me what it is about Mary Louise Parker's dress that makes it 80s?

Wait a minute; "Christmastime Is Here" that off-tune, drag-ass depressfest could be worse.

I am not an expert in comparative religions so I can't agree or disagree about the focal point of all religious beliefs. I will say that the focal point of Christianity, with which I am most familiar, is not on what a believer can get God to give him or her in terms of earthly things. The first request in the Lord's…

Faith does not change the circumstances of a person's life, it changes a person's response to those circumstances.

Also, it sounds like replacing Thompson with a new pastor was a good thing.

It's sad that the ban was instated in the first place, but I do think the church deserves some credit for acknowledging it was wrong and reversing the ban.

I agree with you. The only reason I could come up with for using that term is that it is a case of "assaulting the opponent's sex organs" rather than "assault of a sexual nature".

I was a reserve once! But there were extenuating circumstances so my feelings weren't hurt. The wedding was in September of 2001 and the bride's sister was afraid she wouldn't be able to travel for the wedding. I happened to wear the same dress size as the sister so I was on standby.

bichon said that "Girls are still meaner than the boys..." and I was responding to that, I think it's a sexist remark. Certainly meanness takes different forms as you say. Back in Ye Olden Days when I was in junior high there was a girl on the bus who happily went around meting out physical violence on other girls and…

I don't believe that girls are meaner than boys, I've seen too much to go along with that. I'd say instead that girls talk about it more, so we know more about girls' meanness than boys.

The "small" mound of potatoes or rice should be the size of a tennis ball, if that helps.

I get what you're saying but I wonder if the boys aren't the way they are because they're allowed to be. Not at your pre-school of course, but at home. I do think people control girls' behavior more tightly than boys'. If you had a boy and had the same limits for him that girls live with maybe he'd be just as great as…

You mean "shit" like working at a retail store? It's as much an honest day's work as waiting tables.

I believe it. But that's because I believe that bloody hand prank has been pulled on pretty much every single newby that's turned up at the morgue. I expect they wash it off and store it in someone's locker and the next time a new batch of community service people show up, out comes the bloody hand again. Hilarity…

My vote goes to Iowa.

Did you base your first statement on the quotes in the post or do you have more extensive familiarity with Stephen Ira? I'm not arguing, but I don't understand your statement given the only information I have on the matter is based on that in the post. Surely you aren't suggesting that Stephen Ira is any whiter or…

Yes, I always think, "Really? It's just impossible for you to figure out?" I don't recall ever being taught how to wash clothes in a machine, I believe everything I need to know I learned from laundry detergent ads, (separate colors!), the inside of the lid of the washer, (when to use permanent press), and experience,…

Guessing here, but I use mesh bags and I think they keep the straps from winding around each other, the rest of the bra, and the rest of the laundry. So maybe that in turn keeps the bra and its various parts from getting stretched out and weird? One thing is certain for me, I spend less time trying to unspaghetti…

I am a City Person to the core and when I went to Palm Springs I left many cockroach corpses in my wake. When I packed to return home I looked things over very carefully before they went into my suitcase. And when I got home, despite it being February and my living in a bitterly cold climate, I unpacked outside,…