God, I know. I root so hard for that woman.

Oh, Patti Stanger, you couldn't be more wrong. Mr. Aspatria couldn't care less about cars except for the fact that they enable us to travel. He only wants me to share his love of skyscraper photos, collecting counties on our travels, and the O.C. (television show, not necessarily location).

YESSSSS. I bow before your guru-level knowledge of Ron Swanson.

I love forwarding sending corrections on reply alls like that. I've done it to every member of my family who sent me (in your fantastic words) such xenophobic horse shit, and now they have either stopped forwarding them or are leaving me off the list. Either way, I don't have to deal with it anymore.

I have so many questions here. How is she defining profanity? What is her corpus - is she limiting it to, say Gossip Girl and the like, or does it include representatives of the current post-apocalyptic trend? Is she examining the context in which the words are used (not just who says it- looking at what the profanity…

I believe you! I never understood his appeal until 21 Jump Street which is when I realized that dude has a sense of humor about his life, work, himself, etc. I still don't find him hot, but I respect him and appreciate his personality and seeming lack of douchiness. And I never thought I'd say that about a guy who was…

I feel like I say that about every episode, but I really, really mean it this time :D

No spoilers here, but OH MY GOD that first episode tonight is stellar. West Coasters & delay-watchers, I can't wait till y'all watch it so we can discuss its sheer awesomeness.

Because, thankfully, not all white men - nor all men in general - are like this. I suspect (and hope, and if I prayed, would pray) that these MRA idiots, especially this particular brand of idiot, are in the minority.

For whatever reason, I've stuck it out - I should be done this summer. I'm questioning the wisdom of my choices, though, and I'll admit I envy you for being brave and strong enough to get out. I enjoy teaching and research - hell, even a lot of the service - but some of the institutional madness that accompanies all…

So cosigned. I started my doctoral program when I was 27....and I wish I'd waited. I spend a hell of a lot of time telling people NOT to do a doctoral program. Then I send them that video meme (veme?) about the humanities student who wants to go to grad school: [www.youtube.com]. And then I tell them about the 5,000…

Holy crap, Batman - how did I not remember that? Thanks for the reminder....clearly, I need to go back and watch the excellent first season again.

It is almost a shame that House is over, because this would make one hell of an episode. Of course, they very well could have done an episode based on this without me knowing - I stopped watching the show when Kal Penn left. (I'm not sure if this was really the cause of me not watching the show, but it was definitely…

I have to say, the caffeine pill one is my favorite VSE of all time. I've even been known to re-enact that one for my poor students (I teach college-level writing classes) when we're talking about how to communicate difficult messages to public audiences. Thankfully, the students are still old enough to have watched…

Thank you! This has been irritating me so much for the past few days :(

Well, you know, once we women get the tenth punch on the abortion card, we get a free drink with lunch! We're just being loyal customers, and that's important in this economy.

You also can't tell by looking at someone how intelligent or empathetic they are. Otherwise, this person would never have been hired as a doctor or a representative. Sigh.

I think that's an EXCELLENT idea. He was delightful, and he was clearly interested in her - a total 180 from her estranged husband.

I'm with you on that one! I tried reading that series because everyone kept saying how wonderful it was, and then I hated myself. Oh, how I hated myself.

Hm. Perhaps those books could be introduced as a "next step" when the kids really are in the YA group. I would argue that some of the later HP books are almost as dark (if not equally so) as the Hunger Games series.