@disco2000: as a person who grew up (and escaped from) behind the Orange Curtain: that is awesome to hear! I feel like OC voting no on 8 is sorta like West Virginia voting for Obama.

And yet the LAPD seems to have enough funding for dozens of cops to brutally attack protesters at the May Day 2007 rallies. It seems peaceful protesters are more of a threat than, you know, rapists.

@Sarah Vivelafat McCain Palin: I think it has a lot to do with lack of access to prenatal healthcare, and economic issues that also affect maternal health (there are proven racial and ethnic disparities that contribute to the high mortality rate). In a lot of ways America is like the third world when it comes to the…

@girlreporter: That woman's line is now officially my new rap with undecided Catholic voters.

@Jessi Ramsey: Awesome. I was sitting at my computer thinking "2/3? 3/5?" and was too lazy to google it, so thank you for providing the answer!

I agree that he's a sexist (plus a racist, and really, just a general bigot). But inevitably somebody will say "But he's not a misogynist!" and make excuses based on his age, or maybe he just has a bad sense of humor. It's his voting record and record on women's issues that we should be emphasizing more than…

I was on the patch for years in college, and loved it, until the truth came out about how high the hormone levels are. I was pissed too, because I have a condition that makes me more at risk for strokes, but w/o BC I am out of commission for a week every month, so I was only supposed to be on low-dose BC (which…

@sarah.not.palin.is.a.mama.for.obama: My ex was so Aryan-looking, it was disturbing: incredibly tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed, pale skin, Anglo-Saxon last name. But he was only half-Jew, on the side that doesn't count (according to the Orthodox Jews at school who spurned him when he tried to find out more about being…

Do not unexpectedly turn our first date into a double-date with your asshole conservative racist roommate and his subservient girlfriend. Especially if said roommate makes a dozen comments through the night about why I should date "only our own kind."

I love how our government is willing to nationalize banks and investment firms, but not healthcare. Because at the end of the day, I'd rather have access to brokerage firms than medical care.

@PetiteGal: I'm Asian and me and all of my siblings were raised by nannies. News Flash: minorities have money too! Although I used to do child therapy and whenever I was with one of my white clients, people assumed I was their nanny.

I swear I heard that man say "Vietmanese" instead of "Vietnamese."

@briardahl: right on.

@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: I literally LOL'ed at your pre-existing conditions comment, and then had to forward it to the people I know who were arrested at the event at Disney.

I once worked for a huge hotel corporation, and there were some Germans who were there on a work-study program. The managers were giving us the healthcare talk and basically said, "It's too expensive for most of you" (we were all low-paid service workers) "so just do your yoga every day, ha ha!" (ASSHOLE.) And one…

@mmmkay: I read somewhere that pale skin may be considered attractive (even disregarding Western norms) because dark skin hides imperfections. Paler skin supposedly allowed a "clearer picture" of immune health and history because you can see scars, discolorations, etc.

@lumenatrix: Only if you come to flip-flops late in the game. Cross-cultural studies of flip-flop wearers reveal very different stride patterns.

Moe, if you can figure out how to move to Scandinavia, please share the secrets. I was looking into it and it's apparently damn near impossible unless you're married to a Scandinavian. Which I think my boyfriend would have a problem with.

"You have to learn how to locate and then stimulate that magical spot deep within the hippocampus..."

@Lazy Line Painter Jane: OMG, I think we may have the same friend!