@SomeAuthorGirl: I somehow doubt that it would adversely affect their lives. SEC: porn during work hours while economy collapsed. Minerals Management Service (regulates oil): literally and figuratively in bed with oil executives, also doing coke with them. President Bush: enough said. McCain: well-known racist and…

@QuakerOates: 100% agreed. It's a huge red herring with any discussion of prisoner rights.

I occasionally do graphic design and think this is actually really good and eye-catching. The copy draws you in (What am I supposed to be noticing?) and you search around for a while, so you stay with the ad, which is really the goal of creating a print ad. I think people have a tendency to flip past more…

@lhostetler6: I was just about to mention Andre Norton. I read somewhere that a few people really went after her when they found out she was a woman - felt like she'd somehow "fooled" them into reading (and liking) her books by changing her name.

@NoaB: My boyfriend has a name that's "male" in Europe but gender-confusing to most Americans. Although I can't speak much to the gender thing, I think that like accents, it's a different thing to have a European-sounding non-English name versus a Latino one or an Asian one. Boyf told me a story about how in…

@bookling: What's sad is that he probably does, at least occasionally. There are some women who are really into this fucked-up misogynistic version of alpha maleness.

@through the rye: And even if they weren't intrusive or necessary, there's doubt that these new techniques actually aid in detecting weapons or explosives.

@marathonjunkie: I recently saw an old college friend who had a new baby. I asked her how everything was going, whether she was getting any sleep, and she said (very cheerfully), "I'm going to tell you what I wish people had told me but nobody ever did. If you ever have a kid, you will feel overwhelmed, and one day,…

When I was a kid, my mom constantly did things to make me miserable and wasn't the best parent. But I'll always be glad that she never made me feel self-conscious about my weight or body, or feel like my looks were something to be concerned about (and I was not at all a good-looking child, so it's not like she didn't…

@Miss Suka: My impression from the last jezebel post on this was that people weren't judging the relationship, they were judging the incredibly tactless and cruel way that they were trumpeting it to the skies in the NYTimes. (and from the way I understand it, the couple usually has to pitch themselves to the NYT to be…

@j-co: The way I understand it, I think generally a couple has to approach the NYTimes to get written up in that column. And at least in other papers, I think the article is written with quite a bit of input from the couple being profiled.

@ak1: That's the thing I found most notable as well (other than, you know, the complete self-centeredness of the announcement.)

@It's.Not.Opposite.Day: I think that some people feel that if they want to be with another person, they don't really want to be with the person they're with.

@tomsomething: I am actually choking to stop LOLing at tomorrow's headline, and people are looking at me funny.

@phoenix6666: Too many mouths to feed; donations and grants drying up; rent increases in some parts of the country; and at least recently the cost of some consumables have gone up. Many non-profits and charities that provide vital services (not provided by our government, ahem) are in a bind right now because of all…

@Porcelina: Exactly. "Hey, I put poison in your dinner. But at least you got to eat, right?"

@Fed Up (Lana Leigh): So I should be happy that those benefits were held hostage by the intractable Republicans in order to guarantee passage of extension of the tax cuts?

Love the anonymous hero, but it still makes me sad and angry that while people are literally (not figuratively!) going hungry, the wealthy elite are about to get a huge tax cut - so that they can buy better caviar for their yachts, I'm assuming.

@littleada: we're POST-RACIAL! We elected a black man as president! It proves that racism doesn't exist! There's no such thing as racist jokes in a post-racial society! Which reminds me, did you hear the one about the Jewish banker who walked into the Chinese laundromat...

@Gnatalby: So true about "color blindness" being a trap.