Last week I spent two "sick" days at home—sick to death of going to my office, I suppose. On the second I logged into my work computer and spent a bit more than five hours working. Solidly, productively working. In that time, I accomplished more than I would have in the 16-18 hours I would have spent at the office.…

I don't think much could top Kenneth Branagh's version, with the brilliant Emma Thompson as Beatrice, but I'll watch this. As far as whiteness goes, at least Ken cast Denzel Washington in all his regalness as the Duke. Then again, he also cast Keanu Reeves, so...

I really enjoyed the show, but it also made me so damn mad about the backlashes, the slides, the ongoing brutality of the fight to get anything done anywhere for women's equality, and the sad fact that 50% of the species still has such a hard time even seeing the problem, no matter how many times they're told or how…

Nice! I guess a man plagiarizes.

That whore!

And while we may call Christianity the weird cousin of them both, my experience with fundamentalist Christian thinking puts it right in line with the family. There's the charming "modesty movement" aimed at Christian girls who apparently are tormenting their fragile brothers in Christ by wearing anything that doesn't…

Likewise. For me, 29 through 35 are, so far, what I consider to be me at my absolute happiest, when I started to find the best of myself and act on it. Before that can pretty much suck it from my mid-40s perspective.

Well done, and dead on, especially the "follow through" portion of all of this, which is the part that most people conveniently forget. Including me.

Sooo, the history of 20th century media is...photos of pretty girls in their era's version of skimpy clothing. I kinda hope there are pictures of cats doing amusing things down there, as well.

My moron cat just came running to the sound of the printer in this video, so much does she obsess with the printer. What a furry little freak.

Good reminder, thanks. I am one of those people. I also can't stomach hot tea on an empty stomach without the same result. Bodies are weird.

Why don't they just call it, "Ow, My Balls!" and get it over with?

I couldn't agree more. These aren't stupid people, necessarily, but they've chosen to invest a tremendous amount of time and brain capital into something completely insane. Why would you do that? What do they get out of it? It's such a waste of effort just to create a false sense of safety and superiority.

Clearly the person making that comment has never been to any holiday or family gathering with my in-laws, where that kind of thinking would seem pretty tame compared to the rest of their Bible-based anti-science conspiracy talk.

There's no comment like a sassy-yet-correct comment. Love it!

Jesus. I bet all those devout, evangelical Christians would be so stunned by his socialist ways that they'd impeach him within a year.

I can't know for sure, because clearly I'm in the "gonna sag no matter what" camp, but if I had to guess, I'd say it would likely have been worse, possibly much worse, if the weight loss had been faster. You simply don't have the time to build up any muscle structure underneath, which definitely helps lift things up,…

I think that might be Mark Kanemura, who was on "So You Think You Can Dance" and is a terrific character dancer. And as smoking hot as the sun, so there's that, too.

I lost more than 100 pounds over the course of several years, working out all the while; I ended up with the sagging. I assume that a lot of it is genetic. I am very fair skinned and "thin skinned," for want of a better description. I started getting stretch marks at 13 from normal growth because my skin just wasn't…

Don't we already have that? Bodybuilding isn't a traditional sport, per se, but there are competitions that specifically call themselves drug-free and then there are the other competitions that don't say that, and in which the competitors look like mutants. The precedent already exists.