You don’t have to be petite. It’s a particular body type—relatively broad shoulders and hips and then a long-enough torso so that the waist comes in. You do have to be thin—but I was 5’8” with a 23-inch waist as a teenager. If anything, Kim K. is too petite to have a naturally tiny waist—not enough room between the…

Seriously, are you going to do that? You don’t have some grass to kill instead? We have to cut 25 percent, but the dishwasher just doesn’t use that much. Half of residential usage goes to lawns—so it’s all about killing the grass—something my gardening-fanatic spouse is way too reluctant to do.

This probably won’t be a popular view here, but I don’t think he intended to rape his wife and I’m glad this old guy’s not going to prison for this. He probably deluded himself into thinking she was herself long enough that they could be husband and wife again.

Yep. It’s only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That’s how the free market works.

Yep. Also, I can think of one kid with issues who hit every single child in my kid’s class one year. (He shoved mine onto the cement when she was walking by.) I felt sorry for the kid, *but* not to the point of compromising her physical safety. No birthday invite involved, but would I have forced her to go to that…

Interesting. I’m sure the mom gets overwhelmed at times, but ideally the school and parent community would be more pro-active about something like this. Kids can be kind when they understand why another child acts strangely—maybe not be good buddies, but do things like attend a birthday party and not tease. Then you…

I do think there’s something to that and it’s not just now—you look through history and various conditions have moments, more or less. I mean, no one’s neurasthenic now, but a lot of Victorians were. In the ‘80s there was an explosion of multiple personalities. The 90s saw fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We…

There's a reason tights and leggings become more popular when short skirts are in fashion.

Oh, but they did. Miniskirts were so normal after a certain point that, unless they were "microminis" that was what you wore. Pants came as kind of a pushback against having to wear a short skirt, which a lot of women didn't want to do.

No, you couldn't. A lot of workplaces (and schools) didn't allow women to wear pants.

Well, a lot of us parents just hide the eggs in the yard, so there’s a self-selection thing going on here. If I lived in a shoebox, I think I’d hide the eggs in there before dealing with a park mob.

Nice tradition. In my family, there were baskets hidden at night (the older I got, the more useful the baskets became—I still have a former Easter basket waste-basket) and then we did the Easter hunt in the morning. Since we were massively into decorating eggs, there’d be about 50 HB eggs, which took a while to use…

Yeah, I was wondering about this. If you don’t want to dye eggs (which is, personally, my favorite part of Easter, but whatever), buy a bag of plastic ones, put some candy or something healthier in them and hide a dozen. Kid has a guaranteed great time. Collaborate with one or two families for my excitement. add a few…

She has serious legal bills, so writing a book makes sense. And weird doesn't make you guilty. That sort of thinking is for mystery novels.

Well, the platinum looked pretty fried, so I think it was real and looked awful. Back to black was probably the way to save her hair.

Oh, but having rescued a bad script makes her hot in Hollywood in a way she wouldn't have been with a good script. She delivered the goods when the thing looked like a clusterfuck of awfulness. She's now bankable.

Yes, but only if we get to watch The-making-of. I'd love to see E.L. James try to go up against Breillat.

Eh, do you want, but I'll just point out that it's not about liking children, it's about liking your child who will be an individual and won't even stay a child all that long. The not-liking children thing just doesn't mean that much—my kid's friends tend to irritate me, but I adore her. It helps that we're a fair…

Thing is, "Climb Every Mountain" is great if it's a live performance. It was written for an operatic mezzo, so you're nodding away through Maria's perkiness and the chirping children and then you get this big, grand voice powering its way through "Climb Every Mountain"—and, wham, you wake right up.

But is she? I've been looking up various financials of vegan food companies and I see no signs that VBites is the world's largest vegan company. Not even sure how you'd qualify something like that—I mean there are gigantic agricultural concerns whose products are vegan, but don't call themselves vegan food companies.