Along those same lines, I wish black people would just be less black. Jews should have been less Jewish in late-30s Germany and everything would have been fine.

Usually ultrasounds will determine when conception took place and give you a due date from there.

It's 40 weeks but that starts from the date of your last menstrual cycle. Conception occurs when you're 2 weeks pregnant, by that standard. You're a month pregnant at your first missed period. It's 9 months from there.

Yes, people do get engaged without talking about marriage first. I worked with a woman who was considering moving 1000 miles away and breaking up with her boyfriend, so he took her away for the weekend and, in front of an entire restaurant of people, proposed. They had never talked about marriage. She accepted with…

My biggest goal in raising my daughters is to make them resilient, which I think comes from a healthy sense of self-worth. I absolutely think there's a way for high self-esteem to coexist with not being a snot-nosed brat.

Thank God your baby wasn't violated and best wishes for a quick, clear answer with no lasting effects.

It's nice he's willing to let his daughter be violated in order for HIM to learn a lesson. What an ass.

While I dislike most of the current trendy -aden names, Navaeh gets under my skin like no other. I cannot abide it. It's just the worst.

She's had three children, is "rail thin," and is bending over—they really want smooth skin? Are you kidding? Do they know that women aren't really plastic dolls?

Maybe I'm just old but my thoughts on Sara Leal run from "What are your parents thinking right now?" to "How do you expect to get a job?" Why on earth would you want your face plastered on magazines because you fucked someone? Good lord. I don't belong in this culture anymore, I don't think.

I bet she'd have gotten thrown off if she tried to nurse the kid to quiet him/her too.

I wonder if it occurred to the bus driver that the mother probably already thought to try to quiet the baby.

You think they have friends? If I knew people like this, I'd run screaming for the hills. It's swell they love each other but that's between them. I don't need or want to hear about it all that much, much less 100 times.

And, along those lines, people need to take sexual assault seriously. It's a violent crime that gets treated like an inconvenience. Especially when someone is considered highly likely to re-offend, we have to take seriously that their psychopathology makes them unfit to live free in society.

You know what would be a good read? Dear Coke Talk's response.

I'm totally with you. In fact, before my husband and I got married, I told him that it would never be okay with me if he cheated on me but, if he did and it was a one-time thing, never to be repeated, that it was his burden to carry, not mine, and he shouldn't tell me unless there was danger to my physical health.

Yep, me too. When it was cold out, we usually got to wear leggings under our skirts and, eventually, we got warm up suits we could wear instead. When I was a freshman, we had one week where we cheered games M-F. A whole week of wearing my uniform to school, every day. One of those days was class picture day.

Right. My husband and I met at a bar watching college football games. I love college football. That he loves college football was a plus to me, especially since our teams don't clash. I was fine with him loving pro football as it gave me Sunday for me time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but possessing child pornography is a crime, yes? So the person whose computer was found to have images of a man raping a toddler is in possession of child pornography, yes? So what else needs to be ascertained? It's illegal to have it. Someone has it. Charge the motherfucker.

"I'm not ready to give up on monogamy and a cultural statement that marriage still matters."