Yep. I'm a US expat in the UK. I was at an overnight house party this weekend, and all of the children had cups of tea with their breakfast. One of the other parents offered my two-year-old black tea. I had to turn that down.

If you're a bad mother for giving your son the odd sip of coffee, then the millions of British parents allowing their kids a cup or two of tea daily are all abusers.

See, and here I was thinking she'd been positioning herself to run for Jon Kyl's Senate seat in Arizona. That would be a much surer win for her (it'd drive John McCain bats, too).

Paragraph 2 and 3 should be swapped, IMO. She mentions someone called "Huntington" without context, then explains who he is later.

Rise of the head-thumping migraine, I believe you meant. Owwwwwwwwww.

Eeep! I live near Birmingham.

I usually give the mens equations to solve.

Heck yes. Dodai seemed to be looking for action heroines set in contemporary stories, but I'm willing to make an exception for Xena, not least because Lucy Lawless is my celebrity doppelganger.

When I read "Uterus of Horrors", I am ashamed to say that the doo-wop chorus girls started up immediately:

OOooOOooh! Caesars' Paradise Stream, right? I used to live right up the road.

Recipe links please? I am in the UK and I have a SERIOUS jones after reading this.

Possibly too tangential to be a witness, JadeBamboo. But the American Tape Worm Civil Liberties Union could file an amicus brief!

Agreed. I've just seen a flash on the Guardian that Dior is about to announce they've sacked him. They have done exactly the right thing here, IMHO.

When I read this on the front page: "On Monday evening, Natalie Portman released a statement on the video of Dior designer John Galliano declaring, "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed." (Last week Galliano was arrested for an alleged racist,…

"But pitocin kicked my ass." Mine too. I was rocking along, singing through the contractions, dilating like a champ, and the Judling wasn't budging. When they jacked me up with the pitocin? Nonstop screaming. Had an emergency, general anaesthetic C-section in the end anyway (and thank goodness: Judling's cord had two…

@RaisinGirl sucks so you don't have to: Tulle skirts and cowboy boots and elegant, Biblical diction.

If I squint, he looks like Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall.

@Sadie Stein: Prime Minister's Questions. Public Healthcare.

I can think of a lot of British things I'd like to see exported to the US. Many of them begin with P: public footpaths. Pub lunches on Sunday. Private Eye.

@LolitaVida: Which is perfect, because that would happen roughly never.