Way better than murder.

Yeah, the parents are obviously kind of dicks, and the "adoptive" parents too, but do I think a child being sold by her mother to another family is better than her being kidnapped? Hell yeah. I mean, she wasn't sold into slavery or prostitution, she was sold into another family where she had other siblings and people…

I've been rapt following these stories. Wasn't there a third girl in Ireland as well?

I feel like the correct response to this is for people to start writing Robin Thicke/LeBron slash fanfiction in which Mr. Thicke is a size queen.

I... cannot read his mind, so I have no fucking clue what exactly he meant? After he said it, I pointed out to him that when I was about 12 I did in fact go deliberately attempt to flirt with guys I met who were in their 20s and 30s, but I didn't want sex, I wanted to see if I was attractive because I was…

Actually, not this one. I met him at a concert, where he turned out to be a college buddy of the lead singer of one of my favorite bands. In addition to the weird comment about kids, he also clearly thought I was some sort of groupie and that I was going to fuck him just because of his relationship with the band.…

Yeah, I love Lolita because of the narration style, which is just utterly unique and I think has a lot to teach about literature and the craft of writing.

I once went out with a guy here, and we were discussing Lolita because I mentioned it's one of my favorite books. And he told me at one point that he understood how guys might "misinterpret" the behavior of young children as flirting because, for example, his friend's 6 year old daughter kept sitting on his lap when…

SVU is responsible for introducing me to one of my favorite redundancies, the phrase "website on the internet".

That makes me really uncomfortable. I had a serious problem with overeating as a kid, and now if I eat too much I suffer from hours of horrible abdominal cramps, chills, pain, and other issues I'm not going to get into publicly. I'm also still not ever quite sure where the "too much" line is. Someone yelling at me to…

I think there's a lot of other hidden variables at work here. I worked as a nanny for several years and in many of the families I worked with, despite having essentially three parents, the younger children were behind compared to an older sibling at the same age.

Help! I'm in West Hollywood for the rest of today and tonight. I'm solo and without a car, and have no idea what to do with myself. Anything particularly great I might be able to walk to around here?

If I ever get married, I'd insist on keeping my name.

Weirdly, the thing I find funniest in this is the idea that women who wear more makeup are a danger to your boyfriend.

I actually do my own french manicures. It's pretty easy, even though I'm pretty inept at beauty stuff. The kit cost $5 and has lasted me 10+ manicures so far. But my toenails don't like being perpetually polished, so eventually when normal sandal season ends I have to let 'em go au naturale.

Have you tried Dillards? They carry a lot of odder sizes (says the 32D) and I couldn't find 44B on their site but they do carry 44Cs and I know some of those the cups run small. http://www.dillards.com/shop/Lingerie-…

I refused to wear anything but sports bras until I was 16 and had a serious issue with boys commenting on the temperature of the room every time I had to give a presentation in class. When my mom finally talked me into "real" bras in 10th grade, that was one of the major selling points she used for getting something…

Okay! Sounds like a plan!

Ah, I live in Austin, so everyone wears sandals all the time... but we do have a high percentage of wanna-be eccentric tech billionaires wandering around.

Unfortunately, it depends on your audience. Some of the stricter fashion rules are getting relaxed as time goes by and society changes, but there are still plenty of folks who will look down their noses at you for wearing the "wrong" thing in certain situations. It's particularly problematic at events like dinner…