I refresh my dog's water bowl a few times a day, and she still strains to drink from the fetid puddle that drips from a pipe in our parking garage. Her tastes aren't precisely discerning.

Yes, never mind that the poor woman suffered from eating disorders for much of her life — the important question is clearly the size of her hips.

There are so many reasons not to change your name, in addition to the general "femme covert" ickiness. I also work in academia, and didn't want to disrupt my publication history. Plus I saw what a hassle it was when my Mom remarried and changed her name — in some cases, it took months to straighten things out.

I didn't change my last name, because as far as I know, I'm the only member of my family of my generation to carry it (I'm the only child of my grandfather's only son.) More practically, I didn't want to go through all the paperwork to change it.

Re: Chris Brown: please please please.

Re: Chris Brown: please please please.

Can someone recommend sheer pantyhose that last longer than a day? I'd had good luck with Donna Karan, but I wore a pair for an interview a couple of weeks ago, and had a run within an hour of putting them on. At $18 a pop, I was displeased.

I am not a fan of this at all. I want LiLo to return to her former funny, flame-haired glory as much as anyone, but I want her to do so by getting clean and by tackling a high-quality project that doesn't require her to take her top off, and that takes more than a couple of days. Then she can appear on SNL again. …

I assume he's afraid that people will terminate pregnancies if the prenatal testing shows any abnormalities. Because we should reduce complicated medical issues and heartbreaking decisions to "let God sort it out."

I really don't intend this to be bodysnarking, but does Michelle look thinner than usual? I can't imagine the sort of pressure she's under, not to mention all the assholes commenting that she's a hypocrite for advocating good nutrition for American children and also occasionally enjoying a burger. In conclusion: I…

Seconded - I once tutored a girl whose parents had homeschooled her for a couple of years before reenrolling her in public school. She was so very far behind her peers that I was worried she'd never be able to catch up.

Even his language is telling - he doesn't support jail time for women, but for mothers. Women don't exist for him separate from their reproductive capacity. We're all potential mothers to him, unless someone dares allows us the choice not to be.

Here's Ellen Woodman, the 13-year-old's "accomplice" — she was only 11!

It keeps you from leaving, silly!

Your dog sounds exactly like my dog! So there are at least two of them in the world....

Here, let's get some actual facts in the featured thread, since you don't seem to have any:

Just in case anyone's in doubt about the science: "In February 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened a workshop of over 100 of the world’s leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk. Workshop participants reviewed existing population-based, clinical, and animal studies on the relationship…

I guess this is because I am pro-birth control and pro-choice, but I simply don't understand the people who automatically oppose Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services. Yes, it provides abortion services, but it also provides other, vital, live-saving care. And yet to hear some commentators, if…

Maybe it's Dude I'd Like to F*CK?

I joined the Bone Marrow Registry last year, and they took pains to specify that many transplants now take place through Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, which does not require general anesthesia.