This is the real reason I've been alienating my best friends from high school and college.

I'm not going to lie; I'd totally buy that sequined jacket for my child. But at least one size up, so she could get more than a year of use out of it.

@Awestruck: OK, maybe I missed something but I don't understand the disemvoweling here.

@TheOtherJen: Yes, thank you! My boyfriend is ALWAYS claiming that women are worse to other women than guys are. As a way of trying to get me to agree, he asked who made my life more difficult in high school, other girls or guys. He was shocked when I said guys. There was a group of three guys who were on the track…

@SisterMaryMartha: I watched a marathon of The Closer on Labor Day (it was gorgeous out but I was on the couch with my cough medicine) and now I'm HOOKED. Good example.

@KittenFluff: By which I mean I do the ugly bun thing, too.

@shewar: Yes, thanks for saying this. My hair is naturally wavy and very thick. If I don't flat iron it, I look like a crazy person. I don't have time to do this every day, or every other day, so I end up looking like shit most of the time.

@hortense: I typed in "Sarah Palin."

@e.b.: Well, I mean, you have a right to know if someone who could one day be the mother of your children is a baby-killing whore.

@MerlotWinters: Beautifully put. Thank you!

@SisterMaryMartha: Co-sign.

@BlowJoy: There is something weird going on there, though I don't necessarily think it's what was originally thought — i.e., that Bristol is the mother. I have read the follow-up information disproving it. But really, you don't think it's bizarre that someone would take a multiple-leg flight while in labor with a…

@SinisterRouge points out), but really? There's only one photo available of Sarah Palin where she is visibly pregnant? And she supposedly flew while in labor, but didn't stop at hospitals in Seattle or Anchorage to deliver, instead choosing to drive to her small-town, non-OB-GYN doctor??? Knowing it was a high-risk…

@KittenFluff: D.A.

@iamtrex: It seems to me D>A> Branch stopped off for a swig of Jack McCoy's scotch on the way to the arena.

Clearly, McCain is a tough person, but this has nothing to do with his ability to run our country. This speech is all kinds of fucked up.

OK, Fred Thompson is off his fucking rocker.

@rmric0: That's the American way: We treat symptoms, not causes.

@T. L. Morgendorffer: I sent you a PM a couple of minutes ago. I'm sorry you ended up feeling so horribly today. You did raise some interesting points and made me think about how personal experience and perception play into rape allegations.

@bria: I think she meant (T.L., correct me if I'm wrong) that legally what happened to her was rape, but she doesn't consider it such?