@jfpbookworm: Yep. here we go, again. Fun!

@girl_talk: I really meant what I said on a systemic level only. These discussions always have two heads, a "personal" head and a "political" one. I totally agree with you that it's not right to assume there would be no babies put up for adoption if only their biological families had more resources. I would add that…

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Renee at Womanist Musings has said as much. She is 100% opposed to transracial adoption, so the whole entry is snarktastic.

@velma: Yeah. I am a little bitter that it's not okay for Madonna to "rescue" children from a country which is recovering from colonialism and corruption without much help and has a justifiable reason for not having infrastructure right now (her son was literally about to die of pneumonia when she met him for the…

@velma: She adopted from NOLA. IMO, colonialism squickage applies at this time in New Orleans' history.

Pffft. "OhMyMadge" has been around forever. Upstarts.

@nobodyr: It also depends on the woman. If a woman is sentimental or conflicted about her abortion, but still wants one, forcing her to endure a description of a beating heart and fingers and toes will cause mental anguish. Not every woman who wants or needs (or both!) an abortion will want to break out the Dom…

@TheRoyalWe: I guess what some people call "best", others call "luckiest". Anyone zooming down a ski slope right now could have just as easily been born to a street vendor in Bangladesh. The fact that they weren't is just random chance, not an indication of inherent superiority.

@blametheredline: Agreed. M looked way better before she let Anderson sink her little money-grubbing claws into her.

@Rosaxé: Sequels to fragrances are lame and lack appeal. If someone wants to wear Glow, they'll wear Glow; "My Glow" just seems derivative and knockoff-ish. SJP got it right when she gave her perfumes different names.

"The ideal body type is not always the healthiest body type" No shit, Sherlock. Good of you to crawl out of your cave and finally engage with the rest of society.

@wandergrrl: Reading your comment takes me back to the first time I took yoga as an adult. It was literally the only place and time where I had my own permission to be kind to myself. It was bliss.

@moonkitten: A good yoga class with a good yoga teacher will never put you in a situation where you are injured or humiliated. A roomful of serious, non-mirror-athlete students is a roomful of people who are too busy concentrating on themselves to care what you're doing, and a properly-trained and ethical instructor…

@Hortense: I agree. I have been a fan and adored Madonna for 26 years now, but in the past few years, she has lost me. Just after 2004, she really began to become more fearful and to change for the worse. She is now more shallow, less playful, more artificial and terrified of aging. I keep trying to figure out what…

@ytuhermanotambien: Agreed. It's really bothered me for the past decade, how uncreative her contributions have been. I wish she would start doing really whacked-out performance art, or painting, or writing non-fiction. If she wants to make a strong statement with her music and shows, she needs to show a lot more…

@Ack: ....And on the flip side, those same people dismiss concerns brought up by profilng, because they see those concerns as self-serving. I thought of this when I saw the picture accompanying this article. I can just imagine my a-hole relatives going; "Oh, of course she's against it, she's brown."

@meritxell: an erotic life: Bingo. Sometimes when I am having a conversation with people, I ask them questions like; "What was that like?" or "How did so-and-so feel?" or "What changed, after that?" and if they don't know how to respond, I know we could never be real friends. I prefer to interact with people who can…

@la.donna.pietra: I understand it's a difficult position, but I still maintain it's not impossible. Becoming a mother is such a huge, long-term responsibility, I am loathe to think anyone would undertake it just because it's the path of least resistance.

@la.donna.pietra: I can appreciate what you are saying, to a degree, but the Palins probably don't own any handcuffs or manacles. Bristol is a white girl from a wealthy family. I am sure she could have gotten her hands on some RU-486 if she'd wanted to.

@HeartRateRapid: Her jerky bf knocked her up, but she chose to carry to term and become a parent. She's not a victim, she should be obligated to respect the fact that she made a choice.