I feel like this is a list of what to read on the beach if you want to look totally pretentious. Also, who wants to lug Infinite Jest around in their beach bag?

I guess those pigeons felt the same way I do about Kings of Leon.

My great grandfather was a New York City policeman. My great grandmother was a nurse. One day, my grandfather and his partner brought a man in to the hospital. "What are you doing on my floor?" asked my grandmother. "Take this corpse to the morgue!"

Love how inclusive this is. Sara Gilbert is gay, Holly Robinson Peete has an autistic child, Sharon Osbourne's children are adults, and Marissa Janet Winkour had major fertility issues which she's discussed openly. This seems like a major step in a good direction to me - moms from all walks of life!

When are we going to stop with this idea that it's necessary for us to prove ourselves to the Republicans. I know, blah blah, we should be better than them, etc., but the Republican party has plenty of members who display outright racism and have never been asked to resign. Why are we so desperate to jump any time…

I think human relationships are nuanced, and we can tell by instinct when someone is "stalking" and when someone is really stalking and being dangerous. My mom and dad met when my father sneakily arranged to be in the same summer share house as her, since they worked at the same hospital but she wouldn't give him the…

I've never really been a Samantha Ronson fan, but the way she just handled that hateful tweet was pure class.

@daradoodle: I'm not talking about reverse racism. I'm talking about applying our cultural issues to another culture. Please take the time to actually read and understand comments before you reply to them.

Come on - I hate Sarah Palin's politics as much as the next person, but I find it hard to believe that she is so politically motivated that she cares nothing about her daughter and engineered a reconciliation with the guy who wouldn't pay child support, publicly trashed her, her family, and her daughter in the media,…

@ShadyLane: Well, I find it pretty interesting, because apparently that's why pale skin used to be prized among the upper classes (pale = you don't have to go outside to work) in America and England. I'm not sure why tan skin is prized now, but someone above suggested it has to do with the idea that you have the…

@Queenjulie: Well, I guess what I am asking though, is - in India, is it because they want to look like Caucasian people, because that is the standard of beauty? Or is the standard of beauty light skinned but still Indian? Like you said - white people do not tan because they want to look like black people, it's…

Question - if this was an ad for Jergens self-tanning moisturizer, that did the same thing, only made you darker, would we be as outraged?

@Parenthetical: Judith McNaught is super rape-y though, to be fair, so probably not going to fly here.

@CapitolaTheMadcap: Thanks for this, from a romance editor. :) Romance goes through cycles - in the 90s, for instance, Navy Seals were really in and everyone shifted to writing army books - and now it's paranormal. In the next decade, it will be something else. These comments talking about how people think they could…

@Ruby_de_la_Booby: You're missing out! How I Met Your Mother is fantastic!

Ugh. Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney movie, I was obsessed with Maleficent growing up, and I hate the idea of having Angelina as Maleficent. I also thought the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland was a disaster though, so I guess that's coloring my opinion a fair bit.

@H_is_for_Heretic: Really? So do you think men should openly sport erections at work? Do you think women should wear bare-midriff shirts? Where do you draw the line? We have dress codes at work because of what does and doesn't make people uncomfortable, generally in terms of sexual suggestiveness, and that's why it…

@BuffySummers: Well, the reason I get confused by the piece is that her boss says he doesn't want to get in trouble with the restaurant's manager - that suggests to me that it may have gone farther than the customer's comment. She also says that she feels there is no right to ever judge anyone's clothing, unless it's…

I'm not sure I agree with this.

Aw, boo! I love that teacup print dress!