They don't NEED to have large expenditures. They don't NEED to be Redskins cheerleaders. Someone up-thread made the comparison to beauty pageants, in which people must spend a huge amount of money to win, are required to do personal appearances to generate money from the brand, and do not get paid anything for. It's…

Huge Redskins fan here (I know, I know - I was born in DC and have lived there almost my whole life.) My sister and I auditioned to be Redskins cheerleaders. My friend was a Redskins cheerleader in college. It did not cost any of us thousands of dollars. Hess's article is really kind of biased and doesn't lay out a…

But they're also one of the most successful NFL teams in terms of making money - which is why all the other owners want to emulate the terrible Danny.

Did these studies take in to account the poverty - obesity relationship? Because I think that would have a huge effect on the results, right?

There's actually a reason behind it other than ticket sales. It was a sport that was unfairly dominated by the USA, because it's just not played by woman elsewhere - similar to how women's hockey was dominated by Canada. Until it becomes a more nationally recognized sport and there's a more even playing field, I'm…

Hah! Honestly - no, you do not. Or if you do, they didn't make the money from being an Ob/Gyn. Ob/Gyns have the highest malpractice insurance out of any other medical specialty, and as a result they have to work incredibly long hours to make relatively small amounts of money. When you take into consideration the fact…

This time last year we lost our house in a fire while we weren't there. One of the firemen told us they thought they had seen the cats fleeing the house, but we thought they may have been just being nice, and after days of searching for them we were pretty sure they were gone. Then one day we were in the house,…

No, it's not a big deal to put a stool in a Starbucks. What IS a big deal is that when you are standing on a stool permanently - not to reach a tall machine or do inventory or whatever - you are unable to make the quick little adjustments that you need to to get out of people's way in a very small, very busy work…

Aw, lame. Some of us just grew up in DC and have loyalty, you know!

If you use it correctly, it will not happen. It's very, very rare, but if you actually get it in your eyes (the way people did when it was used for glaucoma) it can change the pigmentation of your eyes. But if you are careful, you'll be fine.

Wow - totally going to place a $20 bet on her thanks to this!

I don't think Irin was saying the medical treatment is bullshit, I think she's saying the idea that this woman CANNOT SPEAK BECAUSE OF IT is. Come on - let's not be ridiculous here.

I mean, chances are that his wives were dedicated to Osama's cause - which would motivate them to protect him at all costs, just like the rest of his soldiers. I don't really think it's an issue of abusive love, I think it's most likely an issue of being fanatically devoted to radical Islam and the terrorism it…

It is really, really easy to say "Come on man, I'm not going to talk about that." The fact that Stern asked doesn't make it better at all - no one had a gun to his head.

Derivative of Gaga, I guess?

Yes, it's absolutely a problem (and I actually said that in several of my comments.) But the solution for that would have been for Obama to include tort reform in his health care bill. OB/GYNs have the highest malpractice insurance of any other medical specialty. As a result, the top graduates from medical schools no…

Many reasons - more older mothers, more multiple births, higher rates of obese mothers and mothers with pre-existing health problems, and the culture of malpractice in this country which is, rather than making us safer, causing a real decline in the level of care we're able to get.

This book was the most emotionally manipulative, schlocky bullshit - the ending is ridiculous. The only thing that could have made the movie worse than the book was the addition of Anne Hathaway, so congratulations I guess!

"I want to be able to because I'm progressive and stuff, but I just can't."

Hi - I'm so sorry for the bad experience you had, but your characterization of doctors is absolutely incorrect. It sounds like you had a bad doctor, but I promise you that no doctor considers a C-section an "easy fix" - they consider it less of a risk to mother and baby when things go wrong in labor. Just like in…