Also, she is right. American women are fearsomely ambitious, thankyouverymuch. Compared to the sorry example of English women that she seems to represent, we're far too busy getting our Master's degrees to worry so much about snagging a soon-to-be-filandering husband.

Wait, POLISH??? OK, Liz Jones knows nothing about Polish women! They are the most manicured, plucked and put together women I know - and I'm not even Polish!!!

@Trashtastic: You've got your work cut out for you...

@TruculentandUnreliable: That's why I like the Irish way - we drink for a good three days and then we get around to burying...and then we drink some more.

@kgibbs: Exactly. Madonna used to eat tons of candy (mike 'n ikes - I saw 2 of her concert riders from the '90s) but she also worked out constantly (she requested 2 treadmills and free wieghts in her dressing room - from same said riders).

Any Hollywood starlet who reads (or is even photographed with) the Grey Lady is fine by me.

Is there nothing my little Madonna Veronica can't do? Wait...I think we might get our answer out of Berlin.

@braak: This was my thought, too. I'm dying to get the purple diploma that says "Northwestern" across the top...not put on orange lipstick and parade around for $75 a week while spending $925 a month on "upkeep" simply so that I can sport the uniform.

Ummmmm, what?

@braak: Yeah! Stick it to the man! Those grad school libraries are mafia run!

Also - the navy nails are out. We're embarking on "resort" season. Pick up a fucking January issue of any fashion mag, LiLo, and get those digits painted a warm hue.

Hey, Pippy? What's w/ the braids, the boots and the collegen?

SEE Lindsay?! Take a cue from your sis: GO BACK TO YOUR REAL HAIR COLOR! For fuck's sake.

href="#c3466453">lfw1031: "Ecstatic"...I wanted to type Xtatic.

@braak: You just cut me to the quick. I received a B+ for a class I struggled with throughout the entire semester. I kept telling myself I would be happy with a C (the minimum needed to continue on my Master's track). It was a difficult class for me and I spent hours researching other books on the subject that weren't…

I heart Tina. That is all.

@braak: PS - if Cthulhu were running, at least you'd know on which side of good and evil he stands.

@braak: Yeah and I think these uber-long campaign periods and primaries backfire on the candidates. They only succeed in making the public testy, jumpy, suspicious, angry and just plain tired.

@Miss Expatria: I see Shiloh going to Harvard and, then, the UN.

@braak: Ah, but see then your disdain is with her flip-flopping...NOT her need to succeed. That is a valid point.