Here's the thing I wonder about — do those things SELL? I mean, are the "sexy fill-in-the-blank" costumes what women actually BUY? Because honestly I don't see very many of them out on the streets actually being worn — here in the Seattle area, anyway.

I don't separate darks and lights either. I don't have any lights.

What I remember in high school was that actually being gorgeous wasn't a protection against mockery AT ALL if you were otherwise socially awkward. All it means is that if you go to a 20-year high school reunion, you'll find all these guys who had crushes but were too shy or cowardly to go against the dominant social…

Wow. I have never felt this. I have also never felt the urge to have children. Related?

Bikram himself may be a jerk, but I've never had a Bikram yoga teacher who was a jerk. And it's still my favorite yoga style — I've tried non-Bikram hot yoga and non-hot yoga and they just didn't work out.

I was at a party recently where we tried to come up with the male equivalent of cameltoe. We settled on "situation" as in, "you could really see what his situation was" or "you got a vivid picture of his situation."

You know, I'm going to disagree here with all the people telling you that "if you're hungry, you're doing it wrong." One of many myths of our dieting culture is that there is some magical way to lose weight and not feel hungry, and I'm pretty sure that is frequently just plain not true. Standard disclaimer: every body…

Of course kids should be taught cursive in schools. They're taught algebra in schools too, do most of them use that in daily life as adults? If you're going to go down that road, why bother to teach kids anything at all?

Probably — but I think the big trend is people getting all theatrical with how hideous they find it. Like it's fingernails on a blackboard or something. I came to hate it in ads for baked goods where it used to be presented as a positive, as if you'd want to EAT something moist, which, no. If somebody wants to use…

Don't you know? It's better to not have any Black action figures at all. That way white people don't have to worry about whether or not they might be offensive to somebody. (And I don't know what has to be wrong with a person for them to look at the one of Django and see "slave" and not "badass Black cowboy")

Nope. 99 percent of the time, the psycho boyfriend is the threat. He might even successfully save you from other psychos, maybe, once in a blue moon, if he gets lucky. Then he takes you home and beats up on you himself. That's what psycho boyfriends do.

"Could there be any reason for this other than pure greed?"

Probably muscle weight, yeah. Those stats sound really plausible to me, because I'm built kinda the same way. I also have thick bones, which I've never broken, and sink legs-first when I try to float, etc. etc.

Okay, I don't like it when I encounter people floating through life with chokingly high toxic clouds of scent about them, but you won me over with "Everything will simply smell like raspberry hand sanitizer after this, as it mostly already does." Also, even though I am one of those hypersensitive ninnies, you are…

If you want to claim that a particular literary genre is "smarter" than another, you should be careful not to sound like an idiot when you do so.

It's not really that complicated.

He said it was clear that everyone understood that what Romney meant was that he had binders full of resumes of women and other qualified candidates for when they need people in their organization

They don't seem cute to me. They seem way too fake. But I think the thing that makes Ann seem so deeply unpleasant is that she doesn't come across as apolitical at all — Laura Bush was actually pretty good at that, so I think you could look to her as a model for how it's done — she comes across as somebody trying to…

Hi Estelle. If I read you correctly, what you are saying is: you are conflicted about abortion. The thought of it happening makes you feel emotionally uncomfortable. Although you don't think you agree with the adamant anti-abortion side, you sense a lack of support on the pro-choice side for your discomfort.

This, a million times this. It just seems obscene that somebody could blow, on a dinner, an amount of money that would make the threat of medical bankruptcy vanish in a heartbeat.