"There's no such thing as a Western Washingtonian who hasn't at one point or another wanted to leave because of the gray gloom" Nope, it never makes me want to MOVE. A nice trip somewhere nearer the equator around February is often nice, but that's it.

Maybe the people in the west who don't want to leave are balanced out by the people in the east who do want to leave, resulting in average? (Seriously, you would have to pry me out of western Washington with dynamite, but eastern Washington? Might as well be in Texas at that point. Well, except for the pot and gay…

The low numbers on Texas really surprise me — because there is no force on earth that could make me happy to live in Texas, and I know so many Washington/Oregon folks who moved FROM Texas and are super-happy about that. Confirmation bias, I guess. Although I would be interested to see the breakdown according to…

People like you must be why the Oregon numbers are so much lower than the California numbers — but it makes sense, right? You love the Pacific, but California is too expensive and Washington is too soggy — so Oregon it is! (I'm a California transplant who likes Washington's sogginess, but know I am not necessarily…

The saddest part about this quote to me is the number of women in the audience that were most likely nodding along.

Yup. The point is that everything women do is wrong. So the exact wrong thing that they do varies infinitely, just to make sure that every possible choice made by every woman is covered.

Yeah, everyone who talks or texts while driving has a great excuse for why it's okay when they do it. And it probably is okay... until the one time it isn't. You're playing the same kind of Russian roulette that drinking drivers do. Maybe you'll get lucky every single time and never cause a serious accident. And maybe…

Ugly shoes have been in for some time now, it's just that previous ugly trends were about super-high platforms and insane stillettos.

I know, right? I think Birkenstocks sometimes look "ugly" in shots like this because they are angled upright and show the foundation of the shoe in the foreground, but when they are on your feet, people mostly see the top part. The top part is actually very flattering. I get compliments all the time.

Just World Fallacy. Google it.

"These guys are just as idealized" If you mean, in the picture above, yes, that is the point. If you mean "in general," then let me explain the point to you again: mainstream superhero comics operate from the apparent assumption that their audience is heterosexual males too young to buy real porn. Female and male…

What you mean is that Catholics aren't evangelical Protestants. Don't let the EPs "own" the concept of what it means to be a Christian. I mean, I know they want to, but...

That's fine. We don't respect you either.

Is it remotely possible that they hired an outside ad agency for this? And the ad agency is displaying their contempt for the Republican Party? And the Republicans didn't notice? Because that is all I can come up with.

To both of you — if you really want to reset, maybe you should find a community that doesn't denude and hang out there for a while until it starts to seem normal. (It needs to be a place people spend a lot of time semi-unclothed. ) You'll probably never lose your preference for hairlessness, but it should lose some of…

Socialization works that way I guess. Ask him if he thinks the Bible was written in King James English, and whether cheese is disgusting, and whether he thinks durian fruit is a food or an act of mild biological warfare.

Thank you! I'll try to remember that. Moose Knuckle.

I caught myself almost engaging the trolls below, then didn't, because they were so disgusting. But one of them made an argument that I sometimes see made in a less trollish fashion: the idea that it's all okay because Hollywood *does* make movies for women — you know, "chick flicks" or whatever — and…

Ugh, when I'm in the presence of camel toe (or the male equivalent, which has no name that I'm aware of) I TRY not to look. My eye keeps getting drawn back there. Like if somebody's missing a tooth, or has food on their face. But I think camel toe was a much worse problem back during the olden days of the 1980s — the…

I would flip that. I would assume that anything I built myself — with my limited understanding and personal flaws — was WAY more vulnerable to failure than something emerging from a billion years of successful trial and error.