I'm putting it on my own wall right now. Let the fallout commence! Damn, I haven't even had any wine yet. Does a cold count? What about cold + wine? That is going to happen in 5...4...3...2...1

Maria Bamford is amazing!

Your advisor sucks. I hope you creamed him. One of Mr. Par's colleagues in grad school did her dissertation on state legislature stuff but I can't remember if it was overtly in Fem. Pol. Theory. She never had problems with her advisor in that way. I sincerely hope that you aren't at U. Minn., otherwise I'm heading…

I could swear I've seen at least four. A spaghetti one, a nap time one, a mall one, a "time the diaper change" one all come to mind. Aside from the first one (which was certainly a POS), they've all been positive and affirming of fatherhood. I appreciate that they listened to the shitstorm instead of blowing the…

I thought that only the first commercial in that series did that, and the rest of them have, to a large extent, redeemed themselves.

You rock. I tip my hat to you and your family.

I think the only reason some people have forgiven Pattinson for "Twilight" is that he's made some comments that imply that he, too, realizes that "Twilight" is crap. I don't know if the same is true for Stewart, since I don't follow her. Of course, the double standard would be, that for some of her audience, they…

Yeah, I did not care for Stewart at all in The Runaways. To be fair, I thought the whole movie was weak, and with such great subject matter, it should have been much better.

I agree with Ramona and Leucadia.

They already do say that I'm not a real Christian. : D

I wish we would use the term "moderate Christians" more often. As one, I get so discouraged by crazy fundamentalist behaviors branded as "Christian." They certainly don't reflect the Christianity that I know and practice.

It certainly isn't an option for my household, or that of my peer group, and most of the people I'm talking about have a few degrees (not me, but I'm the rare one in the group).

I had already graduated from high school. Winning! ; )

Even if putting on ALL her makeup takes 45 minutes, and I could see that, if one is starting with washing their face, moisturizing, various treatment lotions, concealer, makeup primer, foundation (liquid or mineral powder), a fancy eye shadow palate (3 or more shades), eyeliner, mascara primer, mascara, lash curling,…

200 bucks, then $90 a month???? For EYELASHES??? Really???? That is a hell of a lot of money for something that most people aren't even going to notice. I'm glad you can justify that, but I'm guessing a hell of a lot of people can't. I know I certainly can't. I don't even spend $90 a month on CLOTHES. That is a…

If anyone ever comes to Mankato to see all this stuff, look me up! ; ) I don't live too far from Betsy's neighborhood.

We almost bought the "house that didn't exist," right next to the bench. It was in too rough a shape for us, though. It would have been fun to see the bench out the living room window every day.

You should check out this book: [www.amazon.com] I've still not read the books, but living in Mankato, it was a great intro to the history of the town.

That is a great song! I wish we would have had that one in my troops.

But it was the start of the GSUSA, which is a different organization that the Girl Guides.