I think Germans have Monday off because of Pentecost (can anyone confirm?) Berlin/Berliners is/are badass AND rent is cheap - who wants to move there with me?

@hortense:

that girl is totally just about to pop that balloon and scare the crap out of the woman in front of her.

Like there's a rape spectrum? Well, it wasn't Outright Rape, but just Date Rape. Which is totally different from Marital Rape. Uh, NO.

@poires et poireaux: Or one called "Yup - Japan Is Still Being Japan."

@olivia2.0: AAAH! That's exactly what I thought - my buddies and I spent a week with that game, every night, in the dark, until we won.

Related: I heard that the gene for naturally blond hair will no longer be in the human gene pool. Given the wide spectrum of "blonde," maybe it's just that Icelandic platinum color?

@Whiskey and Popcorn: Rub it in, why doncha? ;)

Virgin Panda Birth! Jesus is a Panda!!

I read that because the Y chromosome is dwarfed by the X (and thus contains fewer genes), men have less genetic material - which is why male twins are generally more identical than female twins.

@ellaesther: I read somewhere that this response was Nature's way of protecting women from additional damage - not that this makes any more okay.

@Penny: @Penny: My qualm with this "majority rule" thing is that so long as a majority agrees to do something hateful, it becomes law. Like 2/3 of all baby kittens must be destroyed because there are too many damn cats in my neighborhood. I could probably find a majority for that, but that doesn't make it less…

Glamour: you are bad for women and you are so BORING. Stop recycling/regurgitating mainstream culture and hire some talented, witty writers (there are so many unemployed smart writers!!)

@LucilleMcGillicuddy: I like the new SJ format, too. Celebrities bore the hell out of me (yes, I know "Celebrities" is part of Jezzie's sub-title).

@MilointheMeadow: I should have also put, "And their obesity rate is much much lower." Durr.

@topsy: Agreed. And, I think high fructose corn syrup is kind of a problem. It's such a cheap sweetener and extraordinarily bad for you. In Scandinavia, at least, I can't find HFCS in anything, and their diet isn't all that different from ours.

That... sounds like me, only ten years ago. Down to the 4 miles a day.

@FashionShowAtLunch: That's what I was thinking - all of this is based on quality of offspring, so what do homosexual couples take from this study? If anything at all.

@MilointheMeadow: Thanks, everyone! I really need to look into this!

OK, I read everything out loud. Not because I can't read to myself but I just enjoy it *so* much more when I do. I've been doing this my whole life, and have yet to find one person who doesn't find it extremely annoying.