OH, my dear, sweet Mariners... must you always bring up the sucky sucking part?

@aubonpam:

Has anyone heard of "supertasters?" Supertasters have more of a specific kind of tastebud and so tastes are stronger and harder to deal with.

@shananigans: Yeah, the sexual jealousy angle is just stupid.

@Anointynointy: In my sociology class in college, we were told that the defense tends to choose women for jurors in rape cases for exactly the reason you stated: there is an unspoken fear that if the victim had no responsibility for the rape, that means it can happen to anyone; thus the female jurors tend to look for…

I'm just terrified people won't actually vote if they think it's a done deal. I have my absentee ballot on my table and I am dropping it off today, but I worry something will go wrong, it will get lost, or misread, or whatever.

@clevernamehere:

@mommy_dearest: Ok, here is a quote about John Snow. He was opposed for being against the will of god, but wasn't excommunicated. I guess my dad took it a bit far:

@clevernamehere: Oh my, this is a story my dad always tells me. Now I look like I don't know what I am talking about, which apparently I don't. I need to go ask him about the tooth fairy and Santa, now, too!

If only we could use her math on other things- 13 days left til the election, but for women who support Obama, it is 17% shorter!

When a doctor invented the first epidural, the Pope excommunicated him, since women are "supposed" to feel pain during childbirth as punishment for Eve's sin (as mentioned above). Queen Victoria knighted that doctor. God bless the Queen! (true story)

@PilgrimSoul: And did you see how fast Amy Poehler left the stage without even a look at Palin? That was my favorite part.

If anyone seriously thinks she was chosen simply because of her looks, I think that is pretty naive. Her looks make her gender acceptable, but she was chosen for the exact reasons we don't like her- she is a "severely anti-choice, anti-intellectual, theocratic woman". I have close family (men and women) who were not…

@PilgrimSoul: Yes, travel is expensive. I'm not going anywhere. But that doesn't mean what she did isn't valuable. Why do we have to dismiss that just because we can't do the same? Should she be doing more here in the US? Absolutely. But honestly, we have had 8 years of an administration that sees wars as the only…

@swashbuckling: I don't know. I think the survivors own their own stories and should be allowed to tell them the way they think best. If it was just a case of "let's politicize rape just for the heck of it," but in this case, it has been politicized by someone else and they have chosen to take the control back.

@pleppy: I had an aquaintance in college who always wished she had a gay friend to go shopping with. then her sister came out as a lesbian and it hit the fan. She banned her own sister from her wedding if her sister brought her partner. Needless to say, that is why I call her an "aquaintance" and not a "friend".

@Maria: Cool!

@mommy_dearest: I meant first *female* commander on both Whitson and Collins.

Peggy Whitson was the first commander of the Space Station, not the first commander of a trip to space. That was Eileen Collins in 1997. My nerdy inner-astronaut just wanted to clarify that. She is very cool, though, no doubt!

Actually, for me what was tough on Palin was that when you open the magazine, the very first page is a matching half-face photo of Christian Slater for his show My own worst enemy. the shots are very similiarly posed and I kept flipping them back and forth for my husband asking which one was my worst enemy. Not…