The equivalent gay dad to Ellen's lesbian mom would be Neil Patrick Harris. I think if this had started with an attack on him, followed by a nice clean cut gay family like the clean cut lesbians in the catalog, it would have had the same result.

If anyone is looking for a good sci-fi version of Alice in Wonderland, I highly recommend The Looking Glass Wars. Not any math to speak of, but there was a really creepy scene with skeletons that eat rich people.

If Park Slope's rich choose their spouses for appearances, as that author seems to be suggesting with the "marriage is only for procreating" quote, then the marriages are more like business contracts than romances. Thus, it is probably part of the unspoken contract that they sleep around.

Ah, the Sonics, how I miss you. I remember one rainy day coming up with an entire aquatic roster for the Sonics. The Out to Sea- attle Super Sonics. I can't remember them all, but I had Shawn Kelp, Gary Plankton, Detlef Shrimp, Under-the-sea Hawkins, Skate McMillan (the fish kind of skate). That's just what rainy…

Serial Killers are a type of celebrity. They tend to be primarily male. The women who write them letters and want to marry them are STALKERS. The only difference between a woman writing crazy love letters to a Menedez and a man writing crazy love letters to Lindsay Lohan (who is not a sociopath, I presume, but does…

Yup. THis is an important point that often gets ignored.

Chris Hardwick has been on my laminated list for quite some time. I recently added Vincent Kartheiser and had it relaminated. It would have been awkward had I been there, since they were there together, but I feel I am up to the challenge.

The tricks they could play in a pre-TiVo world...

That sentence was intended to mean meat-eating families, but you are correct that it does ignore people getting ostracized for food choices outside the meat/non-meat dichotomy. I should have worded it differently and I apologize.

My point was not that other kids don't get ostracized for other food choices at all. It was to say that veg* families are not all somehow horribly intolerant. Pretty much the only way they get presented here is as snots.

I think if you talk to most families doing the veg* thing, you will find that there are constantly discussions about other people making different choices about what they eat, and that is ok. This is merely a social survival thing. Only about 4% of Americans identify as vegetarian/vegan, so if you are raising your…

There was a list of people that have not gotten dementia, implying they should.

I think you are right about not wishing it on others. I just want to point out though that people with dementia do suffer. There is a period of time when you are aware of what is happening, and you are aware of what you will become, and of the burden you will be on your family. Alzheimer's runs in my family and it…

Whoa! I missed that it was Pete in the mirror!

I wondered that, too. We don't know that Pete revealed anything, only that Ken assumed he did. It could have been several people, including Peggy, not realizing the risk it was to Ken. I think it was Peggy because they have that pact and it would put a strain on their friendship.

Yes, he was. How interesting. And he was "begging" Megan for a baby, but she said no way. You're right. They are chipping away at the gender expectations. A little bit of feminism goes a long way. For boys and girls alike.

Pete is suffering from the Masculine Mystique. This idea of what life is supposed to be like for a white guy from a rich family, that being king is supposed to be the goal and supposed to make him happy. But it doesn't work, because their is no self-awareness in it, no ownership of it. It is just what he is…

Is it the first on Long Island or the first in the country, because I know there was one in Seattle in 2004: [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

Little off topic, but the paintings reminded me of a blog I read about why nude women in classic art are always covering their crotches while nude men are showing off the full monty: [melissahuang.com]

I had a Teela eraser. For some reason, I erased her boobs off and then regretted it. I wish I still had that eraser.