Thank you so.much! I've "followed" you. I may well be in touch one day. :-)

Seems like bridezilla has already arrived!

All the time.

Oh my goodness! That's awesome! Will I need a medical note? To whom at city hall would I want to speak to?

I see it kind of along the same lines of a Jew (such as myself) using the "K-word" or referring to themselves as a "Yiddie" (as I have done) or of a person of color using whatever racial slur is demeaning towards their ethnicity with each other. It's kind of a taking back, embracing the title to make it something…

I love this! Not because I have so much money to throw away, but because as someone who is a)legitimately allergic to the sun (I am the only person I know with a full-on collection of parasols that actually get used) and b)has PTSD & claustrophobia both of which are triggered by things like standing in crowds of…

*snort* I read my bible and decided to flip the collective Abrahamic Traditions the bird. There goes that argument, eh?

I see this as being not a huge deal- I used to work at an army surplus where we had to pin the clothes on the mannequins all the time in order to keep them from sliding off or looking like Charlie Chaplin was part of the display. Please trust me when I tell you, no one at the army surplus was interested in appealing…

That...is a really good point that hadn't even crossed my mind. Thank you for that. I'm guessing that the results would reflect an ethnic bias if they looked across ethnicity lines as well as presented gender lines.

Oh that sucks. I'm sorry to hear that.

"Pretty.dang.difficult."

Articles like these make me feel sooooo thankful for my IUD. It would be pretty dang difficult for a bloke to circumvent that without my knowledge and complete compliance! Not impossible, I'm sure, but pretty.dang.difficult.

I too, grew up in a town that had volly firefighters/EMS. Both my brothers and I volunteered in the dept. When I was living in NYC, I met and began dating a NYC firefighter- right before 9-11. Everything was going well until 9-11 happened, and then he went from being really sweet to a totally self-absorbed dick. When…

When I was training a service dog I thought I might not be exposing him to enough people of various races because there were these two guys in my neighborhood, one hispanic the other black, that the dog would go absolutely aggressively NUTS over (he is a very sweet-natured, passive golden retriever who adores people).…

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Awww! Chris Brown made an April Fool's joke! How adorable of him.

I actually came up with a blessing for suicide bombers who are of the belief they will get virgins in Heaven for their murderous deeds:

So ya know, I initally read her name as 'Lila Fowler'. I had to go back and re-read. Hooray for pre-teen & teen angst books being firmly lodged in our subconsciouses!

I'm there!

I'll bring the chocolate to go with the mac! I'm kinda weirded out by the idea of men in the red tent, though. I'll go if there is a clause clearly spelled out that this is a 'flirting free' zone.