Me too. I am sucking it up and taking the hit to my pocketbook to get the $5/pound grassfed ground beef from TJs. The upside is, it tastes absolutely delicious. Raw milk cheddar is a revelation.

Just as an aside, because until recently I was a Smart Balance person—I learned that those supposedly healthy margarines are actually not really good for your liver and therefore inhibit weight loss. I happen to be trying to lose weight so that was especially relevant for me, but the take home is that a little organic…

Ha, that's adorable. My cat likes to stare at me while I put them on the morning, I just know she has an opinion about them, I just can't tell what it is. I wear them almost constantly, she could be all "for Chrissakes, put your contacts in for once!"

That's so weird; just this morning I was wondering what my cat thinks about my glasses. I really was.

I haven't watched that show in years but I once did a mammoth marathon of it after I had surgery on my wrist and I was pretty wrapped up in the Meredith/McDreamy storyline. And surprise, surprise it kind of mirrored certain events that were happening in my own life.

Yeah, I agree there's probably a primal dimension for some. For others it seems very neurotic to me. (And I think you could place as much if not more blame at the feet of When Harry Met Sally...)

Gray's Anatomy is the show that immediately came to mind when I saw the headline. However I think you're equally screwed if were into Ross and Rachel or, for the olds, those two from Moonlighting. I'm embarrassed how much I liked that show as a teenager.

Maybe he just meant she was his work wife. What's Coptic for "work wife"?

Was "the earlier young people begin to drink" in those earlier studies defined in such a way that it would include sips of wine at dinner? I really doubt it, or those kids were almost certainly folded in with kids who started partying or sneaking sips on their own at a very young age. And how they operationalized…

I would try either Clashtalk or Groupthink over at Jezebel, I suspect both forums would be highly amenable.

It's because Jeremy Sisto has a really deep sexy voice.

I once read this book by a neurologist named William Calvin who theorized that hemispheric specialization of the brain evolved because women held their babies on the left (closer to the heartbeat) and therefore did a lot more stuff with their right hand. So specialization in right handedness was selected for and the…

Well, devil's advocate, I had a breast reduction after my kids were a bit older. I'd always wanted one even before having kids but held off so I could be sure I'd be able to breastfeed them (and also you can't pick anything up for 6 weeks so obviously I waited until my son was around three and could get places without…

One of the things I dislike most about all this plastic surgery is the homogeneity it gives rise to. There are a few commonly applied templates for how people want their faces to look that are associated with surgically enhanced beauty—and it's a very narrowly defined, not particularly interesting type of "beauty"…

I do when possible. In addition to the taste (which I often find superior) I have a desire to minimize exposure to potential harmful substances and support sustainable, locally-sourced agriculture.

I know, every big-boobed Jez is now very worried about this! But somewhere there's a line, and any responsible parent is going to have to try to work through where it is.

Yes, I think there is a right way and a wrong way to speak to a child. That's kind of the entire thrust of my thread, right? Helping her through that cluelessness in a loving way. I'm sorry your mom spoke to you that way, I think it definitely was shaming and wrong. But I also think it is possible to address these…

Yes, of course that is the issue, at the core. But I don't think I would be doing my job as a mother if I sat around letting her inadvertantly expose herself on a regular basis just to prove a point about it not being her fault if people take pictures of her—which obviously it isn't. She doesn't know. When's she's…

I recently tried, sort of lamely, to chalk it up to "society"—and little nonconformist her was immediately like, "I don't care what society thinks of me!" Fair point. I think you're right about talking to her, though. It's basically a grown-up sexualized version of when she was little and you just HAVE to break the…

She is 14. The problem is she's really developed compared with her friends so things that her more flat-chested friends can get away with really don't work on her. This is just one of those fundamental unfairnesses, I think, but I confess I struggle with how to draw the line myself. That's why articles like this get…