Your first mistake was assuming that MSNBC was some great monolith of journalistic depth.

Yes, there are double standards. But double standards can't always be used as an excuse for poor behavior. Her behavior can and would be considered appalling whether she was a woman or not.

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: THIS.

I don't have a problem with her beliefs. I have a problem with her answer, as it was moronic, and kind of circumvented the question she was asked. No one asked her how she felt about same sex marriage; the question (however poorly worded and loaded) was about state legislation, not personal feelings. I honestly…

This just reminds me of when Dr. Crusher had sex with the family ghost.

@megnificent: That's right! I'm SPECIAL. No one understands my greatness! I suffer like Van Gogh!

Our unabashed dictionary defines IUD as "love springs internal".

@megnificent: Whatever. You just don't understand me.

This is more of a case of people, once again, wishing to justify bad behavior with a serious clinical illness, which will in turn discredit the people who actually suffer from the disease.

NPD is the new ADD which was the new CFS which was the new Depression, which was the new flu, which was the new consumption, which was the new plague. It all comes back to the plague.

How on Earth someone could publish a Mavericks issue without John McCain or Sarah Palin is completely beyond me.

Also, I am of the camp that believes the tides were already very slowly starting to turn before the election season. Michelle Obama just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I see it almost as a matter of convenience for the fashion world. Here we have the wife of someone who was, at the time, an…

I understand that to a certain extent this has been done before, but is anyone else here deeply unsettled by the celebrit-izing of our president and his family?

To be honest, yes, we should examine people's motives for committing unspeakable acts, so that we can better understand them, and, if possible, help prevent it. However, a talk show is neither the time nor the place to attempt said understanding. In the end, depth will always be trumped by the need to make an…

You know, I've been considering getting a butload of surgery, spending millions on clothing, and competing in a pageant so someone would ask me a question like this, or the excellent Miss Teen USA question about world geography, and I could launch into a tirade about how placing value on superficial crap like said…

I'd rather be a Raisin Girl.

@burningdinner: I will be easy to pick out, as I am willing to bet that I will be one of the only people drinking wine at Trinity Brewhouse.

Whazzat Rhode Island?

Oh yes.

Didn't Heidi and Spencer "break up" on their "reality show", which, as we know, is the one true indicator of reality?