@rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: I will make an exception for novelty song parodies.

Ugh. I hate novelty songs. And I really don't like "the Countess."

Every time I think the Pratts could not sink any lower, they surprise me. They are vile and I frankly wish them nothing but ill at this point.

@shanaynay: Ah yes, the passive voice to get out of really apologizing trick. I know it well. Argh.

Andrew Sullivan used 50 words where two would have sufficed: "I'm sorry." He's such a narcissistic ass.

@btower10: You're absolutely right, and you had to learn these very grown up lessons terribly young. Sadly, over the years, your friends will catch up with your experience and they will join the different world that we live in. I have a friend whose father is ill with cancer now, and I have become someone she turns…

@LouisiAnna: It was seven years ago this June. She was very generous through it — sharing what it felt like to take the measure of your life and come to accept dying. It was also awful and painful, of course.

@bluebears: You were the one to point out that "that was a different time."

@RousseMacabre: Me too. And I am a life long Dem.

@LouisiAnna: And I am genuinely sorry for your bf. The best that can be said is that this experience shakes most of us out of the resentments of childhood.

@LouisiAnna: My mother died before either of her parents did — and she was amazing enough to recognize that while she had taught me so much, she couldn't teach me how to cope with the loss of a parent.

@bluebears: Doesn't make it right now.

@quatrevingtquatre: Food porn indeed!

Right after my mother died, I remember reading a Salon piece in which the author wrote about the shock of realizing that so many people he had known had experienced the loss of a parent — and that he had no idea what that meant until he lost his own parent. He realized that no matter how well meaning you might be,…

@waitingoutthestorm: You are lucky to have been able to make peace with your Mom. So did I, before mine died seven years ago. I have friends who could not and that is especially hard for them. I cannot say it gets easier, because loss is loss, but you are not alone in the feelings you are having and life can be…

@quatrevingtquatre: Um. Wow. Almost worth getting on a plane from Chicago for!

I don't recall anyone questioning whether Justice Souter, who has never been married, was gay when he was being confirmed.

@elizaboo: There's no federal legal protection for homosexuals.

@quatrevingtquatre: Is that like a girl scout cookie samoa turned into a cupcake? Because if it is, please to explain where such a delight can be found??

I love her, but am finding the wax work and her next to it kind of creepy.