@Giant Squid trumps all: I just started a desk job, too, and a couple things I've found that help: drink lots and lots of water so that you don't feel as hungry, try to walk during lunch, do weight training if you don't already (more muscle = more daily calorie burn, even while sitting), and brutally examine your…

@RobespierreHasComeUndone: I think for graduate school/academia it is best to have someone who knows you and can best express all your wonderful qualities...and if that person is retired, it is fine. Unless they have a reputation as having lost their marbles since retirement :)

@lodown (is waiting for MizJenkins): In my experience, those who go by the moral code that sex outside of marriage is wrong and that masturbation is wrong generally also consider naked non-hookups wrong. O'Donnell has talked about the evils of suggestive DANCING, for goodness sake. So, as long as she is seeking a…

@marciax3: I lived just north of Jacksonville and had lots of friends in the Marines; I found most of them less homophobic than the general population in the area. They seem way more worried about who has the skills to watch their back than who does what in private.

@Jeenzy: Also the same way. I actually copied down the line from the Jezebel "How to Break Up With Someone" article and put it on my phone, so that I don't make stupid excuses after one bad date and can just end things free and clear. And as for not replying or saying no, according to what I hear, many people email…

@chiwhatwhat: I would prefer that we divide restrooms into two categories: one for fastidiously clean people, one for "other".

@Meg: Not only did he choose her, but he hasn't demanded she step down now that everyone with half a brain can see what a big mistake he made. If he were truly a maverick, he would admit his mistake and take measures to correct it. But, NOOOOO....

Since this is Disney, I'm assuming they aren't going to have a "Queen" half marathon anytime soon to attract the gay market?

Willing to wait another 4, at least, for our turn, thank you very much.

That is more of a coffee-shop-entertaining, self-accompanied by guitar, "here's a little song I wrote about the time my boyfriend of five years left me for his dog's pedicurist" sort of voice than one meant to cover an 80's classic.

When I moved abroad for work, I never expected that one of the things I missed about the US was access to The View. Off to search online for the whole thing...why couldn't McCain have picked Whoopi as his running mate????

@cautionarywhale: I teach Environmental Science, and whenever we get to our unit on Nuclear Energy and Waste I find myself pausing, every single time, before I say the word "nuclear" just to make sure I don't sound like the idiot that is our current president.

It strikes me that this is important, not because men are saying "boo-hoo, we feel pressure too" but because it brings attention to EDs as a MEDICAL (physical and pchychiatric) issue, not as some weakness in women. Plus, showing how common it is in men may encourage physicians and others to recognize the problem in…

@therinth: Irony? Disconnect? That implies that such people are thinking rationally to begin with... Remember, this is the party that is rallying behind a man that said Russia should get out of Georgia because countries don't invade sovereign nations in the 21st century and then talks about our "successes" in Iraq…

If only this clip would be viewed by the people who NEED to see it because they buy into the hype. Then again, the whole critical thinking thing might be beyond them.

As a science geek, I have to point out that YOUR OWN perception is probably not important here...I'm sure that many people in the study would also have said, "Ew, I am nothing like my in-law..." Pull out the calipers at Thanksgiving dinner this year and compare dad and your significant other—and then let the…

One benefit of Olympic body ogling is that people at least equate enviable physiques with actual exercise. Much preferred to ogling airbrushed models on fashion mags, who tend to maintain their "enviable" physiques with drugs, eating disorders, and/or starvation.

These companies have no incentive to actually _act_ green unless the consumers demand it. If we don't buy their products, they don't make money. (Okay, I can't afford to buy luxury products anyway, because I am actually an environmentalist by trade.) If you think Estee Lauder is being ridiculous, don't buy anything…

Oh God, next thing you know the government is going to be forcing insurance companies to pay faith healers.

@lisas: No, I was not the target audience, but I think what led to my success is the exact opposite of what this type of book is doing—this book is emphasizing differences rather than emphasizing the lack of differences between boys and girls. Again, I'm glad if this book is helping some girls get interested in math…