I buy it at the grocery, but not a lot of stores carry it. It used to only come in pound tubs, but now they make a size about half that, too. Nigella Lawson has a great recipe for roasted potatoes using it.

Also, duck fat. Oh my god, the best potatoes ever are made with duck fat.

Yes, and that appears to be a fairly recent development. And FYI, when I was there, I saw exactly one fat person. When I got back to DFW, pretty much different.

Yes, except the French have been eating this way for centuries. There are likely other factors at work, like an influx of American fast food, the changing of life style in France, I could go on so here's this:

Last time I was in Paris...a loooong time ago...I ate all that wonderful butter, and whole milk everything, and meals that had four courses and last for two hours, and you know, I lost weight. When I got home, I kept eating all that "decadent" food and I didn't put the weight back on. And my cholesterol didn't go…

Sooooooo, out of a universe made up more space than the average human mind can conceive, and God thinks we're special? Really? Because that's some narcissistic thinking on the part of us.

Yes, except you replied to *me* which indicates you're responding to *my* comments, not the article. That's how this threading thing works.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Yeah, because Blade Runner was a totally '80s thing. Except that the novella it's based on was published in 1968. Also, most of Stephen King's work in the '80s was horror.

Well, a lesbian can be married to a man. Just as a gay man can marry a woman. Happens all the time. Of course, now that gay marriage is becoming legal in more and more states, that might change dramatically. But being married to someone of the opposite sex, doesn't necessarily indicate sexual preference.

Thank you so much for saying this. It's just as shitty to be obsessed over someone's thinness as it is to be obsessed by someone's else's weight.

Is that you, Gwyneth?

I'm sorry, at what point in my post did you miss the "I say this with complete knowledge that some of us have profound body issues and I understand this might be triggering?" I must not have written that, except, yes, yes I did.

Sure, she was fine in Emma, but hardly playing a character far off herself. The only film I think she was actually good in, rather than — in my opinion — her usual one-note portrayals, was Great Expectations.

And for some reason my edit didn't take:

There was appalling case here in Austin, too. Put innocent people away for twenty-years. Statements by the children included that they had been taken up into a plane and flown to Mexico. That they were put in cages and terrorized by lions. And the doctor in the case had no training in sexual abuse signs.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find her to be a really bad actress? I don't care that she won an Academy Award, she's utterly one-note and even then she doesn't get the pitch right half the time.

This is what sprang immediately to mind for me, too.

My second therapist diagnosed me so horrifically wrong, I'm stunned I ever went back in to it. But my current therapist is amazing and I'm grateful I found her.

There are some truly suck ass therapists out there. I say this as a person who went through therapy with three different therapists to find one that finally correctly diagnosed me. Problem is, if you're in the middle of a life crisis, sometimes it's so difficult to figure out who is good and who isn't.