That's disappointing! I have a pair of docs from 1996 that I still wear on a regular basis, and they've held up just fine. Curse you, "improved" manufacturing!

It really disturbs me that so many people in positions of power don't understand the difference between being in the minority, percentage-wise, and being in the minority when it comes to power.

A country singer went to jail for being intoxicated outside a church? Damn, Randy Travis! You're one affair away from being the living embodiment of the perfect country record!

I hope so! I can pretty much pick up what Madge is laying down, but haven't explored her history much. If she was undermining the institution she was propagating, she is my new favorite person ever this week.

I'd say it was right on, but perhaps not in the way she intended.

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As a Midwesterner, I don't have a problem with it. I use "you guys" all the time to speak to all different groups of people. If we change that, we're also going to have to change "alumni" and pretty much all romance language words we adopted. Words that used to connotate one thing now connotate another, ya know?

The older cat who thinks that because she's playing with all the kittens, she's still relevant.

Fascinating! Also painful. I hope you have a better evening!

Anal spasms?!?!? Dear God, that sounds like the worst thing ever.

We're not all bad, I promise! Some of us even border on normalcy, though mostly in that drunk, ruddy, la-z-boy and Fox News kind of way.

That story immediately jumped into my mind, too. I used to joke that I lived in the land of beer, cheese, and serial killers. Apparently it's time to add violent threesomes to that list?

So, so true.

It's all about St. Catherine University. My English classes there were 30% lez, easy.

One of my friends just posted this on Facebook. Oh how I love the Muppets.

Poor baby. Get well, Bella!

And nacho cheese is neon orange, comes in a can, and doesn't need to be refrigerated.

"Wednesday is taco night."

Over the past few weeks I've become convinced that Newt Gingrich is really Darth Vader. He is using the force to control the minds of the country. Case in point: today on Face the Nation, he repeated, over and over, that Mitt Romney was "dishonest" without once mentioning a specific lie, or, obviously, Newt's own…

Same place as you. I finished season 1 and school started. Haven't started season 2 yet, but I may have to make time. It is incredibly exciting! They strike a really good balance between character development, plot twists, historical stuff, and humor. And Maggie Smith is, of course, brilliant!