@Megan Carpentier: How can you say that you didn't mean racism was worse? You clearly meant that when you said "racism has an uglier face". And then in your reply to GoodMorningAngeles you imply that being called a cunt is worse than being called the "n" word. I don't see how you can turn around and say "you can take…

@hamburgerhotdog: Yay fixies! I have 5 bikes. One for each of my many moods.

As columnist Catherine Bennett has said, what Cherie likes to think of as her 'enlightened self-assertion' always 'rested on a very traditional foundation: her husband's career.'

Did anyone watch "I Can Make You Thin"? It was a TLC show that aired last month. There was a very game-showy host who told you that you could loose weight by not dieting. His technique was basically what the WSJ article talks about - mindful eating, and other "secrets of thin people".

Nice gigantic cross.

Really? I'm the only one who has a similar story? This same thing actually happened to me, but with a diaphragm. I left it up there so long that it is now permanently stained brown from being filled with blood for over a week. I won't tell you what the blood looked like when I finally took it out....

@BeckySharper: It's a good health insurance plan through my employer, and the medical group I go to is very prominent in the area (Cedars Sinai). There was an article in Marie Claire about this topic a couple years ago, written by Jennifer Friedlin. I couldn't find the original, but there's a post by Tobes on Hear me…

@BeckySharper: Totally agree with you, but wanted to point out that women in America don't have fast access to reproductive health care either. Average wait time for a mammogram in LA is 3-6 months. It took me 4 months to get my last scan. It took 6 months before I could see a specialist for infertility.

Note that in The Netherlands the abortion rate is the 2nd lowest out of all countries surveyed for the story, and they are the only country with no time limit for getting an abortion.

There's a passage in an Anne Rice book where one of the vampire characters describes humans as whirring objects that he couldn't identify with anymore. That's pretty much how I feel when someone tells me they are under 30. I don't see any difference anymore between 17 and 25. From 25 to 30 on is when you start to…

I mean, check this out.

I like that she doesn't carry her dogs in a handbag.

check it out

she looks like Brigitte Bardot here. I think she said in a recent interview that she was trying to be the best person she could be - just not to animals.

I like to think that someday I'll have someone to follow me around carrying my purse for me - drunk or not. Because I love huge bags, but they are so tiring on my weak arms.

Plus, her left knee is missing, which makes it look like that leg was cut out of another magazine and pasted in place.

I refuse to get upset over anything that happens on The View. I could get more insight into the world by watching old re-runs of Gilligan's Island.

"Hello Arun? I seem to have misplaced my neck. Did I leave it in the loo?"

@Scoregasm: That comment just struck me as desperate for attention. Which makes me sad because she's so talented and successful, and not a train wreck like so many of her peers.

@Too Hot For TNR: @Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: I think that a lot of people confuse being depressed with clinical depression. All of us have ups and downs in our lives, but clinical depression is different in that it isn't necessarily attached to an event. It may have been triggered by an event, but…