I hope they lock him up forever.

She gives me a Monday morning happy, badly needed!

I think the male hysteria and pure vitriol that surfaced over such a plain question is a pointer to the kind of rage some men still feel in our supposedly liberated time about women and anything to do with lady parts. No wonder we're getting so much shit on the birth control, contraception, rape and assault fronts,…

understandable, but in this case, I'm grateful it got out, since we share a certain amount of audience, and I'm grateful that I'll no longer be straining smile muscles to speak well of her. Apart from me always testing out as Hagrid, which is gratifying to a critter rescuer!

You ought to have a sit-down strike at the very least. A woman has to have principles, dammit.

Okay, she got me. I've been keeping my opinion of Rowling at lukewarm, but this is something only an author could do for a fan, and she did it. I'm an author of books for kids. Any author who does something so special for a fan is alright by me.

Being fearless is not a requirement—in fact she'll be a helluva lot more interesting if she DOES reveal fear when she's in the shadows, fear and uncertainty, at least in the beginning. It's ACTING fearless in the face of the enemy that matters. It's building herself as a female hero that will earn her bigger…

I hear wishful thinking and there's no one there...

you know nothing, Jack Troll. Go read up on why women are so wary.

truth or sarcasm? I'm not sure. I wrote it straight up.

not this fresh!

All you can do is the best you can. You write and talk about what you perceive as needing repair, as do a number of us. Others are in health care, child care, law enforcement, social work, and all the other jobs that add to quality of life rather than rip it apart. We donate, contribute, put money in the wrinkled…

one person's narcissism is another person's contribution to society.

While the good people try to work out the goals of these terrorists, while they try to answer the questions, these women and girls are being beaten, battered, and raped, as well as sold into marriage with complete strangers. They are being forced to work as slaves for their kidnappers when all they wanted was an…

I hope they get jail for life. (Bein' agin the death penalty.)

There's a cop shop right where Broadway and 7th cross.

I actually haven't ever cared what anyone had to say about my childfree status. After a certain point of discussion, I used to just shrug and walk away. They don't get it, and I'm not going to unwrap a childhood of poverty and then abuse to say I spent a lot of time looking after my sisters and my mother, then I was…

See, he just makes me want to go "awww, let Mama make it better," as I straddle his lap, give a little wiggle, pinch his poochy little cheeks, pour the contents of an entire bottle of Cytotec into his gullet, and clamp his jaws shut until he's swallowed the lot. Then I'd smile and whisper, "See, that's better than me…

Funny—non-white people were forced to do it in *my* lifetime. It wasn't that long ago. Of course, nowadays people aren't asked to step off the sidewalk, or told to. They're just shot, and then it's called "Stand Your Ground." Is that hyperbole, too?

No. Racism does not work both ways. Racism only works from the powerful position to the powerless position. It will be decades, if not centuries, before whites in the western world are subject to racism. Until then the best they can hope for is big meanies calling them names, while other people are the recipients…