I think of myself as pretty laissez faire when it comes to media and children; I don't have kids, but that's how I was raised: you can read anything you want, and you can watch anything you want (well, provided you want to watch broadcast-only on a black and white TV, because I'm old, and we didn't have cable).

Although we'd all like to say, "Gorsh, but I'd have quit the first time they did that!" Well, the job market's rotten, decent-paying jobs are hard to find, and there is that one little thing about how IT'S NOT THE VICTIM'S FAULT. A law abiding citizen and good worker has the right to stay where they are. It's the…

Perhaps you're right, but his choice of words was appalling. To describe an extreme, regressive, reality-phobic faction of American conservatives as "conventional" or in any way having "conventional views" is like describing the Boston Marathon or 9/11 terrorists as "protestors."

Yes! Lemme guess: she knows it doesn't exist, right?

I think mentioning her affair is perhaps germane to the larger issue of her judgment. Not that she had an affair but the manner in which the pair conducted themselves...It matters that her judgment sucks.

Glad I checked before posting this. I was thinking, "Yeah, idyllic Cabot Cove, with a murder rate worse than Chicago. You definitely don't want to be wearing no red jersey in Cabot Cove."

Damned server squirrels; double post.

May the odds be ever in my favor, mofos, because I'm hungry.

which would presumably combine all the joy and wonder of dystopian police state with the thrill of being hunted down and murdered by a pack of desperate, starving child-warriors.

Its a mans world baby!

That's pretty much what I came here to say. The ad was already pulling into the station just fine without the detailed explanation for why she's not accepting female applicants. Now it's just run up onto the platform.

Yeah, I'm gonna run right out and buy dat shit.

Why, the Make Me a Sammich, Do the Laundry, and Don't You Dare Gain Any Weight Machine, of course.

OK, that's cool; I get it...as long as you don't mind, then, if I'm not the least bit sorry when something like this happens.

One of the coolest books I've ever read is A Dance With Death, about Russian women who were combat pilots during WWII. Unlike the U.S., Russia let women pilots serve in combat. The stories are pretty hair-raising. Definitely a three-in-the-morning-but-let-me-just-finish-this-next-chapter kinda book.

Also, they didn't get anywhere near "Indian...sexy color". By 10,000 miles. The term is "Native American," brain donors.

Yeah, I don't get that. Hmm, I'm in the LTR, not the "random hookups" or "casual encounters" department. What, fordalovvaGad, is in my profile that gives you the idea I'd be remotely interested in having some complete stranger tell me he wants to give me a massage, or "rock your world" (another one you see a lot)? …

Why are monetary requirements bad?

This. The free sites are horrid, and the men even less literate than usual. The last time I was pinged on a free site was years ago. The guy wanted me to get on his motorcycle with him and go for a ride...as a first date...in the middle of the day on a workday.