The math works out to 4.2% of military women report being raped, versus 0.7% of military men. So, 6X more likely to report being raped if a woman.

I learned about this tradition when I taught ESL. Pretty cool actually. More interesting was that Christmas is seen as more of a romantic holiday than a family-gathering event, so more Valentine-y than Valentine's Day.

Perhaps you should respond by patting them on the butt.

If you are not following Chris Hadfield on Twitter, you are internetting wrong.

When I taught ESL, I had some students from West Africa (Senegal, Ghana, etc.). One woman described her home life being the daughter of a second wife. The westerners in the class were aghast, "I could never live with a man who had more than one wife!" said most of the women. My first thought was, ugh, how many moms…

I wonder if my hair is long enough for #9. It would free up my hands at parties.

Oh yes! Of course we need to encourage/legislate responsible pet ownership—they should not be allowed to run around outdoors both for their safety and the safety of the indigenous wildlife. I don't think wiping out cats would be a wise thing to do, however since they are such an integral part of our environment, it…

checked comments for this very argument. Exactly. We wouldn't have survived and flourished as hunter-gatherers without dogs. Agriculture would have been impossible without cats killing all the stored-grain eating rodents and pests.

That little pup is smarter/more determined than my guy ever was. When I had a broken leg several years ago I tried to get him to walk on the treadmill in my apartment building's basement. Each time he sat down and was rolled off the back (I had it on maybe 1.5 mph so nobody go hurt). I could not convince him to…

Check your beauty supply store for something called Gray Magic. It is an inky liquid in a tiny bottle. You add something like 10 or 20 drops to whatever coloring you are using (I've used it with semi-permanent colors) and it really helps the color get into the gray.

You, I like.

I have a co-worker who wears a Lowly hat! I love it!

Ahem. Lowly is a worm, not a snake.

I use dude with my gal pals (ugh, my fingers just cramped up typing "gal pals") all the time. Hell, I've called my 77 year old mom dude now and again.

In the spirit of the upcoming end of 30 Rock, Liz Lemon's "princess" wedding was perfect—Princess Leia!

When I was a kid in the 1970s, my mother would leave me and my four siblings to our own devices while going to the store. Her parting words would be, "don't kill each other," and somehow, we managed not to.

There's a human version of the Puppy Bowl?

This makes me so sad. Maybe some other network will pick it up, like they did with Cougar Town?

Could somebody please tell me the how proportion of men who would like to play professional sports (as in, fantasize about), compares to the number of men who enlist in the military and are sent into combat? I would do it, but I'm a little dizzy from smacking my head against my desk.

-1 point for not laughing while eating a salad though.