I should have just done that with every pair of jeans I ever bought, given that I have a 28-inch inseam. I could have been fashionably dragging fabric this whole time!

I call most people I'm close to "Dude," be they male or female. I also use it instead of swearing at people in traffic - like the kid who rides his skateboard right out in front of my car - I just yell "DUDE!" That's enough.

Did they ever actually hook up? I only got to season 5 or so of West Wing.

The Federal Reserve is not really part of the government.

I didn't say it was the ONLY thing that irritated me ;-)

And I keep getting all irritated that the relationship between Cyrus and James is just ethically impossible. A journalist covering the White House in a LTR with a senior official? Not at any reputable news source.

It took me a minute, but then I realized...hammers...nails. Ohhhhh.

I know. It looks nice. A lot of nail salon places look like fluorescent-lit factories with 80's color schemes. Too! Much! Turquoise!

But is there still a tiny, impossibly gorgeous woman to frown disapprovingly at the state of my eyebrows?

News like this always makes me think of this epic rant about writing and publishing.

I think they're probably more likely to blame the women rather than to empathize. Just guessing.

A friend went on business (she's a healthcare software trainer) and said she had never been as creeped out and insulted as she felt there as a woman. It started when she tried to check into her hotel and was told that couldn't happen at the desk, but around back at some special desk for unattended women...and went…

All my dreams are dead now.

Yes, they issued him a big pad of paper and a box of crayons, and he has been sitting behind his big desk for days, designing away. It's just the way it happens in the Obama White House (when they're not busy destroying freedom).

When I was a kid, my mom watched General Hospital and I would watch along with her. I remember Luke raping Laura, then a while later them becoming a couple. I was only a kid, but I quit watching it because it made me sick way back then. Before I knew hardly anything about the world, I knew that was fucked up.

Yes, thank you for clarifying.

Is the greasy hair look in this year?

I wish every potential date rapist would wear one. The warning would be helpful.

A good instructor is so important. The worst is those instructors where it is all about them and not about their students. Teachers need to meet their students where they are, not expect students to magically improve just by laying eyes on their instructor's perfect form.