I was ~almost~ turned off to it by the first season. Luckily my brother said "Don't even try to finish it. Skip to Season 2. You will miss nothing." And now I love it :D

Ms. Davies. Darling. Toto's Africa "might be the best song ever?" This is worrying. Are you feeling all right? Do you mind if we run down the "signs of a stroke" checklist?

Very interesting, thanks for the extra info. Is this language specifically regarding sexual assault?

If ever we needed Stabler to be real, it's now. These kids'd be sunk.

With a big helping of "I am not a lawyer," I'm pretty sure that rape is a crime of "general intent—" no requisite to prove that there was intent, just that the act occured.

Yes, that is so fucking disgusting.

Of all the tortured, disgusting legal backflips being performed in this case, this one always comes to mind.

Absolutely.

IS IT WRONG ENGLISH!?!?!?!

He was distracted! He was looking at a GORGEOUS sequence dress.*

Good call! I do this with carne asada and flatiron steak and yet it never occurred to me to do it with strips / chops...

I really miss my gas stove mostly because of steaks. It's possible to get a cast-iron up to temperature on an electric... eventually...

In mid-20th-century America, male sexual prowess was often measured by how QUICKLY the man achieved climax. This stuff would obviously be an evil trick by Lady-devils. Dunno if that concept persisted into the 1960s but if so it makes Don Draper seem a little less impressive.

Totally. This is just something they put a medical-sounding name on it to make it seem "legit" when there's plenty of ol' fashioned remedies already in your home!

It's somehow always incumbent upon the minority party to "take the high road." Perhaps that approach would be "better," but there's a lot of bile built up from decades of maligning, dehumanizing language used by the Catholic church, the office of the Papacy, and this particular individual himself towards gay persons…

Ugh. I had to Google "March 14 Steak" and now feel dumber than when I started ;)

Yes, yes, yes. Even something as simple as music gets problematic — iTunes, Amazon MP3, and the like are great but there's a lot of blind spots. I guess it has to do with distribution agreements, but it's REALLY frustrating to see something on a foreign iTunes and not be able to buy it in your region. I'm certain…

This is not some new thing reserved for the Pope, that's the tone of Jezebel and Gawker. Some previous article titles:

I hear you. I had a lot of discussions yesterday about "changing from the inside" as it related to the Boy Scouts. I guess I just see a LOT of alternative options to the Catholic church (much of my family has splintered from Catholicism and went Lutheran and Episcopal) so it's more difficult to reconcile wanting to…

Criticizing the Pope is not implicitly criticizing Catholics, the same way that criticizing Obama is not implicitly criticizing Americans.