The Honda ad: So. Painful.

Two Towers is the slow second act (well, if endless battle scenes can count as slow) of the LOTR. Skip to the third book.

Sorry to hear about your wife's pain - that sounds both scary and awful.

I remember Mol's VF layout/article. Christ on a stick, the photos were hot. If talent and career could be based on a single photo shoot, she should have been the next Meryl Streep.

Point taken on the 'interior' ultrasounds vs the 'exterior' exams, but still, they shouldn't be painful. I've had plenty of both, including when I was heavily pregnant, and they were never more than mildly uncomfortable. Maybe they do them differently in the US than here in Europe, but they just aren't that bad. It…

1) Ultrasounds are not, generally, painful (although the gel can be a bit cold and icky). They are also not, in most cases, necessary for an abortion. The point of forcing women to have an ultrasound directly prior to an abortion is to force them to look at the fetus, as if they haven't given full consideration to the…

Excuse me, ma'am - you have a monkey on your foot. Better than a monkey on your back, but still, mind the laces.

My guess is that Dorothea was always a badass, and hasn't let age stop her.

First, the obvious: Violence against innocent animals is never okay, and in cases like this, signs of a very sick individual who needs to a) be arrested and b) get some serious mental health treatment. 'Nuff said.

I hope you get the acknowledgment you deserve for the tolerance you demonstrated in this situation.

Awhile back there were the urinals that had a ceramic fly strategically placed so that men would try and aim for it. The actual goal was to encourage men to actually pee in the damn urinal and not - as is so often the case - all over the entire restroom.

Why do people persist in the notion that raising children to lead a blinkered, fear-based existence will somehow make them mature adults capable of mature decisions?

Dark Shadows was the reason I used to pretend to be sick to stay home from school.

If the GOP and its supporters were likely to be upset by totally inappropriate, hypocritical, dodgy, mendacious, cowardly, avaricious, selfish behavior on the part of their candidates, we wouldn't have had a Bush (II) presidency in the first place, there wouldn't be the seemingly endless array of total crazypants…

Well, it's like any other dangerous activity - it always goes just fine most of the time, and every so often, it doesn't. That's what makes it dangerous. If you knew you would die just by trying it, you probably wouldn't do it in the first place. People don't 'play' the game of shooting themselves with a fully-loaded…

That doesn't mean it isn't dangerous.

Someone said this below, but this look is just what most French women do most days.

Gaaah - we rescued two newborn lambs on X-mas morning from a neighbor's field where the mother ewe picked the morning of a major snowstorm to birth her young. ZOMG they were heartbreakingly adorable and bleated to break one's heart. No videos, though, we were too busy getting them out of the snow and hauling straw.

You say that now.

So, this teen boy has an imaginary bear that talks to him, and it tells him that his life will be defined by going into a girl's house by insinuating that going inside = Going Inside. It "doesn't feel right".