"I like doing things like creating romantic dinners, and she enjoys that."

Re: Door 2 - Talk about making a Faustian pact.

Looks like a cave entrance to me.

I mean, it's a caaave. Get it? A dark hole, you know, a caaave, a dark moist place you can enter and do things. Do I need to draw you a picture?

My eyes! My eyes!

I don't mind the dicks, I don't think it's particularly shocking, and from a distance they kind of look like multicolored Good n'Plenties, which is funny.

I suppose according to the Doctrine of Schafly, the facts really are different for conservatives - otherwise, much of what they say would make no sense.

I think they have internalized a deep contempt for women, and somehow manage to think they don't really belong to the same gender. And I certainly don't think this attitude is a thing of the past.

I remember being really puzzled, as a kid, when Phyllis Schafly would go on her rants about how women's liberation was going to ruin American womanhood by encouraging mothers to work outside the home and leave their families - and she was doing all of this on nationwide speaking tours that took her away from her…

Ha! I was walking with friends the other day, and their 17-yr-old son did that with me, thinking it was his own mom walking next to him. And I took his trash without even thinking about it before saying, "I guess any mom will do when you need to get rid of stuff, huh?"

Lessing's Martha Quest character had me completely undone for five novels and the months after I read them. The protagonist in Borges' short story The Circular Ruins still wanders in my mind.

To be fair, Brad has always been on the slender side of man himself.

Agreed.

I hope that eventually, they come up with a response that makes Mitt Romney look like a gracious, cool guy instead of a whiney toddler.

Great post, Tracie. Just by trying to break the cycle, you are already doing so much towards not repeating it.

..."it's unacceptable that he didn't say "NO ONE deserves to be bullied based on their sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation."

Is it supposed to emphasize cheekbones or something? It just looks weird. And she is so beautiful already...

Something tells me this isn't about the barter item itself...it's about something you would like to unload. Hmmmm?

People, people, let's not start a bidding war on where to send significant others in exchange for cash. Think of the impression we are making on other nations.

Yeah, what's with that? I've seen that on other young women. Is it supposed to look good in certain lights or from certain angles? if so, which ones?