WHY DID I NOT ALREADY KNOW that they are making a mooooooovie of "Beauty and the Beast"???? WHY, WHY, WHY??? I feel like working an actual paying job and being a half-decent mother and wife are really getting in the way of my gossip-maintaining time.

Well, I've long been an advocate of free love, so ...

All of my dreams are dead.

I'm completely shocked to learn that a state senator from South Carolina is an old white musty douche bag. Seriously. Shocked. Entirely shocked. Really.

WHUT? I did NOT know that. I have not liked that movie in the past ("Contact" and "The Waterboy" are my husband's "Steel Magnolias" and "Terms of Endearment"), but ... well, Max Martini ... that changes things. Gonna watch that movie now ...

Shhhhhh YOU GUYS, I have something very important to contribute to this discussion: Y'all gotta watch a lil' show called "The Unit." It's about a clandestine Army unit type thing that goes around the world killing world leaders and such-like, and MAX MARTINI IS IN IT A LOT, and that's all I know, frankly.

I think she just means, "I like the way his neck smells."

Also, I'll agree that we should restrict abortion ... only AFTER we've implemented a system wherein every unwanted pregnancy in the United States that magically morphs into an unwanted child (funny how that happens — so ... odd, really) ... gets free food/housing/clothing/medical care/lifelong schooling and…

I absolutely disagree with most of your post. I don't believe the problem lies in the two-party system. Check out the countries that have a zillion or more national parties. Are they doing any better, overall? They might have better social and welfare systems, but their governments are so fragmented that it's nearly…

I ordered this book on Nov. 28. It was to be my Christmas present. From what I've learned today, after trolling several LIW-related FB sites, it appears that the cut-off for shipping copies from the second printing was Nov. 20 or thereabouts. Sigh.

Screw the lime. Where is the Cuervo Gold?

I'm not drinking anything with a TEXTURE. <hork>

I know, sigh. I was, admittedly, giving them the benefit of the doubt. Wait, what? What is that you say? The Constitution doesn't ONLY apply to men???? Wait, what? WOMEN CAN VOTE? In ways we menz do not always approve???? THAT IS OUTLANDISH!

Ah, but see, you miss the point: Show me all the women currently in Congress who are determined to invoke laws that restrict what a man can do with his penis part (whateverthatthinglookslikeinasciencetextbook). THAT is the point. If you can't label the parts correctly, you don't get to make rules about it. If you…

Right. I wasn't even referring specifically to GOP on the fiscally conservative thing. There's a whole "bring us a Reaganite blue-dog Democrat" move afoot right now, even.

My heart just leaped out of my chest and high-fived me.

I'm going to Photoshop a picture of my daughter's Nerf Rebelle cross-bow into Hillary's hands, on that picture. THAT is the T-shirt I'd wear.

Is this a gay thing? I think it's a gay thing. SHE IS TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH GAY STUFF.

I always come back to what noted philosopher Bruce Vilanch had to say about Log Cabin Republicans: Why don't you just go out into the parking lot and beat yourself up?

At the risk of seeming classist, it appears that Rep. Kern forgot to put her teeth in.