Lillian Vernon actually sold dress-up box sets that came with floaty chiffon thingies, gold lame thingies, velvet thingies,feather boas, tall pointed hats, etc. I bought them for all my nieces and nephews back in the early 90s. They all loved them, including the boys. There’s just something about a feather boa...

I didn’t know they were married. Huh.

Perhaps we could start by holding people accountable for having the information they need to in order to do the job for which they are applying...

I have a greyhound who had to have a leg amputated. I was walking him one day and a little boy comes up to ask me what happened —I tell him the dog has cancer, yada yada. He says, “So what did you do with the leg?”

yeah, I was wondering about that. Glad to see you went there first.

May be. But taking the stance that your adversary is unbeatable and incomprehensible doesn’t seem like much of a success strategy either.

Actually, I think the very definition of naive is pretending that the world has never before seen a ‘purely distilled sect.’

That is true of any fundamentalist sect—that they separate themselves out of the mainstream faith as ‘true believers.’

Secular western progressives have to deal with religious extremists all the time—kind of comes with the territory.

Actually, like almost all religions, Islam offers salvation to ALL its adherents, not just the ones who blow themselves up. And, just like fringe Christianity movements (think Duggars), the sect that blows itself up for salvation is just telling all the others that they won’t be saved.

I am, in fact, almost completely senile by this definition. Left the keys in the car, left the car running, LOCKED the car doors (old-school style) in a parking lot while shopping with my mother and 3 sisters. Took a long time to live that one down—actually, it’s been a decade and I haven’t lived it down yet.

She must come from one of those countries where they have those terrorist doors that open automatically.

So, unless every Muslim in the world was in on the act—how did people know, as the towers fell, that it was an act of Islamic terror that they should be celebrating?

Renard, I believe you have encountered a former tomato in its latest iteration as Alex Livingston.

Have you tried the Zomig inhaler? I found it worked much more quickly than the tablets. It did make me nauseous, but, hey, I was nauseous anyway from the migraine.

Guys, for the migraine sufferers out there—I had an amazing neurologist who, about a decade ago, put me on Neurontin (gabapentin) as a prophylactic for migraines. Gabapentin is a drug that is also prescribed to diabetics and chemo patients for their peripheral nerve pain (and to my greyhound, after his amputation, for…

Note: You do not correct another adult’s manners in public. You just don’t.

Well, first you would have to find a Republican who can read.

As tomcat points out below, people lose their jobs for ‘moral turpitude’ on a fairly regular basis, even when those acts are committed on their personal time. Why should an NFL player be held to a lesser standard than, say, a politician or a teacher?

Oh, was he convicted? I missed that. He faced charges and jail time. Huh.