The message that I take from this ad is that cigarettes will make your backyard look like a Craigslist free furniture post.

Marilyn. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Good line.

Any Melanie Lynsky's playing his wife! I love her! She never gets enough work!

It may be blasphemy to suggest it, but she also looks like she's had work done since I saw her last.

[buries head in hands and weeps pitiously]

This means that she's RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.

- Be loyal and supportive to the people with whom you share your home. Nothing is less charming than a woman who can't be bothered to respect those closest to her.

Eh?

Oh, where is that wily Goldbug?

Incidentally, she was (ridiculously) pressured into making a public apology after her remarks at Columbia's business school graduation in 2005. Worth reading; I think it's an awesome, very funny, very down-to-earth speech. She made a great analogy to the world being like a hand, with different areas like different fingers.

Guess which finger was the US.

These guys are clearly TITANS in the field.

How do I get a line of man-briefs named after me? Do I need to move to Canada?

It's more like a kind of twisted version of noblesse oblige, where instead of turning the oblige outward (i.e. with opportunity comes responsibility to help others), it turns inwards, as kind of moral imperative to perfection in terms of academics, work ethic, and, particularly, aesthetics.

We're talking about people who aren't allowed to drive. Who can't consent to sexual intercourse. Who can't vote. Who can't drink.

We've already made the call that, hey, there are some kinds of choices that we don't really trust you to make without hurting yourself. But if a 12 year-old gymnast with a bleeding ankle says "no, Mom, I REALLY need to practice" we seem to give it an awful lot of slack.

1949: Margaret O'Brien (the little girl from Meet Me in St. Louis!)stars. Dean Stockwell plays Colin Craven! Whoa. Never seen it, so no idea if it is terrible or not.

1975: BBC mini-series. Never seen it.

1987: Hallmark movie. Includes WW1 prelude/postlude with Colin Firth.

1993: Francis Ford Coppela production. I thought good!

Meryl - 58

Her three paramours:
Colin Firth - 47
Pierce Brosnan - 54
Stellan Skarsgård - 56

When was the last time you saw any of those actors with a woman less than 10 years younger than themselves?

Babelfish translations crack me up.

My sister and I, when in our cups, have been known to oblige her.

[hides face in shame]

The FEMINISTS.

I mean, I haven't bought them yet. My resistance has held. But as the weather warms, I might succumb.

"Tricks don't work. Discipline does."

Brrrr.

Ultimately, he resigned, she didn't (until many months later), and Cellucci (the governor at the time) actually stood by her and defended her to a point; he said if she wasn't misusing public funds or her position, then any allegations about her sex life ultimately weren't relevant to her ability to do her job.

Of course, she was an appointee, not an elected official. They're a different animal.

I wonder if people watch this with their teenagers just to have that conversation. I would.

Rather this show produces in me long and complicated internal monologues detailing the specific childrearing techniques that will enable me to not have these children. That and fear that these kids are going to grow up into the dudes that will hit on my brilliant, beautiful, unborn daughter in a vacation bar someday.

I do love Nanny Jo. Her expressions are priceless.

And it looks AWESOME!

The real issue here to my mind isn't so much the ACOG ruling as the Federal "conscience" laws of which it's potentially running afoul.

It's one thing to say "our professional standards don't require you to do proceedures you find objectionable, but you do need to give a referral" - though again, my grandfather is lambasting them from beyond the grave as third-rate hacks.

It's quite another for the Feds to step in and say that if you take away a doctor's licence because he refuses to provide a woman with the medical attention she needs, you're breaking the law.