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That's exactly right, but the question is, risk of what? If I'm risking a little bit of discomfort and a dry-cleaning bill, which is what you generally expect from spilled coffee, I'm probably going to accept that risk and put the coffee in my lap if I have nowhere else to put it. If I'm...

You have got to be shitting me. Godwin's law. Shut it down.

Why would he? He's not Iraqi.

I don't think anyone was accusing you of racial or religious motives; I certainly wasn't. My point was simply that Obama's middle name has hardly been covered up, and that the reason the mainstream media haven't gone nuts over it is that it has no bearing on his proposed policy as a...

Not saying that it has anything to do with anything -- except that I don't really understand what you're trying to imply with "Muslim-derivative." Are you saying that because he has a Muslimmy name, he shouldn't be elected president? If you don't want to vote for him, there are plenty of...

"Muslim-derivative," hmm? I don't suppose you mean "Arabic," "Arabic" being a language and "Muslim" being a religion, since Muslims speak all different languages and not all Arabs are Muslim? And that's the thing -- Barack Obama has a scaaaary Arabic middle name. OOGA-BOOGA! It's not...

What's Mike Huckabee's middle name? Mitt Romney's? John McCain's? What was John Kerry's middle name (I volunteered with his campaign, and I can't even remember - something with an F)? Middle names aren't generally considered too terribly germane to the issues discussed during campaign...

I have to disagree. Hillary Clinton chose to use her maiden name in her professional capacity, and she became known professionally as Hillary Rodham Clinton. George Bush the Elder is frequently referred to with middle names to distinguish him from the other George Bush who's often in the news...

As one commenter to the article pointed out, the tradition is to save the top tier of the cake and eat it on the first anniversary. That's a full year of seeing her severed head staring back at you every time you go into the freezer for a Lean Cuisine.

The article says that Bartch really has no legal recourse, but those disgustingly sappy e-mails alone should be enough for a defamation suit. "I went to sleep last night with a smile because I knew I’d be dreaming of you ... but I woke up this morning with a smile because you weren’t a dream.”...

Okay, smart guy, explain this one:

There's a difference between "I disagree with evangelism" and "I hate evangelicals." Don't go making up reasons to get pissed off when there are so many legitimate ones available.

It certainly raises some questions about that one steamy, drunken encounter at the 2004 DNC.

Hold on, hold on -- you're not?

You're so cute.

Excellent. And that $5,000 deductible doesn't bother you at all? I think more people grasp that than you think. I think that a lot of people are trying to prepare for the future, and that means making sacrifices now. There aren't a lot of careers that leave you flush with cash the whole way...

Well, not to come off as a tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist, but if something as clinically subjective as sanity is can be used to take away guns, what prevents the government from abusing that mechanism should they choose to? If (insert government entity here) decides that you need to...

That was exactly my situation. When I got out of college, the job market was in the crapper, and I was having a bear of a time finding work -- everyone loved my resume but just didn't have an opening. Unwilling to just not work, I temped for three months before finding a temp-to-perm position...

I was out of college and working full-time for six months before I found a position that offered insurance. If anything'd happened in that period, I'd have been SOL.

Yeah, but we're talking about reasonable expectations here. Most people are prepared for most things that might come up. I've got a great insurance provider, some savings, and some reasonably conservative investments that aren't going to get me rich but will likely be there should I need them...

So when you're downsized, your WorldCom stock ends up devalued, you can't afford COBRA, and no private insurer will take you because the type-1 diabetes for which you're now seeking treatment is a pre-existing condition, you deserve to go blind and lose your legs because you made inadvisable...

Not that it's actually possible to do that with any real certainty. Not drinking heavily and not smoking and getting plenty of sleep at night may reduce your risk of cancer, but they won't prevent it entirely. Driving cautiously and wearing your seatbelt won't keep that tree limb from falling...

Oh, come on, now. This is a topic that can certainly be discussed without anything turning bad, unless people are going to start taking things personally unnecessarily. Sack up and address: Is it not possible to acknowledge Jesus's existence on the earth without addressing his religious or...

There are folks who believe that man has never set foot on the moon.

It's not so much a matter of recognizing Jesus as a religious figure as recognizing him as a historical figure. Enough evidence exists to suggest fairly reliably that there was a dude named Jesus who was born in Nazareth and wandered around causing trouble toward the end of his life. Whether...

I was raised Catholic and have stuck with it because it works for me, moreso than any of the other organized systems I've felt around, anyway. And this is despite a few significant reservations I have about several tenets of the Catholic faith as handed down from the Vatican. It just feels...

But that same effect also concentrates campaigning and election season attention on swing states and those same big-vote states that always get attention anyway. Having lived in the Deep South through the past two elections, I've seen plenty of Republican candidates sliding through for face...

Well, the Christian Bible does endorse slavery (as long as you treat your slaves humanely), and I can think of several places in the Old Testament where God Himself has endorsed the wholesale killing of entire races. And it could even be argued that this country was quite literally built on...

That's just so impressive. And one moment of levity, when they brought in the guy who'd been shot by a sniper while handing out candy to Iraqi kids: "He shot you?" "Yeah." "You didn't shoot him back?" "I was a little busy laying on the ground, crying like a bitch." ETA: Watching the whole...

There's politics, and then there's partisan politics. Churches can't engage in the latter, but they can support causes that are also supported by politics, as long as they don't endorse a candidate or party explicitly or tell their parishoners how to vote.

But it's so simple: Go over to your ex-wife's house, ask her nicely to get them out of their jar in her china cabinet, and kick away. :)

I know plenty of women who either aren't interested in having babies (but want to raise kids) or who just plain aren't interested in being mothers at all. I think women are just reluctant to talk about it because we're all expected to looooove the baybeez and want to have a million billion of...

Got it. Disco.

Okay, that's just a little bit of bullshit. While there's been evidence to indicate that kids do better with at least one parent readily available full-time, nothing has shown that that parent has to be the mother. I know plenty of fathers who have been better primary caregivers than a lot of...

Well, pregnant and not likely to be a Naval aviator and pregnant and not likely to make partner at a law firm aren't exactly the same thing. A pregnant SNA isn't likely to have a lot of success in flight training; a pregnant attorney can litigate right up to the point where her water breaks...

Agreed. I'm not arguing that unequal = unjust (although I think that unequal treatment can, in many cases, be unjust). I'm arguing that different in nature isn't different in value. Different aspects of men and women are unequal. Average height? Unequal. The average American man is...

Pregnancy is a circumstance. It's a (largely) avoidable circumstance, and it's usually a choice, but it's still a circumstance. And the fact that women are capable of becoming pregnant isn't enough to declare them "unequal." But that hasn't kept people from using it as such for hundreds of...

Is not an issue of definition, but of context. You could say that a pregnant woman's likelihood of succeeding at an aviation career is unequal to that of a man's, and you'd be absolutely correct, but that's not the same thing as saying that the woman is unequal to the man. You're saying that...

I didn't default to any meaning. I provided all five of them, and for all five, women don't qualify as unequal to men any more than one man qualifies as unequal to another. Yes, women can have babies and men can't have babies; some men can father babies, and other men can't father babies...

Also from Webster: 1 a: not of the same measurement, quantity, or number as another b: not like or not the same as another in degree, worth, or status 2: not uniform : variable, uneven 3 a: badly balanced or matched <an unequal contest> b: contracted between unequals <unequal marriages>...

I had to jump into this, just for a second, because I could hear Brett thinking at me really loudly. Let's not conflate "different" with "unequal." Women are different from men, dogs are different from cats, men are different from other men - having differences does not make one inherently...

Well, it'll make college easier, so you've got that going for you.

Sigh. If a woman chooses to exploit herself sexually to get ahead in society, it's not her fault but the fault of the patriarchal society that makes women's sexuality an exploitable commodity. Would it be nice, from a feminist perspective, if she chose to make her living in some way that...

Are you kidding? Who wouldn't want to insure the man who can't be killed?

His head makes a sound like a coconut when it hits the ground.

I think it completely depends on the couple. If they both want to have kids, and she wants to stay home with them, and he's comfortable being the sole breadwinner, and they're both comfortable living in the lifestyle that a single salary can accommodate, they should go for it. If they both...

If you're marrying someone who wants to spend three months' worth of your money on your wedding, wouldn't that indicate that maybe you've made the wrong choice of bride? And here's a bit of insight that'll probably get my Woman Card revoked. A woman gets a big, expensive, foofy wedding for one...

Changing clothes is not actually that hard to do; they may even have a special room for it at the church. For the ceremony, go with whatever will photograph best, 'cause even if you're not going to look at those pictures again, know that she is, and it matters to her. For the reception, go...

Cod?