for those asking about personal finance programs - try mint.com - we use it and love it. it's very easy and makes lots of great-looking charts, and lets you compare to other people in your city or...

city slicker chic - "masculine" and "minimal" - very interesting.

gorman - coriander and cilantro are two different parts of the same plant, aren't they?

That's an Ionic capital.

I was also a student at Smith while he was constructing. Everyone was collecting sticks for him - it was amazing!

austinjohn, you mean for perfectly proportioned people, and no one's perfect :) we're all normal .

We keep a roll for kitty messes, and used to use them for bacon but now we use brown paper for bacon. Still paper, but we usually have a bag or two around from Trader Joe's or the liquor store.

If it's wild parsley or parsnip, be VERY careful - some people (I'm one) have severe skin allergies to those two. I get a seriously itchy and painful poison ivy-type rash that spreads like wildfir...

do you guys know that restive does NOT mean restful or relaxing?

I agree - if she's in grad school, you should let her do it herself. If it's your money, she's not going to feel comfortable picking stuff out that SHE likes - so her place isn't going to be her o...

a.meyer, I must have forgotten that when talking about Hillary Clinton, one must always use her first name and point out that she's female. (and maybe that was the reason for bringing her in to a ...

These diagrams are great! But I'm a little confused about the "Hilary {which is misspelled, if you're referring to Clinton} (woman)" and "Kate (woman)" thing. Was there a point to putting that in...

"A farmer can use the term if the closest look his herd has had at an actual fresh blade of grass if from an overcrowded feed lot, where they're eating hay supplemented with a cocktail of grains, c...

They have a woman in a "French maid" outfit on their flyer. That's enough reason for me not to hire them.

Donating it, because I think that it's absolutely absurd that the economic stimulus package was approved along with cuts in SCHIP and that they money would have been much better used to provide tha...

And I don't like the image of the generic nuclear family.

a pickletini? recipe, please!

hummus, a whole wheat pita, some salami, half an avocado, and some cottage cheese on rye crackers. yes, it was "throw all the random stuff left in the fridge onto a plate" day.

On Saturday at IKEA I saw a woman reply "no thank you" when asked if she wanted to purchase a plastic bag to put her items in (their current practice), then, as she walked away from the cash regist...

Atlanta! please please! Look at all those votes! (Maryland is NOT in the south!)