@Valkyrie607: Believe me, I hate the misuse of the word literal as much as you do. Here, "literal" modifies "calling." The papers are literally calling for her head, because they are literally saying her head should roll. Are they saying her head should literally roll? Perhaps not. But they are in fact, "calling for… Read more

@booboolee: Irrespective of all the rest, it seems like a no-brainer that all kids of Foreign Service employees should be entitled to the same benefits. It seems pretty antiquated to deny them the education benefit just because their mom and dad aren't married. Read more

@LutherNipperkin: I never say I'm a pescaterian, because people either get confused or make fun of me. If I'm eating at someone's house, I say that I don't eat meat but I do eat fish, and that usually works okay. Read more

@RosemaryF: This is why I stopped saying I was a vegetarian when I started eating fish. People used to serve me fish and chicken sometimes when I was a vegetarian, out of genuine confusion, and I strongly agree with keeping the terms straight as a courtesy to everyone. Read more

@EarlyGrey: I don't think monogamy has to be boring. I just think Dupre's advice, which sounds like a less interesting version of every other advice column, is boring. Read more

@marks-alot: I'm sure this tactic can work (although it's decidedly not to my taste). It's just that I've heard it and it's ilk so many times before! I was kind of hoping for more salacious advice. Read more

@DutchessOfDork: According to the article, though, La Mamounia runs around $800/night. It's pretty high end. Read more

@notwhoyouthoughtiwas: My issue is the fact that a grown man feels it's perfectly acceptable to insult someone who is just doing their job. Read more

@thenwemadeout: Fixed, sorry about that. Read more

@bluebears: I think my sentence is a little confusing, because now that I think about it I'm not sure those things can be called one "model." I'm not making an anti-union statement at all. I don't think being unionized had any negative impacts on people's families, and I didn't mean to suggest that it did. I guess… Read more

@vamvaki_poulaki: Minority Report was mostly a clean future, except for, if memory serves, one very unclean scene with eyeballs. Read more

@Titania: the number that you've left out is the actual number of extra calories ANY woman, obese or not, needs to take in to have a healthy baby—they said it was 300-400 extra calories a day. Read more

@jk-47: Persepolis is awesome and a really interesting read, but I don't personally like the art as much as the stuff in Rent Girl or Fun Home. Still, great book all around. Read more

@BlondeGoddess: I loved Look At Me, but I didn't love The Keep. The stuff about social technology felt out-of-date to me. Read more

@dcnahm: Yeah, all of those rule! Total honorable mention to all three. Read more

@mrsdalloway: I do refuse to judge other people for taking what they need to take to feel better. Read more

@GGobsessed: but you do need the help of a partner for that, and some men may be too embarrassed. Read more

@labeled: To be clear, I totally support people getting treatment for menopause symptoms or sexual dissatisfaction if they feel they need it. In a way I'm a lot more distressed by the PE drug than I am by menopause drugs, because it seems like there's this subtext about guys not being "man enough" — not a good reason… Read more

@Awestruck: The question of whether to reproduce quotes as they were originally uttered or to "clean them up" into more standard newspaper English is a fraught one, and I'm not sure the use of colloquialism is automatically a stupid decision. Read more

@funnyface: Thanks for the link! Added it. Read more