I want to be designed so pregnant women can eat brie and sip Fernet.

Of course, you could just move to Europe...

**The one thing new here is that Orr looks to the type three secretory system (TTSS) as a possible evolutionary precursor for the bacterial flagellum. Our side has pretty well handled this objection (see Behe’s contribution to my coedited collection Debating Design with Cambridge University Press as well as my response to Ken Miller titled “Still Spinning Just Fine“). The problem with looking to the TTSS as an evolutionary precursor of the bacterial flagellum (leaving aside that the best evidence points to the TTSS “devolving” from the flagellum rather than evolving into it) is that it is so much simpler than the flagellum. Thus, in merely pointing to the TTSS as a possible evolutionary precursor, one has not offered anything like a detailed Darwinian pathway to the flagellum.

Alls I can say is, dude, the comma is your friend. Hello to the syntactic density and goodbye to the comprehensibility.

Also, what Jessica said. It is not okay to ask for an intermediate stage, and then laugh at the intermediate state example and say that it is too intermediate.

why, if I have gained no weight during my first trimester, do none of my pants fit?

Is your head shrinking? Do you still have all your fingers??

why, if I have gained no weight during my first trimester, do none of my pants fit?

Pants gnomes must be shrinking your pants at night.

Is your head shrinking? Do you still have all your fingers??

No...yes.

I suspect Gud's theory is correct. Stoopid pants gnomes.

(I also suspect that what I've gained in waistline, I've lost in muscle tone, since I've been too nauseous to go to the gym for the past couple of months. Stoopid nausea gnomes.)

Rubber bands were my friend until my 6th month.

They are occasionally still my friend on Thanksgiving.

Rubber bands were my friend until my 6th month

All of my pants have hooks instead of buttons. WHY MUST THE WORLD CONSPIRE AGAINST ME SO????

Hmmm. Lemme ponder. And google.

Timelies all!

We have a box of hand-dipped Hannukkah candles. Got them at the Jewish Arts Festival. They fit my menorah much better than the standard Manishevitz candles sold in the store.(Those won't stay in the candle holders unless they are wrapped with foil.)

Jessica - here: [link]

In conclusion: why, if I have gained no weight during my first trimester, do none of my pants fit? In what universe was that intelligently designed?

Hard belly versus soft belly. Before the fall of humankind, you'd have been nekkid, and pants wouldn't have been a problem. Pants are one of the scourges of sin.

Wait 'til your regular undies don't fit you, and your maternity undies, in addition to making you feel like you're wearing grannypants, irritate the heck out of your I-can't-believe-it's-this-stretched-out abdomen. Oh, the fun!