They shouldn't have had sex.

Ah, yes. Those people who think we live in a world in which spouses never die, leave or lose their jobs.

It's a tempest in a teapot. It's clear what Rosen meant was about economic struggles and it's a valid point.

Also, there's a world of difference between someone who takes on as much as he or she wants to and someone who takes on as much as he or she needs to.

Here is Olivia skating with the Minnesota Roller Girls:

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Woot Olivia! And fie on the bullshit, all the inevitable bullshit, that's going to be tossed around this election. Ugh.

I have work to do before bed and I don't want to do it! Wah. What I want to do is play on Pottermore. It's finally out of beta and I'm finally on it, and I don't even get a chance to play.

Anyone hear from ita? I haven't seen her around.

Burrell, have you gotten to the Sorting Hat in Pottermore? I finally broke down and signed up. I have told myself that now that I've been Sorted (Slytherin!), I am not going to spend a lot of time playing. Let's see if I can keep to that.

Not to mention of course that Romney gave a speech in January where he said that women with kids on welfare should work - gives them pride or some horseshit.

In that context, how would he characterize his wife?

I finally broke down and signed up.

Same here! The Sorting Hat gave me two options to choose from at the end - Slytherin and Hufflepuff. That's an odd combo.

It is comforting that it's so easy to counter Christian conservatives with Jesus.

I honestly believe that a lot of the bullshit we're seeing from those 'Christian' conservatives is what the second commandment really meant about talking the lord's name in vain.

I think the "conservative" Christians need to sit down and watch Godspell!

Seriously, I am not Christian, and I have worked on Godspell twice, and now I have serious guilt if I refuse to give money to people at the bus stop who ask me. I almost always give unless I seriously do not have cash with me (which actually happens a lot). I am not rich at all, but even giving $1 every time someone asks, it is not more than $10 a month.

Once again, Ginger sums up what I've been trying to say. Granted, I've been saying it in 120-character bursts on Twitter.

Not to mention of course that Romney gave a speech in January where he said that women with kids on welfare should work - gives them pride or some horseshit.

"the dignity of work", I believe was the hard-working Mr. Romney's phrase.

Sorting Hat put me in Ravenclaw. I knew that. Put my BFF in Hufflepuff. We knew that. She was sad that she is such a Hufflepuff. She said, "Hufflepuffs are always the sidekicks!" I said, "You're no sidekick! You're the one has survived no less than three incidents that totally should have killed you, and you walked away without even an injury like Wolverine. You are clearly the hero!" It's true, too.