This article: [link] contains easily the best argument I've heard so far in favour of voting for Romney. A Romney Presidency would increase the likelihood that the GOP will lose House seats in 2014. Change we can believe in!

OHHHHH! The guy in that diabetes product ad is saying "vial and syringe," not "violent syringe"!!

I've already learned something today, so that's enough, right?

Oh! I always heard violent, too, and never questioned it. Yeah, your work is done.

Folks, Casper is asking to watch Buffy. What say you about appropriateness for a 9 year old 4th grader?

I think these kinds of decisions are very dependent on the kid and their media viewing habits. My 9 yo? No, many of the episodes she'd be too scared to enjoy and that would make me sad. But I'm pretty sure her friend Sophie (same age) would watch it happily and not be too scared, and even for Franny I could see having her watch a few episodes that aren't quite so scary or emotionally intense.

I think I'm more concerned about the teenage angst parts than scary. She could probably handle MOTW episodes, but the Angel arc seems more for 12-up, I think. I think she is kind of sheltered compared to some of her peers (who happily tell me they went to see Hunger Games last summer.)

That's what I meant about emotional intensity, flea. I'd pick and choose episodes if it were me.

That's what I was going to say, flea. The scary parts probably won't be too scary, but when you get to the Angel/Buffy stuff, that metaphor is going to be tricky to explain well to a nine-year-old.

I've let Sara watch some, but just hand-picked episodes, like Hush or Fear, Itself, with me.

What they said: I think most of Season 1 would be OK, but much of S2-7 is gonna depend on the individual kid. Me, I was reading really adult material and would have be fine at 9, but I was a mutant.

Hello, good morning, have a fun trip, sarameg!

And Liese, I think that's an awesome thing to do. Appropriate and shameful it got buried and almost no press.

I tried to get my then-17-yo niece into Buffy. She was too scared to watch more than a couple of S1 episodes! Sheesh.

Apparently some women are interested in not shaving for November. Men are displeased.

Huh. Contrary to what I was told at work, there is at least a fundraising aspect to Movember. And of course there are college douchebags who don't like the idea of women with hairy legs. What a surprise.

I thought Movember was specifically about prostate cancer, rather than men's health generally. To me that's a lot less irksome.