i actually dont have state farm insurance bc Aaron Rodgers is on their commercials.

LOL!! Love your nice comments- thanks buddies :)

We are wiling rats in an Internet lab: we sign up, sign in - allow ourselves to be tracked, our reading lists and call lists and interests all categorized and collected, BY WHO and WHY? Does anyone care? We should be worried.

Don't get naked anyone!!!

Can I just say- you make me laugh every week- you sicko- I love it. My roomate in columns......

Actually, the DNT makes awesome fish wrap.

It's the end of the country as we know it, and I don't feel fine. Keep telling them Amy!

It's the end of the country as we know it, and I don't feel fine. Keep telling them Amy!

Thank you Amy for the article . I did NOT know about this new law and find it very disturbing .

What real freedoms are left in this "free" country. Not innocent until proven guilty. Guessing white middle-class males are not going to be the ones routinely stripped search. At least not yet. We are frogs in water that is about to boil! Do you care? No---you are watching TV at this moment. Reality TV, nonetheless. In big 'ol comfy stretch pants.

I'd hire ya. Course I don't like my job much anyway.

Dear Amy,
Count your blessings. My daughter just turned 38 - and she's still in grad school! I remember sneaking into here room, too.

Here, in no particular order, are my twenty suggestions along with two book lists. These ideas are not original, and I'm the first to admit I lucked out with my daughter who's had a hard time of it in spite of what looks to most of us like a successful young adulthood.

1. Take her to the BWCA.
2. Take time off from work and/or let her take time off from school.
3. Encourage/support the arts - local arts especially.
4. Find a good summer camp.
5. Read with her (see book list below).
6. Think about a year off between high school and college.
7. Attend Quaker Meeting.
8. Adopt a pet and/or volunteer at an animal shelter.
9. Cook at home with her.
10. Find a fund raising project to do together. Long hike, bike ride, etc.
11. Start/join a kids book group (see book list below).
12. Choose movies carefully & for sure avoid "R" films. Watch indies.
13. Teach her about older music - folk, traditional, pop, film themes.
14. Make sure poetry plays a role somewhere somehow.
15. Teach her (or have someone teach her) outdoor skills.
16. Make sure she has a camera.
17. Take walks together.
18. Take an active role at her school.
19. Play board games and catch with her.
20. Study strong women in history.

Ten Modern Works of Fiction
The Island - Gary Paulsen
Jemmy - Jon Hasseler
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
Holes - Louis Sachar
The House of Dies Drear - Virginia Hamilton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Soul Surfer - Bethany Hamilton

Ten Classics
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery
Minn of the Mississippi - Holling C. Holling
Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

Keep writing!

Lost the list formatting. Sorry. Hope you can separate titles from authors here.

Iran doesn't NEED to take the bait, dammit! All that needs to happen is to have that ship sink, or worse, to have even ONE of those reactors damaged in just the WRONG way and she'll have to be abandoned and sunk! Sink THAT ship, and aside from all the oil/grease and other chemicals she'll dump there, there are FIVE nuclear reactors there, all hot as Hell! They are, it seems, TRYING to destroy the ecosphere. Don't they realize there is no warranty, that we can't replace it or repair it once it's damaged beyond recovery??

I think you should take a look at supreme court decision on
heller v washington dc.-its say's that the police are not obligated to protect and serve. And talking trash about people, who said or decreed that
your view was the only one, that should be RIGHT!!!!!

Where's the punchline? I've looked all over the site but don't see the word "Satire" anywhere. You should work for The Onion.

Really, it comes to this? Frightening thing is some people actually believe this is true or wish it were true.

"This is the ENTERPRISE. We set a different standard here."

You really have no idea of what this ship can still do. There's a reason why it's still in use after 51 years, even if decommissioning is scheduled. It's predecessor, the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE of World War II, is the most successful ship in naval history, still to this day.

The current ship's major flaw is because it was designed in the late 1950s it has not been able to take engineering economies which have been designed into the current generation of carriers, and is therefore more expensive to operate. Otherwise, she could continue to serve for another generation of sailors.

She has the proudest name in the Navy, and I'll shed a tear when she makes her last port call.

It will all work out. She is a good girl. Love ya all!

you don't know what an LP is. it plays @ 33 1/3 rpm. 78s are hard, thick and have one song per side. they break, chip and scratch very easily. they ruin "normal" needles. there are 33 1/3 EPs that are the size of 45s. also there are 16 1/2s (rather obscure, heavy and huge) if players still are available.