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Every Saturday, Markos posts some of the infinitely entertaing hate mail Daily Kos receives, and one of today's batch jumped right out at me:

Trust me when I say this, only a few arrogant egotistical bookworms buy the dribble you produce. The problem we face today, sit squarely in the laps of the dems.. But, please keep on showing your bigot reporting and interpertation skills, its great entertainment.

Oh noes, the readers, they'll doom us all!

It truly does astonish me, the fear that the love of reading instills in some people. It's almost as if those folks know their placement of commas, their lack of usage of apostrophes, and their refusal to match tenses are wrong, and so they are forestalling the pointing out of such. "I, sir, am an American," you can almost hear the perfect embodiment of those folks declaring, "and have no need for such homosexual fripperies as proper grammar or the self-reflection that reading encourages."

This one was a close second, though:

I find [a Daily Kos diarist who shall remain nameless] many comments full of vulgar wording such as the frequent use of the four-letter word beginning with a F. There are women reading these comments, and we are ladies, and we find his use of the word so often, offensive.

Is this a spoof from Ladies Against Women? Alas, it appears to be genuine. If being a "lady" means engaging in self-censorship and the limiting one's language, then fuck that goddamn shit. O, who will protect the ladies from indelicate vocabulary? It's hard to believe females like this still exist in the 21st century...

It's true:

Shopping sprees linked to periods

Women may be able to blame impulse buys and extravagant shopping on their time of the month, research suggests.

In the 10 days before their periods began women were more likely to go on a spending spree, a study found.

Psychologists believe shopping could be a way for premenstrual women to deal with the negative emotions created by their hormonal changes.

So font of wisdom Bristol Palin tells CNN.

*wipes tears*

At least she goes on to say "but it's not realistic at all.

Everyone should be abstinent. The mind boggles. Truly, it boggles.

Spotted in, sighed over, and then raged over in today's New York Times:

The economic crisis came home to 27-year-old Megan Petrus early last year when her boyfriend of eight months, a derivatives trader for a major bank, proved to be more concerned about helping a laid-off colleague than comforting Ms. Petrus after her father had a heart attack.

For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded.

Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began to make sense when the man she married on Nov. 1, a 28-year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion. "One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35," Ms. Davis said. "It's not what I signed up for."

Not what she signed up for. I guess that whole "for richer or for poorer" stuff was left out of her wedding ceremony.