Bootylicious

Salon has an ode to Pirate's Booty saying the stuff is "crack for babies."

"All I know is that when I bust out the bag on the playground, I am the Man. A mere rustle of plastic, and every non-toilet trained citizen of the neighborhood comes scooting over on those barely ambulatory feet. I think, "This must be how Barney feels." "

Me, I buy it because I love hearing my 4-year-old yell out, "I've got booty!"

You tell 'em, girl.

What if Wal-Mart sold Prada?

Slate asks "What if Wal-Mart sold Manolo Blahniks in the shoe section?"

I would stop buying Manolo Blahniks, that's what would happen. When Sears bought Lands' End that was the end of my buying Lands' end.

Snobby? Absolutely! But I'll happily shop at Target. The difference? Merchandising, baby. Target's got it, knows how to use it. Wal-Mart and Sears suck eggs.

Yale's grading system

OK so I don't even care about all this blather on John Kerry's college grades, or his war record or whatever. He's not the president people! Move on!

But this caught my eye:

"Under Yale's grading system in effect at the time, grades between 90 and 100 equaled an A, 80-89 a B, 70-79 a C, 60 to 69 a D, and anything below that was a failing grade."

Isn't that everyone's grading system? How else do you translate numbers to letters? OK, I've seen some differing interpretations of where a fail starts, but pretty much 90s are A, 80s are B, etc. Right? Am I missing something here?

What size is it?

So LawyerMan has this partner retreat thing this weekend. I bought a dress for it last year, but of course, I can't wear that one again, so I had to go out and buy a new dress, and then I realized that none of the bras I had worked with that dress, so I had to go out and buy a new bra.

I've been measured for a bra three times since I stopped nursing, and gotten three different answers. That makes no sense.

However, I did find one yesterday that is perfect (and not in a size that any of the nice bra-measuring ladies gave me). It's this cool Donna Karan one that is cut low in the front, but here's the cool part -- the little piece that runs in between the cups in the front is that clear plastic stuff. So even if the dress does go too low (which it doesn't - quite) you still can't see anything. Perfection!