A&E used to stand for Arts and Entertainment.

TLC stood for The Learning Channel.

FitTV has now taken over almost all the medical shows moved from Discovery Health, which is now the Oprah channel.

IFC (Independent Film Channel) is changing over to series and now runs commercials.

And when was the last time you were able to watch a block of music videos on MTV or VH1?

These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

If you think all this information hasn't been collected by some government agency, as soon as it was available, you are living in a dream world.

I only looked at a few of the pictures before I started to tear up.

Dear Mom, Thanks for trashing all my Spider-Man comic books from my childhood. Trashing my favorite teddy bear broke my heart, but the comic books would have added greatly to my retirement. There are many reasons we don't talk. Persephone

If only teh stoopid would burn the stupid instead of us.

Strassenkindern translates literally as "street kids."

The container is lovely, but the brush is going to wear out.

Of course, this is designed for people who have servants working for slave wages, which servants are lucky to make the $575 purchase price in wages a month. This, of course, doesn't even apply to the actual slaves used by the wealthy in many other countries.

Radtke was busted for painting over a commissioned mural. He trespassed and defaced property. I can't imagine the anger of being a property owner and having some self-appointed jerk painting my wall with battleship gray paint.

Banksy may have committed similar crimes, but he actually raised the value of the property. If the owner didn't want the mural, he could paint it over. Radtke never gave the owners, remember, the OWNERS of the property a chance to decide.

I love the murals in Palo Alto, as do most of the residents. I hope Radtke never visits.
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This chart is just stupid. There are obvious mistakes, and piles of misconceptions.

A woman is a shrew because she wants her husband to change? When you get married and, especially, you have kids, you have to change. Any time a living arrangement or relationship changes, you have to change.

And Guinan is the Wise Crone? Guinan may have been several hundred years old and wise, but she certainly wasn't a crone.

Hit Girl is a cutesy badass? How about psychologically manipulated and damaged psychopath?

Okay, this is becoming a rant, so I'm going to stop.

Knee breeches, kilts, men let those legs show!

I've got free Norton from Comcast on the netbook, but Kaspersky on my desktop. Norton has been faster and better the last couple of years, but I'm still getting better results from Kaspersky. It's faster, fewer interface issues, updates better, and does not slow down the system nearly as much as Norton when updating and scanning.

FYI, getting Norton off your computer is a complete pain. It likes to rewrite parts of the registry, which you have to track down and remove before you can install different security software.

1. The doctor was completely unprofessional in his behavior. The uterus may have become medical waste, but it wasn't his toy to do with as he wished. He's got a god complex going on, which doesn't bode well for future patients.

2. A uterus means more than liposuctioned fat. It's a symbol, for many people, of being a woman. Once it's removed, a woman cannot have a child. So it has a lot of symbolic meaning.

3. If the doctor was so casual as to leave burn marks on the patient from engaging in inappropriate conduct, then he really is behaving unacceptably and abominably.

4. Some people, for religious or personal reasons, believe that the body is sacred. All parts removed should be treated with proper respect. Some religions require that all body parts removed be retained and buried with the person when they die.

There's a lot of fail involved with this doctor. Unfortunately, people tend to revere doctors, and overlook boorish, rude, unacceptable, abusive, etc. behavior that would be condemned and punished in others.

She could have had a romance and lived just as long. However, not having children probably did extend her healthy years.

As an FYI, knitting needles are allowed to be carried on planes under TSA regulations. Do not mess with us hardcore knitters.

Retrospace freaked out my computer, taking over a window that was already open, then opening window after window until I did a forced shut down.