Sorry about the delay

To all you faithful readers out there (both of you!) just wanted to say sorry that I haven't been posting as much as usual these last two weeks or so. It's been a perfect storm at my house; with my dad in town, starting a new job, and the Olympics on the tube every night I just havne't been setting aside the amount of time I need to blog regularly. However, I hope to be back up to speed within the next week or so - especially because I know I've left so many people hanging wondering about Part II of my feminism series! ;-)

In the meantime, here's a great little blurb I found as part of today's Slate Sap-O-Meter coverage of the Olympics -

In a live chat, a Slate reader writes:

Whenever a broadcaster mentioned that Dara Torres was 41, I took to responding,
"Also, Jerome Bettis is from Detroit."

Slate contributor Josh Levin responds:

Every timeany interviewer would ask Dara Torres what message she wanted to
give America, she would say: "You don't have to put an age limit on your
dreams." Thanks for the advice, Dara. Also, a Zen question: If my dream is to
put an age-limit on Dara Torres' dreams, who wins?