I really wish this had included an acknowledgment that one of the media outlets which initially heavily pushed the story and implied that she might be lying was GAWKER. Seriously. Some of the Gawker coverage (especially initially, before all of the stuff about Breitbart and the right-wing Twitter users who pushed the…

Me too! I just was paging through it recently after downloading it from Project Gutenburg. There's a passage with Marilla explaining she didn't want a French orphan because the French are basically all sneaky thieves/criminals. Anne of Avonlea I think has some similar passages of this kind of casual anti-French…

In picture books, "The Paper Bag Princess" is a great read for girls. I also love George Saunders' "The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp" (the illustrations are a knock out). For older independent readers, lots of Roald Dahl books are good (especially for kids with darker senses of humor). China Mieville's "Un Lun…

One caveat about Anne of Green Gables (which I was addicted to as a kid)...I was paging back through it recently, and there's some pretty disturbing anti-French racism...most kids will probably gloss right over it (I know I did). But it may need some explaining to a kid.

Ever seen the movie "Deranged"? The interior of that spooky-ass house and the mannequin sort of reminded me of it...

Yup...he plays a Criss Angel-style "illusionist."

The man worked for Nixon. He has always been a tool.

I remember protesting the Bush inauguration way back when. Cold and rainy day in DC made a thousand times worse by the fact that where we were was stationed close to the emcee—Ben Stein— who kept making jokes like, "How many college girls does it take to screw in a lightbulb." (I never heard the punchline, since I and…

Goddamn right I'm crying. In a cafe too. Sheesh. I never learn not to read stuff like this while working in cafes. Shame on you for making me read it.

Apparently, Rick Santorum tipped off Ensign that Hampton was going public so that Ensign could get out the story first...making this whole thing even tawdrier and more gross. (But of course, you know that will be the case with anything once Santorum gets involved.)

Well, except apparently the main dude leading the charge on this stuff predicted the end once before...and when it didn't come he claimed it was because he hadn't taken some biblical book into account. So now he says he's 1000 percent sure.

It's pretty frightening...NPR profiled all these people a few days ago, including a young couple with small kids, elderly people, etc., talking about how they've quit jobs, given away all their savings, spent their retirement, because they think the rapture's coming May 21. They won't even entertain the possibility it…

The tail one is straight out of Geek Love, but really, any of these could be...

Um, no thanks. Not "everyone" want to "bone" them.

I don't know...there was no certainly no mention of it in the Dirt Bags themselves. And the comments were overwhelmingly of the "Oooh, I want to have sexytimes with him because that is just the sweetest thing" variety. It's just really pushed my buttons.

Wow...second day in a row that Prince Harry gets love from Jezebel. I know you're being snarky and all, but look, he's not "respectable." This is the guy who dressed up as a Nazi for a party and referred to people using the slurs "Paki" and "raghead." Gushing about how great this spoiled racist is for giving a couple…

I guess I'd say that it's 1) the entitlement that comes with thinking your wealth and power is a god-given birthright and 2) the fact that the chief source of the British royal family's wealth and power over the last two centuries was a brutal colonialism built on the bodies primarily of South Asian and African…

It's a pretty well-known slur in the UK, although I wouldn't expect Americans to necessarily know it. The BNP and National Front types use it frequently in racist attacks against the Pakistani and South Asian community in the UK (sometimes they refer to such attacks as "Paki-bashing.")

I understand what you're saying but I disagree. I've lived in England as well. "Paki" and "raghead" were both well-known racist terms when I was there in the 90s, and I seriously doubt that's changed one bit (hence, the fact that it made big headlines when the video surfaced of him using the terms while he was at…

Prince Harry can give out all the toys he wants...dude still thought it was fun to dress up in a Nazi uniform and refer to his friends as "Paki" and "raghead" as a "joke."