I'm glad your Marine friend found a female grunt acceptable, and I don't think women should have to be Anna Kournikova to enlist. But seriously, I have known female veterans from all branches of the service and they tended to be slender, fit, attractive, and perfectly happy to break you in half if necessary.

You need a new movie. I recommend "Design for Living" (1933): Gary Cooper, Frederic March and the underappreciated Miriam Hopkins as the love triangle that just refuses to be resolved.

When he got the "Criminal Minds" gig, I really hoped it was his Robert Downey Jr. moment. Sigh.

Nicholas Brendon's trajectory, post-Buffy, makes me very sad. I hope he makes progress in fighting his disease.

Oh, yes, let us please hear the legal, First Amendment-compliant argument for offering marriage to religious people but not to non-religious people. This should be good.

But hideous in a summer palette, or more like autumn?

I seriously love that print. I wonder what the colors were.

My god yes! I want that hat and coat!

People are still talking about him in California. Sad that authorities don't even have a good ID for him or know who his family was.

Whereas I come from a family of hillbillies, but have never lived in the South myself!

Oh, that is absolutely where my family picked it up! If you didn't like Tennessee Ernie Ford, you had to be worthless. Maybe even shiftless.

My uncle used "pea-pickin'" exclusively for the fellows my aunt worked with, outside of their hearing.

You're right. I guess that's what makes it so definitively an insult when applied to an adult.

I'm trying to remember if I've ever heard "bless your LITTLE heart" in a sincere context. As far as I can recall, if the LITTLE gets stuck in there, you know the referent is a fucking idiot.

American, family is from south-ish, definitely heard it as a kid. Haven't heard it in years, though.

Between this and those folks in Idaho who want the right to leave their kids' potentially fatal illnesses untreated, I am beginning to worry that "Unwind" may have been prophecy rather than satire.

Thank you for giving me an excuse to re-watch 2:26 of vintage Lady Soul alive and burning. No embedding, sadly.

You are over-simplifying the feminist perspectives toward depictions of sex in popular culture. Even feminists you would describe as "pro-sex" don't find every depiction of sexuality to be empowering for women; even feminists you would describe as anti-sex would be more accurately described as…

My daughter's middle school had some epic rock bands and one year they had a girl win some pipes. They fucking OWNED "The Ocean." Physical Graffiti was never my favorite Zeppelin, but they convinced me.

Valhalla, I am coming.