So I can still buy cigarettes at places that sell fresh produce and decent wine, but I can't buy them at places that sell Twinkies and 40 oz bottles of malt liquor.

But do they still sell alcohol?

He's not on trial. In fact, this will never go to trial, because the statute of limitations is expired.

Didn't Jezebel just have an article about Kristin Bell and Dax Sheppard calling for a boycott of publications that run pictures of celebrity kids? This boy just lost his father, let's not put his picture all over the internet.

Can we please, please, PLEASE stop SNARKING about Macklemore being white and straight? Can we though? It's fucking old, and every time you do it, you airbrush out the beautiful, talented LESBIAN who is part of Same Love, without whom we would not have that amazing hook.

Is that Anthony Edwards sitting behind her in the crowd? TALK TO ME GOOSE

Since when do we gloat at someone's pain? Or mock their family? Seriously, that's pretty low.

I love me some Wendy. She came to my hometown and was SO kind. Atleast she had her education reform points listed on her site since September unlike Abbott.

Oh, I want to add a pic of me and Wendy. This is from the Dec. 14th opening of her Ft. Worth field office. I was in town for my sister's graduation. She graduated with a degree in political science from Texas Women's the day before. Meeting her and being there with my sister was like a dream come true.

Oh, I hear you. I loved zumba when I went with my mates, but then I moved and the closest class was near the uni. It was FULL of French speaking ballerinas and lithe, coordinated twenty year olds. Far less fun.

I would normally believe that, except that these are two artsy like 19 year olds. If they're anything like say, your average sophomore musical theatre majors at any college, this is actually remarkably restrained in terms of theatrics. If they weren't famouses, I'd expect the next move would be an angry, self-written…

So you'd rather solve problems by sticking your head in the sand then? If you just get rid of Texas, then you don't have to think about the women who live here, people who are sometimes too poor to leave and/or want to live closer to their families in Mexico. Or any of the women who live and work here, who try to…

I always stop for lemonade stand kids. That virtuous part of me wants to encourage young entrepreneurs. I never drink the lemonade, though. I'm not THAT crazy.

It is a vanishingly small minority of the Texas population that wants secession, but go ahead and feel smug about latching on to the extremists and using it to feed your preconceptions of a huge state with a lot of liberal cities.

Both kinds of lights are cop-outs. These are the options in order of preference:

1. Candles
2. Directly set fire to the tip of each branch
3. You are a communist

I'll take the A-Train up and help you.