Me, too. She's so calm and so patient. I'm also impressed that the little girl picks up the stuff at the end, like her mother tells her to.

"I have never fucked* one of my friends," she said.

You're right, I can't claim that they're equivalent. My poorly-stated point is that if she actually had singing talent, the priority would be to showcase that. The claim that she couldn't possibly sing live and dance for 90 minutes is really a claim that she can't do the former, since if she could, they could cut back…

Ooh. I can be selective about musicals, too: The Wizard of Oz (or The Wiz), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Billy Elliot—plenty of dancing expected from the primary vocal cast.

Yeah, there's no way in hell it's possible to do what Broadway and opera performers do, or what bands/singers 20+ years ago do and did.

Yeah. The original article has a blockquote where he says:

I just googled "median wedding cost" and got this:

It's a typo. It should be "an".

Jessica Dubroff is what came to my mind as well, as well as Abby Sunderland, who had to be rescued in her attempt to become the youngest person circumnavigate the globe alone. I think chasing "youngest person to do X"-type records is always a questionable endeavor. At some point, you are going to have someone…

But, let's be honest, Pippa's sister is literally royalty and she's aunt to the cutest Prince Britain's seen since his father and uncle were kids.

They have Mother's Day in March in the UK (Father's Day is in June, though). I don't know the history of it in the UK, but I can report that it's pretty damn commercialized over here, too.

In high school, I met a guy who was a pathological liar. I remember a whole group of us were out at dinner and he regaled us with a story about how he had performed a one-man sting operation, spending two days in a toilet stall to catch someone who had put a hidden camera in the men's room (he had been in the bathroom…

I think there's also the issue that in order to get hired, a lot of place really push you to pretend that the low-level job they're offering you is the culmination of all of your hopes and dreams. It's their way of protecting their in your training. Someone who loves what they do and where they work is much less…

Indeed, though I really wish he weren't an atheist. I hate that I'm occasionally forced to agree with anything he has to say.

That struck me too. I know plenty of atheists from around the world who would balk at the idea that it's "uniquely American".

I doubt teens are any more out of control than they have ever been. The difference is, its now religiously documented for public consumption, and shared over and over again.

I assume the study itself does, but this article is just a paraphrasing of the USA Today one, and I doubt Jezebel writers have access to journals (or, given some of the garbage they have written in the past, the background to understand scientific papers).

It's definitely true that positive thinking works miracles.

You may get charged for using an ambulance, but not everyone agrees that that's how it should be.

I see what you're saying, but I think there's a difference between hating your body and thinking, "If I had a magic wand, I'd change X about my body," or feeling bad about something at a particular moment (usually because you are being made to feel bad about it).