I am all for reboots and revamping existing characters to explore underrepresented minority stories. So I think it's grand to have Alan Scott be gay in the reboot. But they changed his character for the worse in so many other ways:

I don't understand casting Finnick mainly based on looks. There's a lot more to his character in the story. Finnick starts out as smarmily, inappropriately flirtatious, then we find out the character actually has a lot of pain, devotion and anger. He has a very complicated and fucked up back story. It's not an easy…

Personally, I'm more taken with the pencil skirt. Dat pun!

This post would get just as many page views with the more accurate title, "NY Post deems some of Jeremy Lin's female fans too slutty for him".

Hey, hey, hey, who ordered this pig?

The best Oscar red carpet pose. From Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie.

For people wondering about the expenditure on this ad, how it will reach men who aren't supposed to see it, etc… It's already worked way beyond its locality. The story has gone global. People are discussing it in various corners of the internet. Its message has reached far more people than merely those who would use…

Unfortunately Christie's withholding of Planned Parenthood funding happened a while back. I doubt Jez or Gawker would want to bring it up in a whole new post now. But yes, they should mention it whenever they're talking about how regressive Chris Christie has been. Christie has been a conservative ass not just to…

This is part of my governor's ongoing delusions of presidency. Chris Christie went out of his way to cut state funding to Planned Parenthood by not only vetoing the budget, but strong-arming moderate Republican lawmakers in the state to change their votes. This puts New Jersey, which is a liberal-leaning state, to the…

Canceling the entire contest is a lovely bit of passive aggressiveness. It's an invitation for people to get mad at those GLBT activists for rocking the boat and ruining it for everyone. Cue the cries of "p.c. gone mad!"

Thanks for the info! So she probably did know what she was doing. I still don't think it's conceived to be particularly edgy given her past efforts. At least no gingers were hurt this time.

You got me there.

Why do people think this is M.I.A. trying to be edgy? She's just doing appropriate choreography to a line in her verse. She's from England, where the censorship rules are considerably different, if you've ever watched live British TV (I just saw a docu on BBC3 where various cuss words slipped through, but some other…

Not as badass as the Bad Girls video M.I.A. just released, but then, what could top Maya filing her nails on top of a skiing car (4-wheeled car driving on only 2 wheels)?

P.S. Did you notice the ginger kid at the end? I think he's one of the refugees from her "Born Free" video. Glad to see some of them made it out alive.

I love that, too. And she shows the women driving (suck it, Saudi women driving ban). Not to mention the image of her filing her nails on a skiing car may be one of the most badass things in any music video ever.

The new MIA video Bad Girls needs its own post to feature it. It shows Middle Eastern women driving and rocking it, a nice dig on the Saudi authorities.

The original article is inaccurate, or at least incomplete. After it's been reported, only 6% of rape cases result in a conviction in the UK. So really, the odds for a rapist in the UK are actually much better at .9%.

Oh my god, I didn't know they do webcasts now. Thanks for the heads up!

Don't forget that American David Hallberg joined the Bolshoi Ballet company as a premier (principal) dancer last month! It's totally unprecedented and a groundbreaking bit of cultural exchange in what used to be a very proprietary organization. It's the first time an American dancer joined the Bolshoi company…