When is it ever useful to judge politicians by what they say? Much more important to judge what they do: whether they support or restrict women's access to healthcare, to protection from rape, to equal wages, etc. Republicans don't have to call women bitches, they just treat them that way.

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Waddayawant, it's censored!

You didn't think the fire just came out of his fingers, did you?

Heavens, that lady in Maryland bumbled for 5 days with a boxcutter but still couldn't extract the fetus from her unintended surrogate? It'd have been a simple matter to Google for the phrase "impromptu c-section".

@kookla: It's karma... busma? for this:

What a horrible thing to say... about whores. :-D

@DearJamie: Scroll down this page for an explanation:

@kookla: I didn't think of it that way. I gave up on American Idol a few years back because of how safe it was. Lambert's attempt to shock so far hasn't come off as particularly natural or well thought out yet, but then that is true of many shocking artists when they first started out. It is a welcome departure from…

OhNoTheyDidnt turned up more pics from that same runway walk that were likely combined to form franken-Demi. It's pretty damning:

Oh for the love of fuck, Adam Lambert graduated from American Idol, the most Middle American, middlebrow and just plain middling of TV shows. If he managed to do that whole thing without giving into the urge to give Ryan Seacrest a wedgie or punch Simon Cowell, he can obviously be counted on to behave on TV.

@alula: I meant dismiss as in outright Holocaust denial, or something that portrays the Holocaust as less tragic than it was. In the case of this photo shoot, it doesn't seem to be about the Holocaust at all beyond the intent of its backdrop. And context and original intent sometimes matters to me, too. Just not as…

@alula: That reminds me a bit of sampling in music. Or really, any art that references other art, often without regard to the intent of the original art. E.g. Sean Kingston sampling "Stand by Me" on his song "Beautiful Girls", or in a more relevant example, the final scene of Star Wars referencing Leni Reifenstahl's…

@fridaphile: Life is Beautiful attracted its fair share of detractors, too. I'm not comparing those two in artistic merit or emotional impact, though. Although the latter may be relevant. While the shoot doesn't seem to be humorous, it doesn't seem particularly sad either. The fact that the participants doesn't seem…

@snugbug: Stomping on other people's property without their permission is vandalism. However, people posing and taking pictures on my relatives' graves would not bother me.

If you look at the memorial itself, it is an art installation and it is beautifully designed. This begs the question: is it inherently wrong to make beauty out of an atrocity?

Yo Gloriana I'm happy for you, but...

A quibble with the above write-up

There's Kim Yu Na of South Korea, the woman who's a good bet to win the Olympic gold. She's skating to a medley of James Bond music for her short program. #horses

@rhymenoceros: She had a higher score in the long program than Kim Yu Na, but Yu Na still won by over 13 points (thanks to a huge lead in the short program), just to be clear.