My son's public elementary school doesn't allow Wikipedia to be used as a source. My friend teaches at a private high school, and he tries to teach his students to think critically about all of their sources, so he doesn't out-right ban it. But if kids are using it for more than a jumping-off point, they aren't going…

I don't doubt YOUR commitment to Sparkle Motion!

Hooray for secondary attributions!

I'm still laughing about it years after he first showed it to me. Poopies.

It's more likely that she saw the charges, reported them to the credit-card company before she realized it was her grandson who had made them, and now the credit-card company is pressing charges. Their fraud divisions are notoriously unforgiving.

Once I read on Wikipedia that Hugh Laurie's sisters' names were "Taco and Burrito". A friend regularly distributes to his students a screen-cap of a Wikipedia entry that describes Alexander the Great as making "large and in-charge poopies." He uses it to illustrate why he will not give an A to a paper that uses…

Sexy Neville Longbottom makes me feel like a dirty old lady.

Eh, maybe she just likes parties. I say, buy her a $10 receiving blanket, eat ten dollars worth of tiny sandwiches, and socialize.

My kitten actually tries to do this if I yawn too close to his face. He will stick his whole head in my mouth.

I did have a guy give me a critique when he was down there recently, but it was just to say, "I'm glad you don't shave." I said, "Lucky for you then." Then he spent some quality time appreciating my vagina to the delight of both of us. Anyone else who has had an opinion never expressed it.

I first heard of it about 10 years ago, but at the time I thought it was a satire on how obsessed our culture had gotten with teeth whitening.

Lenny Kravitz is a vampire.

Twenty years after the fact, most wedding pictures look ridiculously dated. In my wedding pictures, the groom had a perm and a soul patch, while I wore a skirt suit with gold buttons and giant round glasses. We both had shoulder pads. Seriously, that is no more ridiculous than some joyous cosplay.

That is a really good point, since they were more likely to seek sex after than before.

She laughs like a dolphin. I mean, I guess you can't choose your laugh, but you also don't have to make it the soundtrack to sexiness.

Yes. For instance, if I had to have my appendix out, even if I would die within hours without the surgery, I would have to pay for it if I didn't have insurance.

Do I need to feel guilty when I stand in line to eat a Voodoo Doughnut?

He is doing homage right!

Here is a link to an article which explains in depth the history of blackface. It's more than a consensual hallucination of racism. It has its roots in racism. Even when intended as an homage, it is indistinguishable from racism. And if your friend is so uncreative that he needs blackface so that his cosplay is…

The holidays in my family are (in order of importance): Thanksgiving, Halloween, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Christmas, and Valentines Day. My family didn't celebrate Christmas when I was growing up (we weren't Christians), so it doesn't have any real meaning to me except as that day when the grocery stores…