I know all these athletes train in a bubble. (Michael Phelps still seems to be mastering the basics of human communication...) but the Chinese take it to EXTREMES. I mean, yes, Gabby Douglas had to move across the country and stay with a host family to reach the Olympics, but I'm sure she still talked to her mom…

Too bad they don't have golf in the Olympics. Dear Leader would have killed with his beginner's luck of 38 points over 18 holes.

Why does China insist on doing this to their athletes? Can't they see that Americas can be fantastic Olympians and still enjoy being huge doofuses who do bong hits? If this sort of extreme isolation was really an advantage, wouldn't they beat everyone in every category?

Wait... Pogue considered well-tended apartment complexes with shiny minivans and sedan-style cars a "really bad neighborhood?" Does this cat ever leave Manhattan?

Don't dispute the point. But still. It's hard enough to get work; why make it harder?

Yes but unfortunately a lot of teachers do not dress the part. Maybe unforms would make sense for SOME schools. Specifically the rougher ones where the kids react better to a more structured environment.

Yes, well if you had read my original comment, you would have seen that I suggested that uniforms might not be a bad idea but that they should NOT looks like McDonald's uniforms. I know some teachers who dress in T-shirts and jeans everyday. Or worse, hoodies. I don't know how this is supposed to encourage respect.…

See also this commercial, in which a gross parody of an overgrown man-child leeches from his parents, plays videos in the basement and eat KFC bites.

Does anyone else get pissed off ever time they see this add? The whole message of which seems to be how much Boomers rock and their children suck cause they sit in front of their computers all day? Oh, yes, great Boomers, you're SOOO much better than your children. We'll keep on smugly pitching our cars to you and…

I dunno... uniforms don't seem like that bad an idea if the kids also need to wear them. As long as they're professional — I don't think polo shirts with name tags would engender much respective, for example.

Excellent point. Unfortunately, our public libraries are falling into the same trap as public transportation. If the only people who use it are those who don't have any other options (teenagers, the elderly, the poor and homeless, etc.), the quality starts to breaking down until you can't attract anyone with enough…

I seriously doubt he's really that much more productive. Emailing questions to sources saves a massive amount of time compared to in-person or phone interviews. The results might be better journalism but nowadays I'm really not sure that's top priority for most editors, especially ones at publications covering…

I dunno... The sitting dude is pretty fit.

Or, you know, maybe a household that lets a 12 year old watch a bunch of R-rated sex comedies is slightly less structured or affluent or lacking in supportive emotional and educational resources than one where they're not exposed as early.

Yikes, and didn't Christine Chenowith just experience a seizure after a head injury on set? Directors need to stop asking actresses to do such dangerous stunts or studios need to stop demanding they be so damn thin they're probably half starved and lightheaded.

Maybe I had just never heard of any famous people when I first started reading People, but I'm quite sure they used to at least feature some normals in second half of the magazine. Of course these were old bathroom copies from when I was a youngster, so we may be talking about quite a while ago.

Sort of like how People slowly pushed everything about everyday, normal people (albeit who often did incredible things or survived great odds) further and further towards the back of the magazine until it became completely about the meticulously managed, airbrushed and surgically altered celebrities who allegedly…

Good gravy, those are some insanely white — and large — underpants. I once read that Justin Timberlake never wore the same pair more than once — because he is filthy rich and presumably obsessed by germs and dirt. I wonder if this is a common pop star affectation?

Please tell me the second to last photo is Davey and Goliath before they cut the Mephistophelian cat and flamboyantly gay uncle from the cast.

Sorry, I didnt make it through anything else after that second item... Alec Baldwin has a podcast???