In my experience, it's other way around. I'm a lesbian, and my mother accepts me, but I used to have a flyer on my wall advertising a conference paper I presented on a transgender activist. My mother looked at the flyer once and, perturbed, asked me if I was trans; I'm not, but she seemed upset at the prospect. Then…

Nah, Sisters of Loretto all the way. Tiny order, badass attitude.

Oh hell, I went to a high school run by an order of sisters so liberal supposedly they helped burn draft cards during Vietnam.

Well-said, Michiru!

Gravitron1066 is thinking about y'all.

Good point!

Are you kidding me? Roger is the love of Joanie's life.

Crafty and ... funky.

Yes, and we should enjoy NASA while we can before Newt Gingrich takes it away.

That will quickly evolve into guilty circle-jerking and donkey-punching ...

Ah, lest we forget.

Just checking!

Gawker regular and Deadspin lurker here. Is that the type of racist bullshit I can expect from now on? I just want some dong shots.

I'm pretty sure that commercial is in Grease during the drive-in scene when Danny tries to get handsy with Sandy. Oh, the metaphors.

Oh, he definitely is.

This amuses me more than it should.

Did someone say kerfluffle? I'm in.

Things that happened in 2011: my (I thought) long-term girlfriend broke up with me; I didn't get to move to Portland, OR because of said breakup; that storm in Joplin? I was driving on I-70 in Missouri in that same storm system and had to seek shelter for a few hours in a McDonald's bathroom on the side of the road; I…

Uh, isn't "beauté" a noun in French? So that's two nouns next to each other?

Demi's new BF (?) looks like alternate reality Eric McCormack.