Precisely.

Can we call this the "No Shit, Sherlock" survey? I worked as a corporate attorney for the past year and hated it - the demanding clients, the mundane work, the expectation that you would stay at the office to all hours of the evening, as if what you were doing (i.e., making corporate clients a lot of money) was a…

Yeah, but it's exactly the kind of photo the Repubs can point to with their bullshit line, "See? Liberal bias in the media" - as in, Newsweek chose the least flattering photo of Bachmann because of some perceived liberal bias. I cannot stand her and everything she (and others like her - i.e., Palin) represent, but I…

I'm willing to guess that most Americans don't know (or remember) what the Transcontinental Railroad is, unfortunately.

I get that she's a nut, but I didn't think it was well done of Newsweek to use this particular photo.

Huh. I wasn't aware that people in ancient Greece wore chain mail and went on crusades. Or that they spoke in plummy British accents. The more you know...

Grandma Chenoweth sounds like a very wise lady.

I cringed when I saw this - it was just so orchestrated and such a blatant scheme to make money off what, to my mind, should be a private and intimate moment. The wedding too, obviously. I wonder if Kardashian will ever look back on it and regret allowing the whole thing to be such a public spectacle. Also, did anyone…

Exactly. It's just incredibly affected and ridiculous, especially when you consider that she's from Detroit. I lived in the UK for a bit too, and while I picked up a few slang terms in my everyday speech (which faded from my vocabulary after I moved back to the States), I never attempted any kind of accent. She's just…

I dunno, some people like the tradition. What I find problematic is the "permission" bit - as if a woman was her father's (in this case, stepfather's) chattel. I'm almost 30 and my boyfriend is going to ask my parents for their blessing. I guess the difference with us is that he's not asking for permission and he's…

Hearted for making me laugh out loud.

She seems to keep things pretty low-profile in her private life, so it wouldn't surprise me if she quietly broke things off with him.

I like some of her old music, but she is seriously one of my least favorite celebrities. She's unbelievably pretentious and full of herself.

Is Madonna still hawking that affected pseudo-British accent? She really needs to just give it up already.

"Lunk" is the perfect word to describe him. Something tells me that Kardashian cares more about his ability to help her stay relevant in her quest for fame and to provide her with pretty things than she does about him as a person. I just don't seem them staying married for long.

It is until he does it on the hood of a vehicle out in broad daylight - then it becomes a public act. I don't really care how he gets his rocks off, but you have to admit that, even if he wasn't on duty, his judgment is incredibly impaired.

Hearted for the reference.

If he was on duty, then yes, he should be fired - he can have sex all he wants on his own time.

Yes, but by that time there will probably be some other vapid, insipid, no-talent "celebrity" saturating the media. Sigh.

Madonna is, in a word, insufferable. From mimicking a full-blown British accent to flouting the laws of Malawi in adopting her child (and in attempting to adopt a second child), to insisting on acting/directing when she simply doesn't have the talent for it...well, she just annoys the shit out of me. I liked her so…