I love that musical! Mine came from the journalism standard of writing articles in an "inverted pyramid".

MEEEE! I have been talking about this/excited about this for way too long.

I had pink and purple legos when I was a kid. I think mine built a castle or a house, but they worked with the regular bricks also and got all mixed together. I mentioned the pink legos to my mom recently and she indignantly said "you ASKED for those! You had tons of standard legos!" Which was true, and I loved those,…

Thanks for this.

Well, actually, if you go back to the original commenter, she said "Angie doesn't want us to care about Afghanistan. Angie wants us to care about her." As if it's an either or proposition, and I tried to argue that Jolie clearly does want us to care about (in this case Bosnia) as evidenced by the content of her film,…

Have you seen in the Land of Blood and Honey? When you saw it, which points did you think were about Angelina Jolie?

As for Jolie 'letting people' interview refugees - yeah, good plan. Mario Lopez isn't interviewing survivors from Bosnian conflicts because Angelina Jolie is just hogging the spotlight.

I disagree. Have you seen in the Land of Blood and Honey? There was no Jolie in it AT ALL. I f she really wanted more attention, she wouldn't have made the movie in Bosian with actors that were not known at all here, and often not known in Bosnia either. I thought that the movie was clearly aimed at getting people to…

I am clearly way overtired. I read "band of raging homophobes" twice before I realized it did not say "band of raging homophones" and that realization came only after I tried to figure out how Oprah, J.C. Penny and Ellen could all be pronounced to sound like the same word. Bed time!

I think you need to just go and watch The Freedom Diaries or something, to remind yourself that there are also really awesome inspiring teachers who just make the world better.

In the LA Times article it says "and some of those who were photographed with tape over their mouths are believed to have applied the tape themselves. " So, I wonder if those kids put the tape on to prevent getting anything put in their mouths, or if that was one of the choices, like "open your mouth or put tape on…

This is so wonderful!

I was at a rich camp where the little kids did a shortened version of Once on This Island. They were also all white, but they didn't do the accents and actually successfully made it about class (it helped that they didn't sing "The Sad Tale of the Beaux Hommes")

To be fair, it appears that Kerry had recently been hit in the face with a hockey stick, or puck, or something ice hockey related. [abcnews.go.com]

I did. It drove me nuts, and made me wonder if they did the lighting/white balance incorrectly, because Boehner looked less orange than normal and Obama looked more orange than normal.

I really think it's that these kind of crimes are so sensational so the media covers the snot out of them. According the the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, cases like this are really rare.

No. It's actually not a somewhat common thing, at least not in the United States. Here's a quote from a Slate article about it:

My favorite part about that link is that it appears Malia dressed up as the Morton's Salt "when it rains it pours" girl

I am hearting you for this!

Well, different hoarding manifests itself different ways, but yes. (Some of the other rooms do look like hoarding) But I do hate how people (including, but not limited to the person who made these miniatures, and the Jez headline writer) use "hoarding" as interchangeable with "messy" or "likes stuff". Hoarding is a…