I agree, but after a few minutes of perusing her "work", somehow I think the damage was done long before her marriage.

What exactly does Courtney Stodden do? If she's that young she can't be a porn star, which would have been my first guess looking her up. Everything on IMDB seems to be "herself", and I guess she's not been around long enough for a wikipedia entry. Is getting married at sixteen really her only claim to fame?

Sure, it's her beauty, mostly because university protest culture is so eternally blah. I was rereading Murakami's Norweigian Wood the other day, and I couldn't help feeling how utterly generic the whole protest environment is, no matter what country it is in.

Hitchens actually said he respected C.S. Lewis.

No, I doubt tabloids will be replaced. No one else could do "WHITNEY HOUSTON AUTOPSY SHOCKERS" like the tabloids, thank god. [www.nationalenquirer.com]

Very enticing, in the same way a purgative entices my digestive tract...

I challenge anyone to produce an appropriate movie thong, science fiction or otherwise...

Masterpiece.

I think they should stop talking about it too... they should just go on about their business, renaming it "The Augusta National Free Range Asshole Farm". Problem solved.

"Self-Aware" requires a rational, external point of view, doesn't it? This is more like a pampered, pink-dyed Pomeranian chewing its own foot off because it doesn't like the shade of its nail polish.

This whole discussion in the last week has been a lot like the Miss Universe transgender thing. It takes us places whose mere existence should be loathed. Calling someone who embodies an unhealthy view of appearance 'ugly' is just about as hypocritical as demanding judges allow transgender people to participate in…

Oh great. Next we'll have printable robots with built-in printers. Hilarity ensues...

"they became" needs a tad more elaboration. The relatively short period of time for such drastic change seems to need for a little magical hoodoo in the mix. I wouldn't be surprised if they found a more otter like ancestor waaaaay back there somewhere, but dolphins? Really?

And the porno version of this phenomenon appears in 3... 2... 1...

How does someone with 14 kids pay for the childcare to get a job with the kind of padding for a two thousand dollar grocery bill? What would the childcare cost? Does this job in some way involve winning the lottery?

I'm going to start charity to stop the horrible oppression of Saddam Hussein. It's cool to be an activist for stuff that was over in previous decades, right?