I found this funny, in a tragedy + time + it didn't happen to me = comedy sort of way: my father did some genealogy to get to the bottom of that stubborn family rumor that we had a Cherokee ancestor; turns out, it was just my Scots-Irish ancestors making that claim after settling in lands the Cherokee had recently…

Ironically, the Rock is native Hawaiian, if memory serves.

Don't worry: I would never confuse a state, island, or any geographic entity for the avatar of anything. Avatars are people; specifically, people who are the embodiment or incarnation of something abstract. Alex, I wonder if you meant to caution against considering Hawaii to be the epitome or apotheosis of racial…

This wins the internet for the week! Witty, brief, irreverent, and literary. It has everything I could ask for!

They were also judges in the melon and gourd growing competitions.

Eh, they signed up for it.

It's so quaint that you (1) bring up the long-defunct Sears catalog, and (2) think boys don't use it as masturbation fodder. Girl, I've known men who would jerk off to the pencil-sketch pictures of women in bras in the newspaper.

"On the other hand, we can keep it to ourselves. We don't need to run broadcast our internal decision over the Internet."

She's also over 60, isn't she? Bruce Jenner was looking pretty plastic-surgery'd (or wax-statue-like) in the last decade or so.

Caitlyn is like Madyson, Allyson, Olyvia, etc.: the name of a girl born in 2000 or later. Maybe that makes it a really appropriate choice?

In fairness, I saw a comment in a recent Savage Love in which the commenter basically said that if you don't want to have sex with a trans person, you're a bigot, just like if you don't want to have sex with someone of a different race, you're a bigot. And here I thought that whoever we wanted to have sex with was a…

"I'm confident in my ass-ment!" — sassy best friend

I can't wait until a pharma company finally has enough balls to show a gay couple on a bone-pill ad.

This is all brilliant. If they're seriously going to reboot the Muppet Show, they should do it as a parody of morning news shows! Hell, Kermit already has demonstrated his journalistic chops on Sesame Street and in the Great Muppet Caper.

Paul Simon? Next he's going to take credit for suggesting the bow ties.

We know it's fake news, because Bryant Williams has never been to Chicago.

If it's Cheers Frasier, I'm all for it!

What's going on with Katt Williams? Maybe they can both stay disappeared together.

Wait, Bumblebee used to be a Volkswagon, and now is a Camaro? I can't tell if this is a metaphor about gender reassignment or immigration and citizenship.

The bounced-check one is my favorite, followed by the Hennessey ad one.