@VisforVanity: At the expense of sounding really pretentious (I don't mean to, honestly!), I haven't listened to the radio in years. But I heart Christina. Thank you!

@VisforVanity: Oh man, I've never heard that song before! Opening a Youtube tab right now. Awesome.

@VisforVanity: Totally agree. I always thought Christina was a strong, empowered role model, and Britney... not. I'm not well-versed on the timelines, but come on. "You gotta rub me the right way" vs. "I'm a slave for you"?

@kathykathykathy: Ha! My old place, three of my roommates and I found all of Degrassi: NG streaming. I don't think we did anything for the next week but smoke and watch season after season.

@kathykathykathy: Oh my god I am nostalgia-ing so hard right now.

@thebutton19: If she was, quote, "balled up in a corner, shivering," they probably would have said, "She was clearly just imitating what she imagined a victim would do. Real rape victims don't act like that." Fuckers.

@Thus Spake Kate is effulgent.: I'm with you. She seems like a badass. Although, I don't know who she is either, so either we're both out of the loop, or her quote should have been more like, "Fuck all of you, I'm fairly well-known!"

@KW03: Ugh. And ten years tops if the force isn't "aggravated." As if rape itself isn't violent enough to merit more than a ten-year sentence.

@waverly: X is shit. I grew up listening to the Beatles, how dare you compare X to them.

Legal Jezzies: in court, could the statement she was coerced to sign turn out to be a good thing? "Though I didn't agree or consent to it (it) was not rape." I tried to find SC's exact definition of rape and couldn't, but most law dictionaries basically said if consent is not freely given, it is rape. Because the…

@through the rye: Give it a week for "Update 2: The Smoking Gun has interviewed the author again, who says he has sold ten thousand copies, following media reports on Gawker Media websites and Fox News." Sigh.

@doubledeemayhem: "History's gonna remember me as the dude who discovered the biggest balls ever. Yeeeah."

I like the researcher's sly grin and raised eyebrow. "Yeeeah, take a look at those balls."

@LoveBugBecky: ...and do drugs.

@la.donna.pietra: My first thought after reading the article was, "Yeah, drinking and doing drugs are exclusively social activities." My second thought was, "Well... drinking and doing drugs were only exclusively social activities when I was a teenager..." Your theory makes sense, and I support it!

BREAKING NEWS: Teenagers who communicate often within a large social circle are more likely to engage in behavior commonly associated with teenage social circles. Could your child be taking part in traditional coming-of age activities? Stay tuned for more on this horrifying moral panic sweeping the nation.

@bananafishtoday:

Someone made a Walking Dead/Love Actually vert comic a little earlier. I just made one too (thanks for the inspiration!). In the reply.

@RaisinGirl.OfficeGirl is late to the debate: Canal Street around Centre/Broadway has toooons of cheapo jewelery stalls. You can generally talk the vendors down 20-40% too if you barter. Have fun!

@pissiechrissie: The book is nothing short of genius imo. I wasn't bored, I was just overwhelmed at times. Like he'll spend pages and pages deconstructing the psychological ramifications of, say, the fictional (IJ having been published in '92) invention of video calling, or the game of tennis, or AA, or the effects…