J Law needs to quit stealing Hillary Clinton's hairstyle.

Bette Davis. Look at that fucking collar.

I actually wonder how this affects open-bar buyouts and such.

Yep. Once you're on the Olympic team the USA will obviously pay for you to go to the Olympics, but the only money they have a chance of getting is through endorsements. Also, the IOC requires that all competitors be "amateur" athletes, so anyone who does it for a living in general is out.

Yeah, I'm actually a former fencer, not a figure skater, but the issues are the same. When I lived in France, I was astonished at how much more affordable it was to train— it was literally 1/6 the cost of what I had been paying in the USA, because it was government subsidized, and the quality of the space and…

You're thinking of China, where that is definitely true. (Maybe Russia, too.) But not all countries work like that. When I lived in France when I was in my teens, I studied my sport (full disclosure: I'm a former fencer, not a figure skater) for the princely cost of 40 euros a month. For a space that was a full-time…

Ahem.

In some areas, if the girl/woman is under 18, yes. Certain areas have parental consent laws to perform an abortion on a minor.

This is how I feel about fencing, which I did as a teenager and then had to give up as an adult because of $$$. When I think back on how much my parents spent for me to be able to do that.... well, I'm really really grateful, is what. I'd never give up havng done it, it was so wonderful while it lasted.

Cosmo/Seventeen, what is up with all the fucking ice cubes all the time? Do you have ties to Big Ice that we should know about? Full disclosure, plz.

....What was this?

IRL.

I agree, particularly in light of Vanity Fair's assertion that Soon-Yi Previn was learning and language disabled and emotionally retarded, with an inability to intuit people's motives or meaning. A predator looks for easy victims.

I, uh, have been having repetitive nightmares the past few nights that I'm preggers/actually giving birth. Then I wake up hungry (which, admittedly, is not unusual for me). I'm really scared that my subconscious is trying to tell me something.

For some reason I understood RHCP as "RHPS" instead, and got really excited that there was a Rocky Horror segment of the halftime show. Though how that would be less explicit I don't know.

Two state solution is never going to happen unless the Palestinians settle for significantly less land than they're demanding, which they won't. The borders are too warped and the populations too intermingled to draw clean lines in a two-state solution. Not to mention the fact that if Israel allows Palestinian…

I expect that she's signed to SodaStream, and would be in breach of contract if she did that.

So I finally decided to suck it up and see what all this "Lorde" business was about. And really......

I love the look on my boyfriend's face when he's surprised into laughing. He's generally sort of a serious type, so when he does laugh or smile without reserve, I can't resist it.