Could it have to do with allowing gay couples hospital visitation and next-of-kin authority? That's all I can come up with. Like, they feel that they should be allowed to express their intolerance and disapproval and refuse to acknowledge patients' same-sex partners, but if the hospital/law won't let them discriminate…

Adam Baldwin from Firefly and Chuck is also uber-conservative. He wrote an article for Andrew Breitbart's site about how Sesame Street is leftist propaganda and because the Muppets sing that everyone is special and diversity is good they're promoting "divisive multiculturalism" that's undermining the unity of our…

Yeah, this is my feeling. Especially since they're basically doing the origin story for all these characters over and over again, which makes it doubly lazy IMO - all origin-story movies are about the same and a good two-thirds of the plot is filled with establishing origin-story stuff. I'd be more impressed if…

They had to wear them while they were in captivity, to keep them warm (apparently the oil messed with their feathers' ability to waterproof and insulate them) and to prevent them from licking the oil off their feathers and poisoning themselves. Once they were able to clean the penguins and get them all re-waterproofed…

Seconding the recommendation for Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy, which starts with A Great and Terrible Beauty. It's set in 1895 but manages to use the antiquated setting to illuminate feminist, class and race issues that are still completely relevant in the present. Also, I think the plot - schoolgirls gain a sense…

I WANT ONE SO BAD. I WANT TO FROLIC AMONG THEM. God help me if I ever had Michael Jackson levels of money I would build myself a penguin zoo. That's probably why the universe has thus far decided not to bestow that kind of money upon me. It's all for the best. Be free little penguins!

Yeah, Robert Pattinson slams Twilight all the time, and everyone thinks it's hilarious and awesome. And I agree, don't get me wrong, but no one calls him an ungrateful brat for saying unflattering but true things about a project he agreed to be a part of. And he's definitely not the first actor to mock one of his own…

I agree. Jessica Alba has said that she really works to keep the body she has and is vigilant about her weight and eating because most of her family is heavy - frankly I think she has some weight issues from James Cameron, the dick, making her lose weight for Dark Angel and telling to world that she wasn't this…

She actually told Access Hollywood that it wasn't kidnapping because "it would be impossible for me to kidnap what already belongs to me." Yikes.

I figured that was their reasoning, but couldn't an adult man just go buy it and give it to an underaged girl himself, if he was trying to cover up sexual abuse? (And on the flip side, if an abused girl wants Plan B and her abuser doesn't want her to have it, she can't get it.) Plus a lot of underage abuse victims are…

I am so with you on 2. I know someone who worked with Alec Baldwin on set about ten years ago and they said that he repeatedly threw violent temper tantrums (as in, punching walls and overturning tables) over minor things and once screamed obscenities at a young female production assistant until she cried. I can't…

That is awesome. That's such a perfect kid-misunderstanding.

This is my favorite campaign-shenanigans analogy so far.

I...do not know what that is, but between the whole giant fluffiness of it all and the mere existence of the word 'catbus' I'm considering joining you in your worship.

His lack of eyebrows is pretty disturbing.

Still waiting to hear why fetuses, as people, have a right to use others' bodily resources in a way that no other children or adults, as people, are legally entitled to do.

"However, if a woman does have an abortion, she does not deserve better than death. Don't punish our compassionate, life-revering nurses for punishing women who have had abortions. It's only because they care so deeply about every human life, regardless of age and condition of dependency, that they simply can't…

Yeah, I've read several comment sections that have actually been flooded by pedophilia-apologists who claim that we're denying children agency and personhood by denying them the right to choose to have relationships with adults. They will just go on and on into this bizarro-world logic where they're the only people…

With that description I can't help but picture one of the Lisa Frank folders I had in fourth grade.

That's it! Thanks for the linkage. That still just blows my mind.