Ahh! My mom teaches at the private university I went to (which is how we were able to afford it, reduced tuition as part of her compensation), and they had a mom do that too! I think the girl was an athlete. I don't know if the mom lived with her, but she totally tagged along to classes. None of the classes were my…

Ideally, this would be good, but remember all the stories about charter schools skewing results and doctoring grades so that their rich students stay in the top 10 percent, or whatever. I went to a private university and it was a similar deal, tons of students got As and Bs for what was nowhere near A/B work. But they…

"People judge ME because I have tattoos, so I'm discriminated against too!"

As a former wedding videographer:

My (evangelical) father seriously had problems with the Smurfs because 1) he thought Smurfette living with all those males was perverted* and 2) he thought it promoted witchcraft, I guess because Gargamel was a wizard (right?).

I've tried to lavish my cats with things, but they mostly just want to play with empty boxes and trash. I did get a rattly stuffed fish that dangles from a fishing pole that my kitten LOVED, but then he chewed the stretchy string apart the first night he had it. Cat houses and wind-up toys and catnip-filled stuff has…

Except Oprah specifically says that she WAS dressed up "in full Oprah Winfrey gear" and wearing Donna Karan.

MENZ ARE PROFICIENT AT ALL THINGS ATHLETIC ESPECIALLY IN WATER. CAVEMEN KILLED FISH WITH THEIR BARE HANDS.

Got told the exact same thing.

See, how it works is, if you're ugly, then your opinions don't matter because ugly women are worthless. And if you're pretty, then your opinions don't matter because pretty women are stupid.

They've done this same thing with Britney Spears for ages. I've also seen several photos of Mariah Carey that are clearly from her late-nineties style era repurposed for current use.

Heh, he is referring to an incident at an Austin YMCA, where a bunch of anti-choice students from out of state had been using the Y as a place to shower (they didn't have hotel rooms I guess? Where were they sleeping?), and then the Y got complaints and said that they were being disruptive and "bringing political…

I remember when Lady Gaga first came out and had fun, danceable music and her weird clothes and videos were a sort of a spectacle and an entertaining change of pace from the generic "in the club" video. She's so try-hard and not fun now.

I...don't remember ever hearing a voice in the AHS music.

Disclaimer: I don't think this show is scary at all (see what pollyannacowgirl said below about it being just a mishmash of whatever "scary" cliches they could throw in), but I don't think Adam Levine's scenes would bother you. He is only in a few scenes in a kind of wrap-around tale. Most of the episodes take place…

It's really kind of incredible how often this phrasing pops up in cases like this.

My abusive father did the same thing. He cornered me outside of my mother's house once after I was an adult and was all, "I don't know what I ever did, my own daughter won't talk to me, waaahhh me," and when I pointed out that he beat me he said right to my face, "I never hit you," like the idea was ridiculous. After…

LOL, CNN is not having it though. The ticker: "Says pressure of kidnapping, raping & torturing girls was hard"

Also, as far as douchebag behavior: on his radio show he said the morning-after pill was "like homemade abortion," and said women who use the morning-after pill would have to be "whores." And when Mariah was pregnant he said if they had a boy, Nick would have to spend time with him "really early on" and have him do…

I saw video of a woman who gave a very emotional testimony about terminating a wanted pregnancy because they discovered her child had a severe defect that meant it would probably not survive until birth, and if it did, it had a 99% chance of dying within the first year, suffering all the while. Some Republican douche…