Last year, Taylor Swift told Rolling Stone that she's very guarded about her privacy.

In places where they have hurricanes, you'll find people named after the storm during which they were conceived. After a while without power, there's not a lot else to do.

Actually, Skimlinks recodes all links throughout Kinja to include an affiliate code, if the link points toward a company with which they have a relationship. This happens not only on the Deals blogs, but on all of the others, our personals, the user-generated communities and in comments. It's an automatic function of…

Actually, Skimlinks recodes all links throughout Kinja to include an affiliate code, if the link points toward a…

I've assumed that all KinjaDeals were paid placement or affiliate links. This is not to say that I find anything wrong with it, I've included my own affiliate codes in many of my posts and I've written posts just to include an affiliate code. I've just assumed that's the purpose of the Commerce Team.

I've assumed that all KinjaDeals were paid placement or affiliate links. This is not to say that I find anything…

Makes sense and that's a fine definition for when something gets a "sponsored tag". I was just pointing out that because this post has and will generate income from its content, in addition to the DoubleClick banners, some could argue it is a form of an ad and it is something for which the company will likely be paid.

Makes sense and that's a fine definition for when something gets a "sponsored tag". I was just pointing out that…

Define ad.

Define ad.

While I've always known she was "Marge" and she did great work on the Tracy Ullman Show that gave birth to The Simpsons, she's always going to be Rhoda's sister to me.

Gender-neutral and/or multi-person "family" locker rooms have increasingly become an option in the US over the past several years, not only at recreational facilities on college campus, but my understanding is that they can also be found at some privately-owned locations, such as water parks. Of course I'm sure there…

As I replied to a thread on the Defamer post... when Jezebel wrote about the allegations in '08, their complaint was that they weren't more prominently featured in a profile of Cosby in The Atlantic. During their conversational "Crappy Hour" back and forth, Megan asks "whatever happened with that" and Moe provided a…

Tina Fey had reported on the allegations for "Weekend Update" in 2005, four years prior to the 30 Rock episode (when they were first covered on The Today Show), so there's no question that she knew the story.

Even if they didn't go to online-only and maintained their own dealer network, a significant number of jobs would be lost. Right now I'm living in the Midwest in a town of less than 50k. All of the major car companies have a dealership in town and they're all available at another in the next big town over which is…

The problem with manufacturer-direct selling is that it eliminates local jobs, not just salespeople at the dealership, but it reduces demand on the local utility grid, printers, local advertising, charitable contributions and it'll effect the restaurants in the area who serve the salespeople and their customers lunch.

I think it shows they're twelve years old. A mother cursing would be a scandal to them.

Bill Cosby is in the history books as a television pioneer and has been a revered member of American culture for almost a half century, while Azalea released her debut album around six months ago. Even if they had her on video killing children and eating their corpses, it'd be unfortunate for her and her victims, but…

For me, it was WQDR and Led Zeppelin. Now I have six presets in the car, but mostly I'm listening to the NPR affiliate or if there's one wherever I'm living at the time, the local community radio station. At the house, where I listen more than in my car, I regularly tune to an assortment of non-profit conventional…

In the 70s and into the early 80s, the vast majority of crappy, mostly-forgotten music was on the AM dial, while Joni has always been an FM kind of gal.

She may have a point in regards to radio. In her day, there were a lot more AOR stations and live disk jockeys who would play the stuff they liked, especially in the middle of the night when everybody was pretty buzzed. Now radio is more corporate and formulated, so there's less of an opportunity for something truly…

A couple of bloggers have tried to justify their complicity by claiming that the contents were news. If Sony were a tobacco company and the emails contained schemes to cover-up negative health reports or if it was a Haliburton-like entity trying to rig bids, I might agree, but instead it's been jokes about how much…

They may not have felt emboldened enough to issue the threat, if their power hadn't been amplified by so many blogs and if no one was paying attention to the story, even if they had still issued it, few would have heard about their threat.