Yes! It's a fairly common expression in East Texas/Louisiana —"bo" or "buh" (I was miss-hearing as "bub" for the longest time). I heard this expression nonstop growing up, from everyone, everywhere. Any place you walked into would address you as "bo"/"buh." I think the regional accent warps into "boo," which it…

I wish there were a word to describe food that's non-industrial, small-batch, and generally made with care and attention by a human person, but without the twee, vomitous affectation that artisanal has. Because I am, by and large, a fan of a****anal food. Lots of it is good and interesting and worth putting in your…

It's in the bit where he's only willing to travel with a young woman, and also in the bit where he's requiring pictures with bids and understands that ones of himself are expected in return.

Nah, it has to go deeper than that. He posted this ad knowing it would get attention, hoping it would get to the ex that other women would apparently love to be in her place.

Because he holds out delusional hope that he'll get a week's worth of sex with an attractive young woman in return for chipping in for some portion of her vacation.

"Boo" is a regional thing. From "beau" and folks in the deep South, especially near Creole areas, have been using "boo" for generations. My ancient white grandparents used it all the time, too. It seems as though it's been lassoed into something else now, which kind of sucks (but doesn't suck as much as the…

A waiter at Pizza Hut once said, in my father's hearing, that we "should go back to India." (We're of Egyptian background.) I was very young at the time so I don't really remember it, but pretty sure that guy's ass got canned. Too bad the same thing didn't happen to the sucky coworkers.

If Robin William's $100 million dollars didn't make a difference, money doesn't make a difference.

So we're not discussing Christopher Meloni's shirt? OK.

Hydroquinone has this reputation as dangerous and a "known carcinogen" which is basically bullshit. It's carcinogenic in rats that were fed or injected with it in large doses, and has not been shown to have mutagenic (DNA-changing) effects in humans. It works as a melanin inhibitor, so it will lighten the skin you put…

I work in the beauty industry and used to be a beauty editor. I have tried everything under the sun, work with chemists on a daily basis, been to skincare labs and interviewed dozens of derms. The single best thing you can do for your skin is to stay out of the sun. Full stop. Then, keep skin hydrated—use a…

I worked for a derm who hated other derms that touted all this bull. Drug and beauty reps feared this man because if it wasn't legit or wasn't made with proven ingredients, he chewed you out in front of his staff and patients! Every single time someone asked what they should be washing their face with, he said Dove…

What's funny about Arbonne is the that they say they don't release their ingredient list because it's proprietary. Um, you can claim ownership over ingredients found in nature???

I can't say I'm even remotely surprised. One of my coworkers is currently hawking that Arbonne nonsense, and she keeps mom-scolding me for not using "all-natural" makeup. Normally, I wouldn't give a shit (a lot of my expensive-ish products are Too Faced or Urban Decay or BareMinerals, which are often vegan or…

My eyes rolled so hard that one of them is actually hurting now.

Kara Walker is amazing — her work is violent, sexual (in an icky way), and uncomfortable. It should be, its about how horrible humans can be to one another. She would be the absolute last person to be surprised by people interacting with her art in a gross way. From what I know about her, she doesn't buy into the…

The thing is, it's his attitude and words that make him ugly. If he was a kind man who gave away toys to orphans at Christmas and didn't make horrible statements about women based on their looks I wouldn't find him ugly at all. I might not want to sex him up right then and there but I wouldn't be repulsed. He and Rush…

No idea. Maybe Kevin Jonas' toothbrush is a euphemism for something? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But I think her main point is "Everybody look at me."

What I always find so bizarre about the reaction to these types of things is the implication that his comments would somehow be more acceptable if the guy were more attractive. Like good-looking people are permitted to judge others by their apperance but ugly people need to keep their mouths shut.