This was straight up awesome and strange, in my opinion.

Okey dokey: wanna make them be the woman of the year, then?

Lady Gaga. I appreciated all that she did to repeal DADT, and for GLBT rights, and also the fact that her look isn't all about sexy or beautiful. Strange is good.

Yeah, I have to confess that I've always sort of hoped they'd find a way to get back together. Maybe they can be reunited when they're old....

I always felt like dudes were so excited to be in the company of a naked lady that the unshaven armpits barely registered. I haven't shaved 'em since the late 90s!

Some years ago, my husband was studying in France and mailed me a postcard of L'Origine du Monde. It arrived in an envelope marked "Nixie Unit" which apparently is the pube-policing division of the USPS. I still have the envelope and the postcard.

Ah. I see. Thank you!

What means "lifestyle scene"? It sounds like a euphemism for something (fabulous and illicit), but damned if I can tell what.

That is fucking brilliant.

Not like it's a documentary, but I think School Daze might have had some basis in real practices, and it's pretty gnarly.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of that little girl's post-Hitchens-bedtime-reading dreams.

My husband can make snide remarks about "YOUR president" all he wants: BHO pisses me off sometimes, but at the end of the day, I love the man. And his family.

I think Ikram picks out the women of the family's clothes. As she should.

Maybe he and Rick Perry could get together! That would be, um, legendarily amazing!

I love "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????" as an initial reaction to the good news.

Um, I just found out who he was a few days ago and he set my gaydar off.

Maturity is a leading cause of death.

I snicker whenever I see Daphne Merkin's byline by an article.

Bad enough that I was knitting in the room while my husband was watching it. I can't even speak Swedish, and the dialogue was distressing.

Yep.