basically, yes.

For some reason my group of dudefriends in college were obsessed with the name Beth. Whenever we'd play video games with a female avatar, she was inevitably named Beth (the best instance of which was in Rock Band, where the lead singer Beth, was a skinny goth chick and front woman for "Behold the Pallor" which is also…

i like beth more than liz/lizzy!

Was.. this paid for by the British Royal Family?

Paul…Barf? I disagree.

Ha! My sister is a Beth and is almost literally a saint. We just proved the beautiful/busted Ashley theorem! Both our sample sizes were just too small.

and in conclusion: Mark Shrayber Jezabels sexy beefcake national treasure.

I'll sit with you in the "old people who neither hate Beyoncé nor find her worth this much reverence" corner. She's very good at what she does, but it's not a thing that interests me.

I don't hate Beyonce — she's really good at what she does — but I do think it's a bad idea to be too reverent about anyone. And I think the VMAs have gone from being an antidote to an awards show that takes itself too seriously, to becoming that awards show that takes itself too seriously.

A corporate event for corporate created music.

right? Shouldn't it be the vevo video music awards now?

[W]hy hold back on the name of the man responsible for all of this unrest? Stories of death threats while police are arresting people like French for "not listening" and reporters like the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery for having a camera in a McDonald's or firing tear gas into people's neighborhoods is not reason…

Anonymous is also threatening to release the shooter's photo later today.

If you're going to arrest someone for a bullshit reason, at least make sure your protocol is perfect. Jeez.

True, dogs can't talk. I love them all the more for that.

Interesting all the people who are bothered by furbaby, furkids, or referring to the relationship between pet and person using words like parent, mom, dad, child, etc.

You might want to rethink that phrasing.

No, but hey, neither will my freeloading human relative who was coddled as a child. At least my dog isn't offensive.

Damn trolls. If I could just show you a pic of my adorable dog Olive you would say, "OMG Eyebrow, of course she is your child!!" Eh, maybe not. But I'd be down for seeing the Kiddie/Doggie Hunger Games, if that becomes a thing.

I think it was unfortunate the mayor chose to make it about kids versus dogs. I understand the impulse to do so, because "Think of the children!" tends to be used as a conversation-ender fairly frequently in debates, and as a society we haven't done a good job of framing the issue in terms of the competing needs of…