...but it just got off from a blogging standpoint that it was just going to get attacked and that set a precedence for the whole thing.

Winter is coming.

ETA: Double post!

"I like big butts." "And I cannot lie!" Diddy & Pinocchio: they're cops! Tuesdays this fall on TNT, 9/8 Central.

"Age. A young 25.
Profession. TV News Journalist."

The 1980s, when a 25 year-old could have a real job instead of an unpaid internship.

ETA: Just realized how old this article is. It is doubtful anyone will see this comment. : (

Privacy, apparently.

"...and again apologize for any offense it may have caused."

I think you do raise some interesting questions in your first paragraph, some questions which are worth thinking about and discussing (re: your comment about your Asian friend using/appropriating "ratchet": I was initially utterly taken aback when I first moved to New York and heard high school-aged Puerto Rican and…

"It doesn't matter that I'm so full of shit," Van Zant said. "I certainly think that the debate and discussion involving the 'facts' that I literally just made up ought to be heard."

There, I fixed it.

Tracy K Smith won last year, and while she is still in a rather academic vein, she seems like a riskier choice.

Though I would have loved to see Heather Christle win.

So what we've learned here is that certain middle-school students (let's call them "nerds") are more likely to study harder, less likely to date or party, and will eventually become more successful than their peers. Groundbreaking stuff.

This is just like how Nick Fury showed The Avengers Agent Coulson's collectible Captain America cards covered in fake blood in order to motivate them, in the film The Avengers.

How have I never heard of this dish!? Is it a regional thing?

I'd much rather be offended by someone asking questions at a party than bored by someone talking about herself.

I'm beginning to think that Twitter was a huge mistake.

While the language being written is not itself French, the penmanship clearly indicates that the writer is French - most likely a Parisian born between 1970 and 1982 and enrolled in a Foreign Language night class.

Eventually, yes.

Try again!

"Would sending CIA operatives like the days of the cold war make it any different?

All this talk of directors is fine and dandy, but how do I get a role in the film?