Oddly enough, I had a dream last night that I met Lana Del Rey and she gave me an autograph that I didn't really want because I don't really know her music. And I had no idea why she of all people showed up in my dream.

Last I checked, abortion clinic workers are not like those salon promoters on the street who coax you into buying a $200 package deal you don't need.

So amazing. There's something particularly entertaining about unexpected Carillon performances. I loved the "Bad Romance" performance at Iowa State, too.

As ever, Why Won't God Heal Amputees?

I'm sorry, but fuck religious tolerance if it results in the completely preventable deaths of human beings, especially children who don't have the ability to choose for themselves.

I loved her books when I was younger! Even though a lot of them were written in the 60s and 70s, they aged very well.

Though it would be kind of funny if we could find ways to use every religion as a verb: "Wow, that car dealer really Daoisted me out of my money. He told me that I should not actively seek out a good deal on the car, and instead discover it through non-action."

A good old fashioned "Jew down" is a term used to describe a square dance ritual among the Lubavitchers. The tradition began one special Shabbos in march of 1957 and continues to this day. A group womenfolk were dancing in the foyer of a local chabad house (partitions up ladies) when the reb. challenged a newly…

So a regular marathon wasn't difficult enough, so these people had to go invent an "ultramarathon"? Okay, this sounds like it's going to be a dangerous trend.

That's an interesting point. It's also conceivable she wrote it more how it is meant to sound than the correct transcription by either system for the benefit of the majority of her readers who wouldn't be familiar with those systems. I know they deviate from the obvious pronunciation in some ways in order to…

Most British Chinese people are Cantonese because of Hong Kong. So maybe why.

Generally, you are right. But my husband and his sister both had only 2-part names (and this was in Korea before they came to America and were given an "english" first name). And I have a couple friends in Korea who have 4-part names.

Thank you for this video! We just sat down and watched the whole thing on YouTube. Fry and Hitchens absolutely decimate the people arguing for the motion (a bishop and a conservative MP). It was actually kind of embarrassing how unevenly matched they were. The bishop seemed to be operating from the view that, "I am a…

Huh. According to the OED, the phrase "master bedroom" doesn't enter the English language until the 1920s — well after it could have meant "slaveowner's bedroom" in any practical sense. The OED also informs me that this usage derives from the sense of the word as "Applied in extended use to things, with the sense…

Well, from here on out, I'll be mistressbating.

That was outstanding. I love Stephen Fry with every fibre of my being. Do we think it would be excessively rude of me to send that video to my lovely, but blindly faithful Catholic dad (who I know for a fact endorses contraception wholeheartedly btw!)?

At any point does she just yell "THE ARISTOCRATS"?

Video taken of the explosion.

Think of it this way: you share a set of grandparents with your first cousins; you share a set of great-grandparents with your second cousins; you share a set of great-great-grandparents with your third cousins and so on. "Once removed" indicates that you don't share any grandparents and you are one generation…

I've been watching Arrested Development again. Appropriate!