It might be worth learning to cross-stitch just so I could do this...

I wanted to disapprove, too. But, knowing nothing about this story and seeing the footage for the first time (Canadian), all I could think when I saw her leap over the seats was, "My God, this is *beautiful*!"...and timed so perfectly with the chorus...

That Wrecking Ball gif is both awesome and hideous. Well done.

Sounds like this one is going to be like "Twilight": A lot more fun when you're drunk. And yeah, there's only one way that I'd know that...

It's not *quite* the same thing, but...

This is the best news blooper ever. Watch his co-anchor's face. I keep this one book-marked for when I need a laugh...

That FOX anchor who pushes the two guys off him and says "Please don't do that", like it's no big thing, is pretty bad-ass...

I don't have a child with autism, but I've worked with teens with autism and their families for quite some time. I hope it's okay to give some feedback.

Yup, the Robertsons got exactly what I'm sure they set out to get out in the first place with this: a ton of publicity, and a happy ending for them should any pushback come from it. Nothing this family does is by accident.

I second that. Yowza.

This is very nice. He's got a great voice...

My family has been playing this album at Christmas for as long as I can remember. :)

I'd let Ian Somerhalder just about anywhere...yowza...

Yes. We're very tricksy. *evil laugh*

Yeah, she kind of reminds me of that "Stuart" character from MAD TV, jumping around yelling "Look what I can do! Look what I can do!"

Phil's comment that they're not rednecks, just goodoleboys pretty much confirms my suspicions about this whole thing: The redneck thing is a bit of a schtick that works well for the show, so they milk it. I doubt that much, if anything, around how this family markets itself is done by accident, this latest "faux pas"…

Holy hell...is there anything that Tom Hiddleston can't do?? *fans self*

I get the idea of person-first being a tactical choice. It was only after a great deal of consideration that I decided to move away from it, because it's still so prominently used within agencies and within disability culture itself...and because it does provide that bit of a separation of "me" from "walking…

Thanks for the link to Autistic Hoya's blog. It was a place that I started when I needed to understand the part of the autism community that's rejecting people-first language ("person with autism") in favour of the more-direct "autistic", and she actually significantly changed how I view and write about disability and…