Some parts on old firearms, including sight beads on shotguns and handles on revolvers, were made of ivory; the inter-state ban on ivory sales took away much of those weapons' resale value. "This is another attempt by this anti-gun Administration to ban firearms based on cosmetics and would render many…

More broken marriages, more business for The Knot. I see their long-term plan here.

I've been following the whole thing and I still think she's in the right. And I'm pretty familiar with Daniels and his complete disdain for black women. So far having heard both sides, it sounds like she stood up for herself and he got tight about it.

Igloo: also he can actually rap.

The thing about Joan Rivers was that she was vicious, but she was also self-deprecating. She never made herself into a higher being who was above the people she made fun of. She made it clear that she herself was far from perfect. That doesn't excuse some of the things she said, but it does give her a subtle…

CAN'T WE JUDGE PEOPLE ON INNER BEAUTY, DAMMIT? BECAUSE MY INSIDES ARE GORGEOUS!

Speaking personally, I even LIKED Joan Rivers as a comedian but often couldn't watch this kind of commentary because it treaded far too close to the line of mean for my tastes, but I knew so long as Rivers was around, it likely wouldn't cross the line of TOOOOOO mean. As soon as she passed, I figured the show would…

We all know who really carries the show now. His thinly-veiled dislike of Guiliana fuels my soul:

the other photos actually looked 'worse' than this one.

I knew it and called it and got my head ripped off by a bunch of commenters here. ! It looks like it was "sharpened" a bunch of times in a 1998 Windows version of Picasa.

Interesting. A friend of a friend who works in advertising said the same was true of the Beyonce photos that we released around the same time. He swore they were "detouched" - that he had worked a shoot with Beyonce before and that she really and truly is nearly flawless in person. He thinks the mild blemishes were…

• Cara Delevingne is "secretly dating" St. Vincent/Annie Clark. [The Mirror]

That's true. Kate Winslet somehow pulled it off for The Reader, which basically just existed to get Kate Winslet an Oscar.

I liked it because there were parts that were funny and helped people "get" philosophy instead of being afraid of it. Hoffman and Tomlin had the best lines, Watts and Law were just boring.

it would have been way too heavy.

The people who returned the dress and called TMZ were shocked to find out that the pearls were fake and think it's a way to expose Hollywood's bullshit. Um, did anyone think that was a dress covered in real freshwater pearls? It sure didn't look like one. The person who stole the dress is a decent thief but otherwise…

I completely agree. I think she's very talented but it's beginning to really not work for me that she's constantly playing completely inappropriate roles. I fear. It could really fuck with her career

Thank you for bolding this. The man has been an unrepentant pedophile/rapist/"sex tourist" for YEARS and it really cannot be said enough, in a world where "Rock and Roll Part I" is still a stadium anthem.

I loved I heart Huckabees when I was a young dumb pretentious kid. At that time it was either that movie or you go around telling everyone you totally GOT Donnie Darko and you loved it before anyone else saw it.

Washington and Paltrow are both Spence alumns, better known as the school from