Mark, this is a wonderful essay, and I'm glad someone wrote it. I especially appreciate your last paragraph. My sister died from her addictions a few months ago, and while I'm glad to see the increased conversation about addiction and relapse (though could really do without some of the harsh and judgmental comments…

Anyone watch 30 Rock? Remember the episode when Jenna is trying to have a nervous breakdown? She does all of the weird stuff that celebrities sometimes do when they're loosing it, like flashing her bush, driving drunk, or jumping through a plate-glass window on the today show. I feel like that is what Farrah is…

All the other bullshit aside, as a company their actions do sometimes seem dedicated to education and equality. I also say this because the neighborhood they chose to roll out Google fiber was my neighborhood in Kansas City. Unfortunately I moved juuuuuuust before it was going into homes. But they gave fiber to all…

You go Google.

Nothing in those pictures of Olivia Wilde looks particularly "hipster" unless hipster now means wearing a hoody and striped tank tops (that's probably what it means now, isn't it?)

Perhaps I'm being naive, but I really thought the close up black and white shot took Mindy from her commonly perceived "cuteness" (ugh I hate that term for not-runway-model women) and catapulted her into smoking hotness. WHERE SHE BELONGS.

Considering when she was younger, Gaga wrote some of Britney's songs, this isn't all that weird.

Really, their response to catching flack for only having white people on the show is having a Hispanic bachelor? They do realize that Hispanic people are white too, right?

Off topic: That lip color looks good on her.

I was raging at my husband (who was watching the bachelor by himself, after I told him a little preview of this scene). The way he was getting in her face, invalidating her emotions ("can you stop crying for me?") — there were some yellow flags there.

He also seemed to think telling her, "Stop crying. I want you to stop crying" was sufficient to make her feel better after he basically called her a strumpet. Her reaction that she didn't want to "disrespect" his preschool daughter was really bizarre too. And it was really abrupt the way he kissed the mom to shut…

*ahem* Jason Mesnick dumped Melissa for Molly, not Deanna. I'm now going to go throw myself in Lake Michigan for knowing that.

While I'm not saying it's what happened here— accidental manipulation/creation of memories of child sex abuse was a massive problem in the 80s that resulted in quite a few people going to prison for long periods of time for things that in light of more modern examinations of evidence seem outlandish on their face—…

"I'm a male white comedian, and obviously I succeeded only because I'm super duper funny. I have to believe that if others do not succeed it's only because they are not funny, because otherwise it means I have to think less of myself and my ego feels hurt. To me, the possibility of changing and engaging in creating…

I know she isn't on the front fold, but the composition of the whole cover, with her in the middle in that long, gold column just brings the eye straight to Lupita. It is like it she is a queen and the rest are her court.

Charting new territories in contouring! You've captured her, body and soul. But does she even know how to do the contouring herself?

Like a nemesis to ms. skeeter?

Why not both? I can totally picture like a complete badass wizard lady reporter, kind of a Lois Lane meets Hermione Granger. I'd read the crap out of that!

I was disappointed that the film version of Goblet of Fire didn't include Rita Skeeter getting her comeuppance. Seriously one of the best parts of the book.

Based on what exactly? Your gut feeling?