... unless, of course, you count those folks who ostentatiously leave home because they take the same rhetoric soooo seriously.

Love to, but I'm presently incapacitated with laughter after reading the Anna Holmes quotes in The Nation article. Maybe tomorrow?

And for those who enjoy watching white guys be really mean to each other, you can pop over to /b/ and observe about 100 death threats/hour.

The last person to be so excited about hearing the word was, of course, John Wilkes Booth.

Neat linkage, but the reality is far less clear. France, for example, has long had a very laissez-faire attitude toward toplessness and a quite negative attitude toward public breast-feeding.

Same way he got Harvard Lampoon, SNL, The Simpsons and his preceding 15 years of late-night shows, right?

Parker is in the business of selling optimism to Nike shareholders (and market analysts)... the women's-togs narrative is just a trite means to an end.

"Where does that leave Andrea Tantaros?"

Lead comment in the original article was "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking..."

If you want to feel better about society, maybe divide "a few" by 21 million? It works out to 0.0000%.

"they warped the term..."

It's been discussed in the peer-reviewed literature in some detail. You might have a look at "Televised Football Games, the Family, and Domestic Violence" (Gantz, Wang 2006).

Great headline. Who wrote it? Carolina Herrera? Henry Kissinger? The lunch crowd at Le Cirque?

OK, I read 'em all. And I'm probably not the only one who saw "unreasonable physical standards unrelated to the job..." in the HP/Observer articles, and expected a lot more sympathetic anecdote than the Voice's one about the "unfireable probie" who couldn't get a 1.5-mile run in 12 minutes, in six tries.

Shhhh.... you'll spoil the ritual catharsis.

"she was playing against Roddick and won...I totally believe it"

"it was always about his attitude or demeanor..."

"Not sure how this email disproves Kesha's allegations..."

That said, her feisty maid in "Down and Out" is maybe the greatest one ever... smoking moodily, eyeing her Sandinista posters, and waiting for the revolution to reach Beverly Hills. Awesome work.

"There's not much to say about this video that's not already written in the description."