His state's high court approved gay marriage, overturning an anti-marriage/union amendment passed by his state's voters (by a 62-38 margin) in '08.

"That's why we have punctuation, it breaks up the stream of text into discrete items that can be appraised and understood on their own. "

Any discussion of grammar is going to tend toward pedantry, by definition.

Not until Princess Masako gets rescued first!

Somewhere in Monaco, Prince Albert is laughing his ass off...

I doubt anyone says it in such blunt terms, but the more nuanced version would go: "What percentage of black UK cover models should we expect, given a UK black population of 3% (up from under 2% in early 2000s) and around 7-9 covers per year available to models?"

What's the "correct" rate for black models getting the cover of UK Vogue, given a UK population that's 2-3% black?

"Ya got the veins/ya got the balls/bam it's a dick"

Rule #1 of etymology: the acronym-based explanation is pretty much always BS.

Pretty sure you got most of those stars for being so non-specific, actually.

Don't forget Independence Center in Kansas City, the Navy Pier in Chicago, and Wolfchase Galleria in Memphis — all hosted large-scale "youth" brawls and were partially/fully closed down as well. That makes seven (including Pittsburgh).

Thanks for the lifestyle advice. Happy shivering in the cold, buddy.

Cool, thanks. Yeah, that explanation works... especially if #FSUTwitter works longer holiday hours than the actual press corps, as seems to be the case.

I'm confused — did they "dump" the info quietly on Xmas Eve, seeking a tiny audience? Or did they "blast" the info out everywhere in an attempt to embarrass the reporter and mess up her story?

Your original comment was that "venues were cancelled on them." Not the case, as you seem to concede (by omission). If they opted to cancel some planned venues in '06, on their next tour, due to poor advance sales... well, that's a quite different matter. They also added a number of dates in areas where they'd…

Memory is a funny thing.

That picture at the top is so good.

Life is complicated for athletes too. But I'm not willing to argue that Michael Jordan should be considered as great a figure as Muhammad Ali.

"Uncle Ben"?

Who were the last artists who actually took a major political or industry hit for a protest song? It sure wasn't CSNY.