My cousin's mother-in-law wore black to my cousin's wedding. It was definitely a political, not a fashion statement. Their relationship has only gone downhill from there.

I'm pretty sure that a gay-anti-abortion-Asian-lady-minimum-wage-barista eventually turns into a phoenix and flies away in a shower of ash. #Republicanscience

I read this as "Noted half-man Angus T. Jones has grown a beard, is going around talking TO Jesus," which would have been an entirely different sort of blind item, I suppose.

Ahem, the "abortion-is-wrong-barista" is actually an "abortion-is-wrong-Asian-lady-barista." She hits the minority-lady-parts-minimum-wage trifecta!

Okay, so "Dancing With The Stars" is really "Dancing With People You've Occasionally Seen On TV." Apparently "'Celebrity' Apprentice" has an even more flexible definition of "celebrity."

I told my husband that there was a White Man's March tomorrow, if he was interested. He looked confused for a moment and then said, "Oh, isn't that St. Patrick's Day?" And now I am DYING.

I've always appreciated that in Ye Olde Englande, streets where ladies of a certain persuasion might roam were sometimes called "Gropecunte Lane," or something similar. It's an old word! I'm kind of surprised it wasn't in the OED already.

Now I'm trying that as well. It would explain a lot about certain actors....

Err, Lindsay didn't actually get Botox in her lips, did she? Wouldn't that mean she couldn't move her lips?

I can actually see Angelina vaccinating - she had a preventive mastectomy after testing positive for the BrAC1 gene, she she believes in at least SOME science.

Right, I don't hate you, I just don't want you to have the basic legal, financial, and societal protections available to every heterosexual person! Makes total sense!

There have been some interesting pieces written lately by right-wing commentators about how lots of gay marriage opponents don't actually hate gay people. This article... does not support that hypothesis.

Shailene Woodley is Kate Moss's little sister!?!?

I've never been to Graceland, but I always got the impression that it was the height of 70s, not Southern, chic. Still, I appreciate radar acknowledging Brit-Brit's 72-hour Vegas marriage as a marriage. One has to keep track of these things.

I imagine it's something along the lines of tracking women who are being abused or otherwise sexually exploited by their multiple purchases of Plan B. Because this is surely the most efficient and effective way to help those women. /sarcasm.

Can we not derail this conversation with "they're all the 1%, why should we care?" comments? I went to Harvard. My parents were the first generation of their families to go to college. My mom was a public school guidance counselor; my dad was a professor at a small liberal arts college. My family is not, by any…

This is incredibly necessary. I graduated in 2002; I can't find the article about it, but there was an incredibly ugly incident my senior year in which someone called the university police to report a "suspicious gathering" at the Radcliffe Quad, which are the old (now co-ed) Radcliffe dorms. It was a meeting of the…

Harvard actually has incredibly generous financial aid. A friend of mine from the former Soviet Union attended for approximately $1000 a year. The rest was subsidized.

"Wah, I cheated on my wife with a younger woman and now I'm being criticized for it! Can't people see that we're in LOVE*?!?"

My theory all along has been is that she ran off with the pool boy.