Lynndie England is hardly a paragon of the human species...but it's hardly like she was the sole participant in the torture that went on. She is easily victimized b/c of the photos she posed in, but there are SO MANY guilty others. The ugly truth is, a majority of people would have done EXACTLY the same thing,…

See, this is why they warn you not to go to Algeria.... :P

I wonder if the reason he hasn't drawn much feminist ire is b/c people are worried about looking anti-gay if they criticize him? And anyway, why didn't members of his own community take him to task beforehand? Why is misogyny only the domain of "feminists"? I thought the underprivileged were supposed to stick…

Well, I'm glad she's gained something good after the suffering she was subjected to.

It doesn't seem to me like she actually thought it was a real alien. She was just disturbed by the circumstances of the display. I had a similar reaction in a natural history museum to an exhibit w/ a giant sloth trapped in a tar pit and being menaced by some large reptile. Granted, I was about 10 at the time...but I…

Oooh, so you want help cleaning up? Maybe you should say something like, "HEY, YOU, GET OFF THE [EXPLETIVE] COUCH AND PICK UP YOUR [EXPLETIVE]. I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER. [EXPLETIVE]!"

@Jezemale*: Haha, not so much. He was pretty popular in my small-town Missouri school, and the point deduction wasn't substantial enough to /really/ hurt my grade (I still got an A or A-). In fact, the paper was supposed to be a report on the 25 greatest Americans, w/ justfications for our choices. I had 13 men and 11…

I got b's...which means I am the damsel in distress. I AM SO PERFECT. It's totally stressful!

I once had a teacher of mine (the same one who moonlighted as a Baptist youth leader and one time actually DEDUCTED points from a paper of mine b/c it contained "feminist bias.") bemoan gay marriage, talking about how if they were allowed to marry, the divorce rate would skyrocket (b/c of their promiscuous ways duh!).…

I never really understood the whole "equestrian look" thing. Maybe that's b/c I spent my childhood riding horses, and so it wasn't a novelty. In fact, it seems strange to wear the clothes out of context. Jodhpurs are about as flattering as any other legging, and while the jackets and boots are nice, to me the whole…

Oh, you had better believe this is going to be immortalized on Facebook.

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I like Laurell K. Hamilton. I can get my fix for the supernatural and the smutty, all in one book!

Etsy also stands out as being a forum for young fashion designers to display their wares, and allows them to easily reach a nation-wide audience that might otherwise be oblivious.

I'm sorry, but they all look like they're wearing pull-ups. I think "Mommy, wow! I'm a big kid now!" would translate roughly as "Maman, wow! Je suis grande maintenant!" Carine Roitfeld, take note.

Ha! I totally have that gray T-shirt he's wearing!

@Anycah: You're right about the Northern Europeans having excellent English. I've noticed that when you get further down towards the Mediterranean, the level of English declines accordingly. I was discussing this w/ a Finnish friend of mine, and she said that there is not only a scholastic, but a /societal/ effort on…

My GOD she has an amazing body!! I just can't help saying it.

I was living in England last fall when I saw the trailer for this movie. I wanted to hunker down in my chair w/ embarassment, in case anyone suddenly realized I was an American, and wanted a place to lay blame. o_O

Okay, so we're not rational when we menstruate, b/c the lady juices saturating our brains for 3 wks of every month make us crazy. But when we hit menopause, we're not rational then, either. We are moody and high-strung. We may even COMPLAIN to our husbands! They don't want to hear about gross lady problems! That is…