All I could think about whilst suffering through the endless promos was Scrooged. If they had cast Mary Lou Retton as a member of the Hitler Youth, I may have watched it.

"imported from Japan." That explains it all. Now I have a mental picture of Japanese college students sniffing the phone panties.

Comedy Central trying to get some viral traction again? (If not, we're all doomed.)

Considering only 1/5 of the population of Qatar is female (a demographic skew due to the influx of foreign labor), this is about as close as many of the residents, and most hooligans, will get.

Sarah is probably still secretly driving into Canada for her health insurance.

Never trust anyone who spent more days as a beauty queen than in official capacity as Governor.*

Well, you could also argue that the Chinese-made toys that hard-working Americans are buying their children (in addition to their clothing, electronics, furniture, books, and just about anything else Walmart strong-armed out of the US) gave the country the capital to buy that US debt in the first place.

+1 just for the David Mitchell (one of my all-time crushes, but secretly happy that I don't have to keep up with that intellect) gif

Here, I'll start it:

Can we all start putting "former" in front of titles again? As much as I wish Ms Pelosi was still speaker (cause she rocks), she is now the minority whip and former speaker. It bugs me when politicians hang onto their titles as if they've been anointed for life.

So when these people are out of costume, who are they supposed to be?

Ditto. The only girlie thing about my purse is the fact that I use one, but even the style (Longchamp mini) is rather metrosexual. Contents (drumroll, please):
- Wallet (Kate Spade sample sale), containing no cash but lots of plastic options
- MetroCard (at $20, worth more than wallet)
- Notebook / Favorite Pen (for…

1) Create a separate home page for items that are designed by, but not directly produced, by sellers, call it "Etsy Marketplace" and/or give them a separate "Designed by me" tag.
2) Create a new, and prominently-placed, filter/tag that allows browsers to show only items "Handmade by me."

I love the foster kitten work Beth and Howard are doing. They've fostered (and adopted out) more than three dozen kittens so far—their house looks like my dream home: https://twitter.com/BethStern/stat…

Cat burglar in training.

All good fun except that it's the sperm that determines the sex of a baby — the egg doesn't have any say in the matter.

The paradox of most florists, whether local or national, is that they are at their worst during crunch times. Demand always overwhelms supply, and I've seen florists stock up flowers days and weeks (yes, weeks!) in advance just to meet the surge in demand.

20-ish years ago I set out to buy some stock. I didn't know much about the market but, using Macs all my career, I really wanted to buy some Apple stock. Of course, this was before etrade so I set out to a broker to place the order. The broker talked me out of the purchase, explaining that they would be bankrupt soon.…

...and all by design. They follow the same model on Fox Business. Most financial companies I work with will leave FBN or CNBC on all day with the sound down — the crawl is much more important than what the talking heads are saying — it's all visual.