Unless it's a very well-chosen trend, this could backfire horribly as immature Democrats (like me) try to take over the trend with anti-Romney messages. Remember McDonald's and its #MCDstories fiasco?

NOBODY reported that @barackobama bought 70% of its followers. A bad New York Times article said 70% of his followers were fake or inactive. Even that's not a good analysis, because it only looked at 1,000 of 19,000,000 followers.

Try paging through your Activity Feed instead. You can filter by activity type (post, note, app, etc.) and it's actually in single-column chronological order, not the the timeline's "sorta chronological order."

Klout doesn't determine your influential topics based on all your tweets, just the ones people respond to. So, if you tweet serious reproductive rights stuff all day long, but people only respond to tweets about sweaters, you're influential about sweaters.

This is why the GOP is always one step behind. The Internet moves faster than the GOP can think.

He posted a 53-page rebuttal? "Editor, heal thyself!"

Yeah, this is probably the result of lazy googling. Somebody googled "cosplay stripper" or some such, found her video, then sent the e-mail without actually watching the video.

Based on the location and dates, it's got to be AnimMegaCon.

The two geekiest ones I know (D20 Burlesque and The Glitter Guild) are both at Gen Con Indy that weekend. Also, they probably have standards.

Most conventions have unreasonable expectations about how much work performers, employees, and volunteers should do. They think people should feel privileged just to be invited.

According to Google, Snoop has, at various times, also been banned from Australia, the UK, and (sorta) the Netherlands. He's going to have to add a geographer to his entourage to keep track of all the places he can't go.

That's what I figured, too. Which makes it even funnier to me. "Oh, by the way, we hired a booth babe to teach you English." That's a hilarious visual image.

For some reason, "she teaches English at a video game company" strikes me as a hilarious job description.

Going to a Purity Ball because you want to be popular? That is just so sad.

...and if that doesn't work to control women, they'll ask the legislature to pass a law requiring women to take pregnancy tests before they can buy a drink.

That probably is why she was picked, if stories like Game Change are to be believed, but McCain doesn't seem to have figured out a "safe" way to say that, because he likes to pretend he's above mere political considerations.

Before Nintendo, even. The Atari 2600 had a Casino cartridge back in 1978. The difference, though, is that game sucked so much it probably turned kids away from gambling!

The SSA has a list of most popular names for twins.

I'm no expert on Christianity, but I believe the theologically-correct solution to this problem is a duel. Bibles at fifty paces!

So, if he is still alive when a woman is elected President, should we expect a ritual suicide?