At least one half of Daft Punk came to her aid!

In the book that inspired Blade Runner, there was a religion on TV that everyone was obsessed with and it turned out the figures on TV where robots.

That was required reading in my 11th grade English class, and I've read it 3 or 4 times since then. It was the first book I ever read that I had an actual visceral reaction to and I wish more kids were required to read it.

Because we don't teach it and I am willing to bet they never prepped for it either. This would be a good time to reference Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

To be fair, last month they had an entire category devoted to Valley Forge (White, European immigrant central) and no one wanted to answer those questions either. For good reason: They got them all wrong.

So they can let FB have the name or they can get crushed by legal fees. Hooray for capitalism.

There has been, for a couple years now. Paper is a drawing/illustration app from a company called FiftyThree. I can't imagine they're amused this morning.

Yes, she always thought of herself as down, but sleeping with Jellybean Benitez and picking up Nuyorican boys on the LES doesn't make it so. Look at who she married. It wasn't Carlos Leon.

REAL TALK: One group's use of a word does not justify a non-member's use of it. She's old enough to know better.

I'm sorry, i laughed so hard I choked.

#hashtagsdonthavespacesgrandma

The thing that bothers me about people trying to make nigga the ubiquitous and innocuous version of "this guy" is that non-blacks could easily use their own group's racial/ethnic slurs. Why ride black people's reclamation bandwagon when you could create your own. She could have said, "this guy", which is exactly what…

*sigh*...tell em', Paul Mooney:

Hands up that you trust Burt's opinion that we'll sob like hungry, angry babies and just skipped right to the comments without reading any of the links.

I see what you're getting at, but if that is the case and she was trying her hand at satire, twitter is not the medium to use as it can be grossly misinterpreted.

I think it's people's annoying "need to know" that gets them in trouble and has them insulting complete strangers. It can go too far like it did earlier this year here in Virginia. It is "disrespectful and humiliating" and it needs to stop.

Just because Winamp is closing doesn't mean you can't get the software. I love older versions of Winamp. It's a very compact piece of software that does its job well; since audio codec formats have changed very little and Winamp supports all of them, their shutting down won't impact anything or cause the software…