I'd add Scott Westerfield's Uglies books to that list. Neil Gaiman and Terry Prattchet's YA novels are pretty awesome, too.

Thank you for that delightful image as I didn't think the froggy face was enough to warrant a mind bleach-and-brillo treatment.

Don't think I've seen them there, but UF has a mighty proliferation of condoms. There was a health ed kiosk that was around campus, and the infirmary had baskets full of them in every bathroom. If you were a club president, they gave you a massive bag of them. I wonder if the frats and such were similarly stocked.

Mimi is like Shangela redux.

I'll get a hearing aide. >.<

Alright, people. I work 7 hours (sometimes with out a potty break), in an overly warm classroom, with 25-30 middle schoolers who need me to constantly walk around to keep them in line. I get 30 minutes to walk my kids to the lunch room, wait for them to be seated, get to the lounge, eat my lunch, and maybe go pee…

It's been stuck in my head for 3 days already.

Does it make them any less smug?

Am I the only one that squeed over the little pageant queens throwing around cash and acting badass?

As are their movements. Less sexualized. I think there may be less Pro Am, too.

She did a song with Cee-lo Green, "Please," that is pretty darn amazing.

According to the connotative meaning, you are perfectly correct. However, the denotative meaning would include any prejudice based on race regardless of medium, intent, perpetrator, or victim.