The mic gets cut when they are off the record, including those times when they are reviewing the video transcript.

When he read this out loud, I literally yelled, "BOOM" at my laptop. My cat was not amused, and the dogs woke up and barked for five minutes to scare away the crazy person who had clearly broken into the house.

Personally, I could not get past the caption of the cover photo of the announcement: "Lindsay Benner and Dan Das Mann married in front of groomsmen wearing faux fur coveralls in Mill Valley, California."

It can mean that in the U.S., too. We just have an extra meaning. The non-sexy "bonk" is probably onomatopoeic, as we usually use it when the action of hitting someone creates a funny noise, as hitting someone with a live mic would do.

Baby animals are as relentless as they are cute.

The only solace I find is that he is so horrible, we may be able to get a progressive in the governor's mansion as a reaction to the utter disappointment that Corbett has been.

I work at a DV/SA shelter and am struggling with almost this same issue (not so much within my own organization, more so within the field as a whole). Specifically, I have found that some of the second-wave feminists within this field are territorial and complain about not being "allowed" to just focus on "women's…

If you happen to find yourself in Northeastern PA and want to support a female magician, you should stop by the Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA. Dorothy Dietrich (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dietrich) is one of the owners, and she does magic shows there, too. She is a pioneer and has a number of…

I posit that it is impossible for Angela Lansbury to go to the "wrong event." If everyone at an event is psyched to see you, then you're not at the wrong event.

I agree with you, but that isn't why I am commenting. Since you invoked the Wilkinson, I just wanted to make sure that you had heard that he has a role in the movie - they'll have him playing the Bishop of Digne. :)

If you'd like to learn more about Marieke Vervoort (and her dog), she wrote a lovely blog post: http://tourismforallinspain.blogspot.com/2010/05/marieke-vervoort-testimony-twice.html

Yeah, that confused me, too. I mean, she's in a uniform and making a funny gesture, so I could excuse it if she were a random zebra whose gesture seemed to indicate an apology for bad officiating, but given the historical nature of being the first female official, she can't be a random zebra. If you just looked at the…

Alternately, "Argentina Makes Human Rights History with New Gender Identity Law."

With a twenties theme and starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. It sounds like fun.

Lucky James Wilkie. His dad is one of the stars of the show!

Is she wearing a tangerine dress with turquoise shoes? So lovely.

I have had an even more cynical thought, which is that at first they didn't want to get married, and wanted people to stop asking, so they used the "not until everyone can get married" line and now have abandoned it since they don't need it any more.

In my house, this is called "pudging," and it is punishable by a swift and well-deserved kick to the nuts.

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Man. I was waiting for the episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike Rowe makes a whole bunch of subtle penis jokes about tubes of meat.