And just like that, I have hope again.

That's always how I heard it in my head. I think this pronunciation is Mamet-specific.

Benjamin Franklin looks so young these days.

My only consolation is that when I was 18 my friend worked at the one on East 59th Street - where Williams Sonoma is now - and she told me they had no security cameras and I stuffed my pockets with necklaces more than once and walked right out. Suckas!

Urban's wares were always so flimsy yet so overpriced. But at 20 I wanted to buy out the whole store. So I guess it makes sense?

If the Biebs had downed a scotch and soda would there be such a ruckus? Just be glad he's not doing coke.

"I can finally join in on the baby talk with my middle school homies! LOL LMFAO AS IF. I'm birthing music royalty while all your kids will turn out just like you: BASIC."

Getting caught up in teenagehood is more intoxicating than drugs. I understand what you meant. However, bystanders - and live-tweeters who do nothing to stop a crime in progress - can be arrested too, as The Accused demonstrated.

I just read some of these ana posts. My heart aches for these girls. Eating disorders usually go hand in hand with self abuse, like cutting. I see so many horizontal scabs...

SO. JEALOUS. He's like my spiritual adviser. Him, Willie Nelson and Rihanna.

Agusta Thorbergsdottir and Bjork Eidsdottir and Halldor Laxness are OK, but "Blaer" is not. Huh.

It's moments like these that make me believe Anonymous can be a force for good.

Seriously.

What's really atrocious about this situation is the Autotune. It's just nauseating.

No joke, they look like a great couple. I have no doubt they're in love.

We used to birth children at 13. Mentally I was about 16 until I was 24. It's a line in the sand.

I work in media. A review copy of her book may have passed under my eyesight and I may have picked it up. It may still be on the shelf next to my desk. Maybe.

He must make her laugh her ass off, though.

Yeah, she's gonna have to become a chambermaid and raise her child where no one knows their names, away from the shame that clings to her.

17 and 22? Really? When I was 18 I dated a 23-year-old.