Callie, I'm gonna let you finish, but Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy had the best Halloween costumes of the year.

You kids on this site are way too young. I knew in an instant that The Blonds were George Michael and Madonna, even though I have no idea who The Blonds are.

It reminds me strongly of the time, while teaching, when a student guessed that it was Jimmy Carter who dropped the A-bombs at the end of WWII.

So, Jezebel has been (rightly, in my mind) criticizing the trend toward near-nudity in women's Halloween costumes, and then two women who buck that trend are accused of wearing pajamas? Neither the Cowardly Lion nor Buzz Lightyear are known for having particularly form-fitting outfits, so it seems like these women…

Oh man, I feel so old Callie didn't get the George Michael/Madonna pair. It's made even worse by the fact that I don't know who The Blondes are. I'm just going to sit in the corner and fondly remember the good old days, from so long ago, the 90s.

Really? George Michael "Faith" era and Madonna on the cover of her "Sex." book.

I can't be bothered to notice your costume because I'm too distracted by your FUCKING AMAZING EYEBROWS!

Are you perchance talking about the Forever Fest 80's dance party in Austin? I am super super excited for it!

Any Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fans?

I was a Lichtenstein painting on Saturday! (I'm on my phone, hopefully the picture doesn't come out wonky).

TRULY, TRULY, TRULY OUTRAGEOUS!

I made myself a Jem and the Holograms costume this year :) Wearing it to an 80s dance party Saturday, too!

I'm tumblr!

I like my firearms, and my husband actually works for a gun store, but I agree that kids, at least at a certain age, need to be taught even fake shooting is absolutely wrong.

Maybe try and find a gun safety movie for him to watch? Something that will express in no uncertain terms that guns and shooting are not games,…

It's not bad to tell someone she is pretty. What IS bad is to tell her she is pretty at the exclusion of or in disproportionately high numbers compared to all other comments and compliments.

Because that's pretty much the only compliment girls are given?

I think it might be because minstrel shows were just about old enough that they didn't really come up in conversation/education… and still fresh enough to be something that perhaps older people didn't want to bring up. The "Black & White Minstrel Show" ran on the BBC until 1978, three years before I was born; I…

I think the specifics of how minorities have been oppressed in the past is really glossed over in history education so I think these things are a blind spot for a lot of people. The big ones like slavery and segregation are discussed, but for example I didn't know what blackface was until sometime in my twenties, well…

Scar gave me Zoobilee Zoo flashbacks. I like it.

I tend to think this is fake, and if it's not I hope this lady's house accidentally catches fire from one of the many flaming bags of poo on her step.