Barbie is semi-industrious. Here she is scooping poop:

Yeah, Meredith is wrong here. If you recall Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan's lightsaber crackled and hissed in the rain in identical fashion as this lightsaber in the snow.

They should make an app for lonely extroverts to find each other so they can platonically meet for coffee and leave the introverts alone so they can get some peace. This app would make one million dollars.

This year is the very worst. I have been run out of Ferguson because my house is right next to the fires. I am crashing on an air mattress three hours away with my two dogs at my mother's house, a woman I try to limit my encounters with to twice a year at best for various reasons. Some highlights from yours truly, the…

It's not much of a horror story...

One Thanksgiving, my teeth were just starting to come in. I was miserable and crying. My material grandmother, a lovely and tiny woman from Ireland, decided the best thing for me was to rub whiskey on my gums. Unfortunately, she didn't realize my paternal grandfather, an ex-Navy Italian from Queens, was doing the same…

Donna Tartt!! My internalized sexism kept me from reading her for a while (the name Tartt sounded like it was going to be a mystery series with either cats or cupcakes in the titles). But I got over the hump and read the three she has so far. MORE PLEASE!

Have you read The Time Traveler's Wife? It is phenomenal. You can tell the author, Audrey Niffenegger, takes her obscure German poet references and Chicago nativism kind of seriously, but it's beautifully written and emotional but still edgy.

Aren't she and Nicholas Sparks the literary equivalent of a Thomas Kincade painting?

I read "My Sister's Keeper" on vacation one year- it was fine for something I read mostly drunk poolside. But let's not pretend ANY of her books are "literature." She's a mass market paperback writer.

I'm not going to lie- I'm one of those horrible feminists who hates "chick lit."

I don't dismiss her books as airport fiction or chick lit, I dismiss them as badly written dreck. Seriously, I have more respect for Stephanie Meyer because at least her books are entertaining. My Sister's Keeper is one of the most offfensive things I have ever touched.

I like DugBow. Less characters used on social media, for the win!!!

describing Robin Thicke as "the human version of a white leather couch" just made my week. I like to think of him, along with Adam Levine and John Mayer, as part of this three-piece set:

At some holiday gathering when I was seven, all the boy cousins insisted on playing a game that appeared to involve swords and riding the dog like a horse, and they wouldn't let the girls play. A relative helpfully suggested that that game was "boy stuff" anyway and we should go play with the girl toys...you know,…

That would be a great superpower.

Why is this worth reporting? Following the dress code of an event you're attending is basic good manners. It doesn't matter if you're the guest of honour or you work there. A waiter at a black tie event won't serve champagne in a hoodie. It wouldn't even occurr to me, if I were a journalist, to cover a formal event in…

I think we have evidence of that already. It was done from about 800BC through 400AD and gave us what we call the Bible.

Keith Law has the science on his side, but you have to give a man of faith like Schilling credit—

Rabid homosexual activists