I'm so glad this was published! I've had "sheer black stockings" on my list of "wardrobe must-haves" for a while and I blame Kate's legs for sending me subliminal messages. I usually wear heavy black tights because I grew-up in New England and in old New England families, you wear recycled Puritan dresses to cover…

I don't even want to know what this woman thinks about marital rape. She probably thinks it's something invented by gay liberal leprechauns to blaspheme the real, Jesus-endorsed American nuclear family.

I always wanted my mother to read that book because it resonated with me and it sounded awfully like my granddad who died before I was born, but at the same time, I wanted to protect her and so I didn't recommend it to her or give her my copy to read. Maybe this summer I'll give it to her to read, it might be good for…

Everything this woman said last night just went straight-up her ass. I had to pick my teeth up off the floor when she said, "When I was pregnant, I didn't know how... how a mixed race child might come out?" What? Is your uterus a Cracker Jack Box? You just shake it around and see what the prize might be?

Kate Middleton + Jane Austen = further proof of a gene pool that is ankle deep.

That is sick and the article itself is even more ridiculous, "I suspect she would have retained a weakness for men in uniform, and a yen for dashing Muslim men." I don't even know where to begin with that gem, Tina Brown, you've outdone yourself. Where do I even begin to shovel through that magnificent pile of…

When I get a headache, I just close my office door and take a 20 minute power nap on the floor. The mumbling of my adviser and/or the director of graduate studies below me is very soothing. I've seen some of my undergrads do something similar, only they just commandeer a couch in the library and pass out. They're…

I didn't realise that our talks with the Taliban also involved getting their input on abortion.

Amazing.

O Allah!

I just get f**king sick of hearing about it the diet/exercise regime-of-the-moment. I hate dealing with the smug, "Born-Again Thin People." It is literally like converting to a new religion for some people where it becomes an all-consuming activity where condescension and alienation are two of the sacraments. I have…

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hahahahaha! Yes! Dynamite them and send them to the bottom of the ocean. I'm sure a giant squid somewhere would like to embrace them. I don't even know what "all-American" entails and I'm an American Studies Ph.D. Come to think of it, we never even address that issue because we spend a lot of time deconstructing the…

YES! Oh good point! Hmm... I'll suggest that to him next week when I have lunch with him. I'm sure he'll love to open that can of rant.

Yeah, frighteningly enough, my best friend is Irish and Lithuanian, so I'm not sure what criteria they were using for "all-American enough," since the boy is whiter than I am and I'm like Mayflower white. Maybe it was because he's gay? Dunno.

Ikea has a special Ikea hijab. Why can't Hollister and A&F have hijabs?

My friend is writing her dissertation on X-Rays and race and a host of other things that X-Rays have contributed to in American history. I sent this to her and offered her $20 if she could work it into her dissertation somehow. She took me up on it. I'm pretty sure I'll owe her $20 in a few years. Maybe I'll have a…

I always get her and Lauren Bush confused. They're both so totally irrelevant, I don't know why I feel dumb about it.

Jill was the only one who was remotely culturally interested. I truly wanted to travel with her, she was actually intellectually curious and dressed appropriately (e.g. the souk). When Kelly went "jogging" in her sports bra I almost had a stroke and the niqaabi fortune teller almost sent me over the edge... but I…