That is so disappointing. Drinking culture was one of my favorite things about England. Drink up, across-the-pond buddies.

I Get Around! I must have requested that every night I went to the bar in college (in the early aughts, so it's not like it was exactly contemporary then, either), and I still love the shit out of that song.

Not necessary. She's our perpetual BFF. She transcends fads.

Nobody should be forced to kiss or touch anybody else, ever. Why would you do this to a child? Teaching a kid that his or her permission is not needed before being touched by somebody else is damaging and is counterintuitive to all the "bad touching" lessons that children are subjected to all the time. If a kid…

I went to a baseball game and sat next to a woman, her boyfriend, and her (not their) teenaged children. She proceeded to get so blitzed that the boyfriend had to carry her out. The kids cringed SO HARD, and the whole thing, while embarrassing to watch I'm sure excruciating to live through, didn't seem like an unusual…

It's like, Yay! Your marriage is in kindergarten.

I just figured that if he could afford a seat next to Michelle Rodriguez and Coke Model, he had to be/know somebody.

I am also a librarian, but I have seen the dudes who go to ALA, and the pickings are pretty slim. But nobody says that you have to hook up with other conference attendees and this year's ALA is in Las Vegas so...here's to making some groomsman's bachelor party trip much much much better than expected.

No, you just haven't been ditching sessions with the right people.

Hookups have happened at every conference in the history of ever.

It's not an entirely new idea, but it still makes me crack up.

I could see him and Ann Coulter having a secret lodge somewhere where they roll their eyes at the Fox News crowd and talk smack about most Republican viewpoints. But then he'd just be a shitty panderer who doesn't even have the strength of his convictions to excuse his awfulness. I'd rather he be a sincere crazy…

I don't want to live in a world where Glenn Beck even occasionally makes sense.

I am delighted by how greatly you misunderstood my comment.

My 2 year old niece is the world's littlest Loki fangirl. She's obsessed with The Avengers, and yells "Yay, Loki bad boy!" when Hiddleston shows up on screen. Not even Thor with his luscious locks gets the same reaction. I think she says the "bad boy" part for my benefit, so that I understand that she knows he's the…

I'd have to be a lot better at math to calculate just how many times my friends and I said the words, "Oh, Claudia!" when discussing Party of Five at lunchtime the day after it aired. That girl. Even that tiny alcoholic Bailey didn't annoy/anger us to the same degree.

I firmly believe that lying to my brother's children is a public service and one of the most important parts of being an aunt. My niece is 2, and believes anything I tell her. She'll learn. My nephew is 8, and has a better grasp on who I am. He asks me something, and what I tell him may or may not be the truth. He…

Oh black Jesus. Not this again.

Not enough?