I also think because Kim needs a PR makeover and Ellen is loved by all. Being associated with Ellen makes other people look good. Besides, Ellen's show is the perfect place to showcase adorableness. See- Kristen Bell and sloths.

color changes under different lighting conditions. Its a crazy world we live in.

Nope, don't believe a word of it. Fame whores will do and say anything to get on TV.

I hate to spoil it for people, but Benedict has a disturbing resemblance to this dude:

How does one dance sexually? Is that a real question? Am I the only one who has seen lots of people dance sexually? I know that grumpy middle aged people in movies surely always seem to be able to spot it and then ban it which inevitably leads to wacky hijinks and lots of dancing.

Seriously. I went to a school with a popular Greek scene, but that scene was restricted to Pretty Blonde Girls With Money. I had several friends actively try to recruit me into their houses my sophomore year, but those girls were the exception to the rules at my college. As a Hispanic financial aid/scholarship…

researchers looked at birth records and Nielsen ratings and found that teen pregnancy declined faster in areas where the teens were watching MTV's programming than in areas where they weren't

He DID and he mentioned them both by name. Apparently, he didn't mention them fast enough or clearly enough so now he's a racist.

Let me get this straight, a guy who wins at nearly the end of a party, at which nearly everyone, including he, is schnockered, gives a genuinely shocked and fumbly speech. In said speech he fumbles the names of two fellow nominees who are less well known than the other two, understatement-no American actor forgets…

Or maybe it's that Tom Hanks as Robert Redford are just enormous, towering figures in Hollywood and Idris and Chiwetel are not - discriminatory in and of itself - but not necessarily damning (or racist, something I tend to give a slightly higher bar) on Wooderson's part.

He has an AMAZING resume that also includes beating and raping Madonna and being a raging asshole. What a great man.

Yeah I found it bizarre to classify that along with others that are either silly or tools for objectification. I have "period tracker." Can be as simple as just telling it each month when your period started, or you can track more specific things like various symptoms etc. It can help with predicting, backtracking…

Thanks for stating that. I did 16 months in Florida, and because I was the only college graduate in my dormatory (of about 70), I was often asked to help guys read/write letters from/to their loved ones. Some of them had a functional level of literacy, enough to get by, and others couldn't read or write whatsoever. …

I do recognize that you're talking about a very specific aspect of the discussion. But I think what's frustrating (for me at least) is that I'm not sure the piece is asking you to feel sorry for these women because they don't have social media access to their partners. I don't. What I do feel is an appreciation for…

Yeah, not to mention: once they get out of prison, they're going to enter a world where no one writes with a pen and a paper. So not only are they more likely to be illiterate in the first place, we're also not allowing them to foster technical literacy, which is going to hurt a lot if they attempt to find a job.

I'd just chime in in support, since you've covered visits and letters, is that phone calls aren't always an option either. Inmates get charged per minute for using the phone, and the rates they get charged are crazily high - sometimes over a dollar per minute for a call. There's a single company that basically has a…

Have I misread? I don't see anyone saying that it's a dire necessity. You started a thread about how they should maintain relationships by phone (prohibitively expensive) and visits (when the article explicitly discusses why this is often not possible) and people responded explaining how social media is yet another…

The problem is that prisons are not keeping up with the world, so prison relationships are becoming more difficult to maintain than regular long-distance relationships. In the days of letters and phone calls, people in prison relationships had the same access to their loved ones as people in other long-distance…

No one said it was! We're just saying that it is a major difference in their lives and it makes things harder.

Yeah, why don't these people carry out their relationships in person? Is one of the parties in this relationship locked away in some building far away from where most people live and can't physically get to their partner or something?