I once locked myself out before going to a formal event. It was a freak accident. I had a safety device, like one of those door chains, only mine was a brass loop and knob thing. As I was shutting the door behind me it somehow engaged and locked me out so that I could only open the door 2 inches. No locksmith or apt…

I've done a lot of retouching as well. I don't enjoy picking images of women apart, but on a technical, shop-talk level I think that her forehead looks a little shopped as well as the lower lip and chin. There also appears to be some selective blurring. Whatever though. She looks amazing to me, and there's something…

Wow, that really made me sad. Family should be your support, but what you describe sounds like a sort of forced co-dependancy, or extreme passive-agressiveness. Yet another reason to never work with family. :)

That's very interesting - I think a succinct summary like that would have benefitted the post.

I think my initial comments were very much influenced by watching friends of mine put up with similar situations where they were being told that they weren't black enough, or they were too black, or they weren't a real Chicana, etc. It seems like it can be hard enough gaining acceptance from people within your…

You're totally right. I think that even though he doesn't have a strong ancestral connection if he had a history of getting involved and giving back he'd deserve more of a pass for wanting to portray a Native person on film. I guess in my original comment I wasn't so much trying to defend him personally, as I was…

Did I miss the part where it was explained how this could affect the legalization of same-sex marriages?

I like Michael Ian Black's take on it. "No word yet on Ms. Van Susteren success in her boycott of Rush Limbaugh’s show because no such boycott exists." [www.michaelianblack.net]

I'm not any part Indian myself as far as I know. What's bothering me here is people feeling they have the right to dismiss anyone else's identity.

Agreed. I also just hate inflammatory headlines, especially when they make me waste my time reading an article that turns out to contain no facts. Who knows, maybe the film will be crap, but Depp's body of work outside of Pirates is fairly thoughtful and nuanced so I don't see a reason to assume this is going to be a…

Thinking makes it too hard to troll.

I think he's trying to be edgy with his extreme language and create something somewhere between comedy and performance art. He's treading on Michael Richards territory though. What makes it suck the most is that it's the verbal equivalent of squeezing out a turd and parading around with it. It doesn't require talent,…

The film is culturally insensitive because Depp's not Indian enough? Or, is he just a liar and not Indian at all? Sounds like the latter whey you say stuff like, "Depp is allegedly part Cherokee, but ... shouldn't a Native American actor be the one...?" Oh to be the arbiter of racial identity!

I agree it's important for people to realize the far-reaching effects of denying women this medication. And I don't mean to be argumentative, but the first part of her testimony was about the financial burden of denying single and married women contraception. She did go on to point out a worst-case-scenario of denying…

I think too much of the response from the left has been along the lines of "BC is not just for pregnancy prevention, you know". The real problem is the right equating someone trying to prevent unwanted pregnancy with someone who is a "sexual deviant". We shouldn't be apologizing for having sex - it's a natural…

And how is it even about tax dollars when they're asking all insurers to cover it?

Well, hopefully what will happen is that people will use it and "madame" will no longer have any meaning other than female. And, don't worry, being mature may seem "demoralizing" now but once you get here you'll see it's not so bad.

It's funny but I think the message would have been more clear if she used her thighs. Next time they should have her walk into a bar, sit down on a barstool, reach for a bowl of walnuts and started cracking them between her thighs.

Back in the 80's, when I was an impressionable young girl, I read an interview with Annette Funicello where she said the secret of her weight maintenance was that she only ate every other day. That's stuck with me for all these years. I've never once tried it - I think that kind of thing is too difficult when you have…

Brown is beautiful, there's no doubt about it. And I love that website's positive, gender-nutral quotes by influential women. However, one small part of me wishes the focus wasn't on "pretty". I know most girls (and women) want to feel pretty, and a big part of self-esteem centers on this. It's terrible that something…