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Insightful and nuanced and personal and moving.

I take it you aren't big into reading classic novels about members of the aristocracy. And that you are really fun and positive.

How is it that no one remembers that RS made it's name in news and politics? Hunter S. Thompson anyone? RS has some of the most in depth and well reported stories anywhere. Covering this story is not out of character.

Have you read Rolling Stone in the last decade? This "pop culture" magazine is one of the few publications to run long-form, deeply researched articles on the real estate bubble collapse, the banking crisis, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, foreclosure scams, and national political candidates - the sort of coverage Time…

So you hate fashion and charity work?

"He isn’t even completely correct about the "disproportionate amount of crime" that black males supposedly commit, but that doesn't stop him from arguing that racial profiling is the key to successful policing:"

...that's a stretch. That's like saying Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold massacred their school because they listened to Marilyn Manson and not because they were a psychopath and depressive, respectively.

It fascinates me, the number of people who have an issue with this image now. I don't recall people pitching these hissy fits or threatening boycotts or releasing evidence and possibly harming due process when the NYTimes and other media used the exact same picture months ago.

I don't think it's a reach. I think it's hard for us to see criminals in normal settings. It makes putting them in jail more complicated. I firmly believe the main reason that the U.S. has become an unapologetic incarceral state over the last 30 years is because we refuse to think of criminal defendants as human…

I'm not sure how the Rolling Stones cover "rewards a terrorist with celebrity treatment" when I'm pretty sure the 24-hour non-stop coverage from CNN et al already do that.

Meet Christ Almighty*. This thing sits on a chair by my bed, forever plugged into the wall, and I have habitually forgotten to put it away before company so many times that by now I don't even bother. All my friends have seen it. The guys always tell me that they'll never sit in that chair again, to which I just roll…

just buy a hitachi magic wand and grow up

My 3 year old daughter is obsessed with Hello Kitty. I would live in constant fear that she would somehow find that thing, probably when we have company, and I'd have an "It's an electric ear cleaner!" moment of my own.

Ummmm, is it just me, or do none of these things look "robust" enough?

Yvanehtnioj also said "and also in the last 5 minutes of every TLC Bringing Home Baby episode."

Helicopter?

I want to be a Duchess. :(

PSA: nobody cares about how little you care about this baby.

I'm an American and I think it's exciting. Make fun of me all you want. I like babies. I like the royal love story. I'm a romantic.
Give me my pints of ice cream and Lifetime movies.

The only thing more annoying than royalty worshipers are those who don't live in a country with a monarchy, yet still feel compelled to make fun of it.