This is one of those "BREAKING: Water Is Wet" items, but your seventh grade BFF Rush Limbaugh who moved to, like, Brussels or something when his dad got a weird job, crawled out from under a local bridge to voice his important opinions on Oprah's recent encounter with racism (and just plain retail rudeness) at an…
File under "too ridiculous to ignore": the "Boycott American Women" campaign.
And yes, we do realize it's only Tuesday, so that's subject to change. The Beatles and the Stones. Biggie and Tupac. Metallica and Megadeath. To these ranks, let us add combatants Miley Cyrus and Taylor Momsen.
This, amongst other potential pick-up lines, is from 1986's article John Bercow Guide to Understanding Women. At the time, he was a 23-year-old Tory councillor in South London. Now, he's Speaker of the House of Commons:
"-Hello. I have some old books for sale. -What kind of books? -Old ones. -OK. What subject areas? -Where does it say that?" (One of the conversations compiled over the years by rare book dealer The BookMine) [BoingBoing]
We got a number of distressed emails about a recent piece in Details. Possibly because the description read, "Getting tricked into fatherhood by a woman hell-bent on getting pregnant is much more common than you think." Good to know!
A new study about comparative (supposed) happiness levels in women since the 70s has sparked the inevitable conservative response by Ross Douthat that this is what feminism hath wrought. Actually, this is what happens when a self-proclaimed Harvard grad continues to read only the introductions to research papers.
From the good people who sent Joe The Plumber to Israel comes this gem of a video in which advice columnists Helen Smith and Amy Alkon recuse men from any birth control responsibilities.
