The arc of history bends towards justice, or so we say. Yet, every so often, we totally lose ground to reactionary, bigoted curmudgeons who work tirelessly to roll back any progress we make on social justice issues. Unfortunately, today is one of those days. Michelle Duggar's transphobic robocall seems to have in part…

Hot on the heels of Jill Duggar's wedding to Derick Dillard, sister Jessa Duggar, 21, has announced her engagement to one Ben Seewald—a spiritually-focused, red-flag-free ministry-pursuer who has "issues" with the Catholic idea of the Virgin Mary as a "sinless being.". Though the two plan to save their first kiss…

After a life-threatening bout of preeclampsia in 2010, followed by a miscarriage at 19 weeks in 2011, this has been the longest stretch of time that Michelle Duggar has been not-pregnant in 27 years. So the 47-year-old went to a high-risk pregnancy doctor to see if she's able to have any more kids.

Infamous mom of 19 kids Michelle Duggar has enumerated the many ways that she has learned to love her body even after having been perpetually pregnant for two decades. A positive body image is great and all, but some of her reasons just read like she's cycling through the Kübler-Ross model of grief.

Miley Cyrus started her Bangerz tour yesterday and it looks...interesting. If her opening number is any indication, this concert pretty much encapsulates everything we've seen Miley do in the past several months: underwear as outerwear, sinister-looking stuffed animals, a little person carrying a photo of Britney…

Romantic relationships, like elderly pets and large boats, require maintenance. Keeping the spark alive is a struggle that's long troubled humanity, often inspiring couples to seek the wisdom of others. Luckily, you live in a time when you can get advice on sex and love straight from Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.

In case you were worried Michelle Duggar wasn't teaching her daughters, all 75,312* of them, not to dress like sluts, you can put your mind at ease!

Scarier than any horror film, it appears that Michelle Duggar, birther of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, has thrown her official endorsement (what?) for Missouri state Senate behind liver-spotted infant Todd Akin. She previously hit the trail in support of the world's foremost virgin father, Rick Santorum, so it makes…

Michelle Duggar, she of the 19 kids and counting, has some strong words for people who accuse her and her husband's prolific babymaking of being wasteful or irresponsible in an overpopulated world: overpopulation doesn't exist, because the entire global population can easily fit inside of the Jacksonville, Florida…

Today's Dr. Nancy Snyderman: "That uterus can't have any spring in it anymore."

Michelle Duggar, 45, and her husband Jim Bob, 46, visited the Today show this morning to announce that they are expecting their twentieth baby. She has already been pregnant 19 times. With this gestation — if she carried a kid for nine months each time — that would be 180 months or 15 years that she's been pregnant.…

• From a ridiculous piece on Amanda Seyfried:

• Rihanna has been told to dress "conservatively" for her New Year's Eve gig at the the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. A source reports that her team is frantic and, "Rihanna is tearing her hair out over what to do..."

• Chris Brown whined to Vibe about how Oprah Winfrey treated him after he assaulted Rihanna saying, "I didn't get a call from them or anything. I felt embarrassed, but at the same time I felt stabbed in the back."

The future of reality shows? "Britain's Got Talent is temporarily thrown into disarray when a physically unattractive person is revealed to have some shred of societal worth." As for the Duggar joke... eh, no. [Onion]