• We were so into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and their Yearning For Zion Ranch, where girls in their early teens get married off to gross molesty old men with multiple other wives, none of whom are allowed to wear red because that's Jesus' color.
  
• Are those teens better, or worse off than the brave 8-year-old Yemeni girl name Nojoud Muhammed Nasser who was married off by her crazy homeless father, but has now successfully filed for divorce.
  
• A study in contrasts: the marriage of Nojoud Muhammed Nasser versus the insane Southern belles of MTV's True Life who call themselves "old maids" at age 24.

• OMG I almost forgot about that Australian father and daughter who fuck and have babies. Oh ew.
• Can't some people just have a nice, normal wedding that doesn't involve incest, polygamy, statutory rape, fake boobs or Botox?
• Mommablogger Dooce appears to be a fairly reasonable person whose wedding probably didn't involve any of those things.
• Karl Lagerfeld hates Dooce's kid, though. Actually he hates all children. And also fat people!
• You know who probably had kind of shitty moms? Those horrid teenage cheerleader bitches who beat the living hell out of their friend and may now face life in prison.
• So make a bonfire out of Cosmo's "Sexy" issue, and rip off that bandanna you've been wearing. Let it all hang out this weekend!

There are so many infuriating things about Ms. Harris-Lacewell's argument that it's hard to know where to begin. But here goes! One, Lacewell labels Hillary "Scarlett" simply because she's white and wealthy and does not mention one iota of Clinton's policies concerning African-American women, writing,"black women need health insurance." Well, one of the main pillars of Clinton's policy is now, and has always been, a more universal health care plan. "Black women need decent schools for their children," Lacewell continues. Thing is, as a New York Senator, Hillary strongly supported the bill that would give Head Start $7.350 billion in funding for the 2008 fiscal year. You know what else she did for kids? Clinton introduced the Kinship Caregiver Support Act, which makes sure that children who are living in grandparent-supported households have easier access to payments from the government. According to the 2000 census, "more than half of... Black coresident grandparents were responsible for their grandchildren."

"Black women need help caring for their aging parents," Lacewell continues. Hillary co-sponsored a bill to increase social security benefits for public servants.

"Black women voters are rejecting Hillary Clinton because her ascendance is not a liberating symbol. Her tears are not moving. Her voice does not resonate." That obviously, I can't argue with: it could be entirely true that black women voters do not find Hillary a liberating symbol and prefer Barack Obama, for, among other reasons, the feeling of liberation he imparts. That doesn't mean that Hillary doesn't care about black women; calling her a racist without backing it up with anything substantive is just an intellectually cheap way to ruffle feathers. But I'm just a wealthy, white Scarlett O'Hara. What do I know?

Hillary's Scarlett O'Hara Act [The Root]