There are moments when the true sinister black hole in the place of a heart of the Right reveals itself, and I would think this to be one. You know where they don't tip, Roger Ailes? Fucking FRANCE.

A citizen of this country should not be fucking buying a $4 cup of coffee if he or she can't slip in a dollar - or shit, you know, some larger coins — into the lucite box. The end.

No, not the end. Seriously. I spent many years as a barista, at Starbucks and elsewhere, so I have perhaps a measure more sympathy for their plight than Neil Cavuto, but tipping is the only way I can justify going there. Some days tipping is the only way I know I'm still human. Tipping wherever possible, wherever it is allowed, is your civic fucking duty. Whatever your political stripe, your beef with the way things work in this world— that hard work is insufficiently valued anymore, that market capitalism unfairly rewards elites and hucksters, that the meritocracy is dead or that welfare dissuades anyone from working or that cynicism has permeated our every action these days — tipping is your quickest, easiest, most painless mode of dissent.

Okay, soooo... T.G.I.F.! See you in church!

[www.thehollywoodgossip.com]  Monkey See, Monkey Do

Andrea Bailey of Ashland, Kentucky bought a pack of straws at Wal-Mart for her 3-year-old-daughter a couple weeks ago. The pack had a variety of shapes, including a heart, but also two that she says look like penises. Bailey was quite upset and complained to the story. Wal-Mart says it has pulled the product, manufactured by Eagle Marks Corporation, from its shelves as they investigate the matter. [www.boingboing.net]

Deciding how far to push the obvious reference to male genitalia must have been tricky. The spot wavers on both sides of the line—and I think that works very well.

Lohan is thinking outside of the box, though. She recently revealed that she’s got a business idea to carry her over until her next windfall: She’ll be starting her own line of leggings. Lohan told Life & Style, “It will be a while before it comes out, but I’m going to do it. Some of them will have prints and some will have patterns. I love leggings.”

[www.msnbc.msn.com]

Jezebel is the 22nd most powerful blog in the world according to the Guardian.

[bitchmagazine.org]

from "Some not-so-petty criticism" by A.Z. p. 18-19:

"So let's talk about Jezebel, the women's destination in the Gawker media empire, which, for a site that likes to front as feminist, is occasionally far worse than Jane ever was in dealing out baldly antiwoman claptrap.  Now, the whole Gawker ethos goes something like this: Snarky, provacative posts + even snarkier commenters = mad page views.  Since writers are actually paid according to their posts' page views, inflaming readers means easy money.  Which brings us to the recent post by blogger Moe Tkacik, who fancies herself Jezebel's rebel ideologue— a stance that, more often than not translates into dissing feminism and feminists.... If Jezebel is going to continue to post sloppy, misogynist tripe and call it journalism, at least some of us can take comfort in seeing the number of people who won't let it stand."

As drug companies race to find a women's version of Viagra, some experts say they are creating a disorder that doesn't exist.

(From the Washington Post website today, no link, just headline as I am not registered)

[www.guardian.co.uk]

[www.backinskinnyjeans.com]

Are you a bitch, slut, or secretary?

vintage (TV) ads.. Nancy Kwan tells why "Oriental" women have great skin.  Pearl Cream!

Elliot Spitzer caught in prostituion sting!!!

A word from Glamour: We've read your comments, every single one. Our ultimate goal here is to open a productive conversation about men, sex, love and dating; clearly, that can't happen when the majority of readers would like to pulverize the blogger. And so, we've decided it's time to move on; as of today, Mike is no longer blogging for us.

[www.glamour.com]

they finally fired him!