Trolls are small, pudgy, genital-free humanesque figures that were a momentarily interesting phenomena. They were…
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In response to the kerfluffle over the New York Times coverage of the BlogHer convention, Salon's Rebecca Traister asks a bunch of smart questions like, "Why shouldn't writers pursue the success where they're encouraged, rather than banging their heads until they bleed against the door that continues to bar them from… Read more
If the National Enquirer weren't relentless hyping its as-yet pictureless story about John Edwards' baby, we could…
Sometimes, you have kind of a shitty day, and you just want to imagine that the world works this way. From the…
Another day, another dollar, another article bemoaning the fact that Hollywood doesn't feel the need to stigmatize…
From Britain's The F Word blog comes a nifty little program that scouts your Internet browsing history and predicts…
If there was one American cultural meme we didn't need to export, it would be the recent surge in reported cases of…
A couple weeks ago we weighed in on the story of Mahbooba Ahadgar, the third woman from Afghanistan to ever qualify…
It's a beautiful morning here, one of those mornings no one in Beijing ever has anymore where you can pretend it's…
Five members of the FLDS sect in Texas turned themselves in yesterday to face charges related to child abuse. Five of them, including sect leader Warren Jeffs, were indicted last week on charges that they had sex with minors. The sixth man, Lloyd Hammon Barlow (middle guy in the bottom row) was only charged with… Read more
- Nancy Pelosi said aloud today what everyone knows implicitly and no one ever acknowledges: when the right-wingers…
Brain tumors are notoriously hard to treat. In fact, the most effective chemotherapy treatment in the laboratory, adriamycin, is unable to cross the blood-brain barrier to affects against brain tumors. But, today, scientists announced that the popular impotence drugs Viagra and Levitra seemingly help adriamycin cross… Read more
We want to dislike Cindy McCain, we really do. She was probably one of those perpetuperky cheerleader types as a kid, and, as an adult, she's the wife of the guy we don't want to see elected because of, among other things, his stance on women's rights. But then she's all playing with the cute kids from Operation Smile… Read more
Men all like one kind of woman — soft, cuddly, girly, pink and oh-so-feminine! They want to be needed, have their…
The New Yorks Times Sunday Styles Section published a long piece this weekend on the BlogHer conference that took…
Most of us spend a minimum of 18 years living with our mom and, from the first time that someone related to us the…
Luo Lan, 39, didn't quite fit into her science-loving family and bounced from job to job until she found her calling…
Kathleen Parker has already pissed us off by being all like, keep your proto-slutty toddler away from my perfect…
Barack Obama's already left Berlin, but the pictures remain. The last time I personally saw the Victory Column, I…
Buck Angel used to be a woman, an extremely unhappy woman stuck in a body that felt completely unfamiliar. That…