Theoretically, squirrels are cute and it'd be delightful to have a trained squirrel bustling around one's home, piling up nuts and candybars in a cool, dry little corner. Then again, squirrels seem like busybodies, don't they? They're always bustling and storing, finding new places to stuff what they think is…

Added to the ever-changing, constantly growing, completely contradictory list of shit that pregnant women should and should not do to have the best pregnancy ever is the consumption of nuts, previously thought to increase the risk of nut allergies in children. A new study suggests that the exact opposite is true.

I guess that means Amber from Clueless is gonna live forever. (90s movie snap!) (sorry.)

Considering that people used to wear mouse skin as fake eyebrows, bleed themselves to look paler and dye their teeth black to match their hair makes our time of wax strips, chemical peels and Skrillex hair seem a lot less strange. We're just contributing to the ageless human tradition of doing crazy-ass things to…

While food now regularly comes with a warning label if it "may contain nuts" and many schools are instituting no-peanut policies, researchers have found that many people still don't believe in nut allergies. That presents a huge problem for parents whose kids could die if someone in the room decides to unwrap a peanut…

Roseanne Barr was on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, radiant in a citrusy caftan and feathery extensions in her hair. When asked why she had moved to Hawaii and purchased a macadamia nut farm, she replied, "Menopause." And added: "When you get old, you want kind of a less dumb-ass lifestyle."

The $30 million makeover resulted in a Wes Andersen-esque animation voiced by Robert Downey Jr. If you're the sort of person who is a) not allergic to peanuts and b) charmed by commercials, then yes, you might find this charming.

In addition to "balls," "nuts" and "cojones," the Cosmo story "Two Spots He's Dying For You To Touch" uses "his boys," "package," "his twins" and then prints ten weird nicknames guys allegedly use. Winston Churchill? Ghandi? Both bald and wrinkly.

Tea Party protesters have once again descended upon Washington, D.C., and this time, in addition to carrying their obnoxious, misspelled, and vaguely racist signs, they've decided to spout hateful epithets at passing lawmakers as well:

A British study says "lad mags" with scantily clad women are responsible for sexualizing young people, and that the government should put age restrictions on their sale. But would such restrictions fix the problem?

Memo to Natasha Walter of the Times of London, and to everybody else talking about young women's sex lives these days: girls got 99 problems, and "promiscuity" ain't one.

Senator Barbara Boxer isn't playing around. Laying out a logical case against Ben Nelson's amendment - which is really Stupak 2.0 - she blows off all the discussion of riders in favor of real talk on gender discrimination and privacy.

"Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election — ACORN Stole It!" No, that headline - and the accompanying story - is not from the Onion. [TPM]

Grape-Nuts is shooting for that coveted men 45-and-over demographic. Says "insights director" Kelley Peters, "Men aspire to it...It's strong and stern, the father figure of cereals." [WSJ, Gawker]

In an effort to protect children with allergies, schools across the country are banning nut products and establishing "nut free zones." But the precautions are turning into a form of a social hysteria?

MP Claire Curtis-Thomas in England wants lad mags like Maxim and Nuts to carry film-style ratings. In a report released this week, Curtis-Thomas said that these lad mags are not rated and treated the same way as porn even though she sees the magazines as being "little more than pornography." She also wants downmarket…

Michael Grove, the shadow education secretary and a prominent Conservative in England, gave a speech today at a meeting organized by the think tank IPPR condemning lad mags (like Nuts, Zoo, and Maxim) for promoting "instant-hit hedonism" and presenting women as "permanently, lasciviously, uncomplicatedly available."…

Perhaps you've seen trucks or trailers with large rubber testicles attached to the back? Virginia state delegate Lionel Spruill has introduced a bill to ban "displaying replicas of human genitalia." He claims the big balls are a safety issue, because drivers can get distracted. Spruill was prompted to take action when…