Yesterday I read this comment on Gawker about the victim in the Roman Polanski situation (bolding mine):

is it NORMAL or typical of a girl to have lost her virginity, taken quaaludes, and drank alcohol all on/before the age of 13 in the 1970s? she admitted to all three in the testimony. i know hollywood standards are not standard, but this girl ( Read more... )

Right now I'm reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics (the novel by Marisha Pessl), and though I am only on page 39, one thing has become clear already: this book is so hip I can hardly stand it. There are pages and pages of positive reviews at the front of my copy, and many of them are from writers and publications I respect. They're all, " ( Read more... )