What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, but Are Those Contacts Risky?
Young women have been copying Lady Gaga’s wider-than-life eyes, but the contact lenses are contraband, and doctors are concerned.

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Frank Rich of the New York Times reminds us in his column this week that John McCain once told a horrible, awful joke in public regarding Hilary Clinton, Janet Reno, and Chelsea Clinton (yes, young Chelsea).

( McCain's tasteless, public Clinton/Reno joke )

"We’re hoping he picks an idiot as vice president."

- Mike Sweeney, head writer on "Late Night with Conan O’Brien", on the difficulties of satirizing Barack Obama.

(the original article can be found here)

From an article in today's New York Times, A Stir, but No Crisis, From Principal's Gender Change:
But Renee McCormick said her daughter Nicole had not returned to the school this year, in part because of the principal. "It’s a horrible influence for the kids," she said. And Michael Locasio, who owns a tattoo parlor in a neighboring town, complained ( Read more... )

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English 25% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
What Kind of
American English
Do You Speak?
So it may look like I'm jumping on the "What Kind of American English Do You Speak?" bandwagon a little late here, but actually I took the quiz on September 16, 2005. So I was a pioneer in ( Read more... )