If you've ever told Swiper, "Swiper, no swiping!" you MUST watch this "movie trailer" for an action-packed, live-action, Dora the Explorer movie:

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It cracked me up, big time.

I just read about a four-year-old girl, McKenna May, who has spent half her life battling leukemia. The Make-A-Wish Foundation offered to fund her wish, a trip to Disney World. Unfortunately, they can only pay for the trip if both parents agree, and her idiot father didn't. He said that she wasn't "sick enough" to deserve it, despite the fact ( Read more... )

With all the talk in the media lately about a certain actor who shall remain nameless [*cough-TomCruise-cough*], his controlling behavior toward his soon-to-be-ex-beard-wife, and his whack-job religious beliefs, I reflected on the fact that I've had zero interest in watching any of his movies in a very long time. (I would however, probably watch ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or is the name "Renesmee"--the name of the vampire baby in Twilight--one of the most hideous names ever bestowed on a baby girl? I think it's supposed to be a mash-up of Renee and Esme, but I can't seem to pronounce it any way other than "Renee-Smee", calling to mind images of a fat pirate in a striped shirt.


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Sister Wives is an American reality TV program about a Mormon* polygamist family consisting of 1 husband, 4 wives, and a whole passel of children. I don't watch it regularly, but I've caught an episode here and there.

( Here's why I have the warm fuzzies for the family right now )

Watched Criminal Minds tonight:

JJ was fierce! She kicked butt--literally! Threaten to kill her kid, and she'll tear you apart! And then she got to be a beautiful bride, d'aww.

And Prentiss defused the bomb--using the powers of her mind! No way was she leaving JJ's partner to blow up, not her.

The women of Criminal Minds were on the ( Read more... )

As I may have mentioned before, both of my daughters have been involved in Girl Scouts, but I refused to allow my son to join the Boy Scouts. He asked to join once, but I had to refuse due the anti-gay membership policy of the Boy Scouts of the USA. (I was scrambling to find an alternative for him when I realized that if they didn't have a cookie ( Read more... )

You may not be able to access this video (it's on Comcast), but if you can, it's worth watching. Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report eulogizes Steve Jobs as only he can.

Update:That video is no longer available, but here is part of it on YouTube.

One of the communities in the LJ spotlight this week is ringer_tv, a community of fans for the new tv series, Ringer. The show has only aired one? episode so far, so I find it hard to believe it's such a thriving community that it caught the attention of the powers that be at LJ. I'd almost find it hard to believe that it already has such an active fandom ( Read more... )

How Bachmann Lost a Young Conservative
by Michael Smerconish, Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist ( Read more... )