The looming head of Tammy Faye makes it, for me. Like a televangelist All-Powerful Oz. Read more

God's Gift to Music — repudiated. Read more

Barbie Roberts laughed. Read more

It's clearly a pragmatic move — and largely theoretical — but still progress... Read more

I do think under the circs they did a good job...I still question its existence, though! Read more

Yes! I'm glad you caught that! Read more

Hey — he specializes in the unexpected! Well, he and MTV. Read more

Well, he doesn't appear to wear those pants the rest of the time! But ditto on the chapeau. Read more

The odd thing is, all the other boys at his school do appear to be incredibly handsome and mature-looking! Maybe it's just the ones MTV chose... Read more

Oh, I'm glad they bring them comfort! Read more

It's such a hard question, because so many of those taboos — many of which need to exist — do so because men are simply stronger and more powerful...and here is a case where they were literally the same size. So, philosophically, it's an interesting dilemma — but you're right, he handled it well. Bieber could learn a… Read more

It could have been offensive, framed differently: but he handled it as well as possible under the circumstances, and clearly her family agreed. I thought that was also a classy move on her dad's part. Read more

Wow, thanks for the perspective! One can only hope that aspect has shifted somewhat...and it makes me admire this girl's achievment all the more! Read more

Nicely put. And I think we need to stop thinking it's ok for women to hit men — something I've written about before here. Read more

True. A lot of the tips we got were very exercised, which seems plain odd when you read the story and see how it was handled on both ends. Read more

I think that's a good point, not at all inappropriate. Read more

Yes, it was a reference to the picture! And I mentioned the anniversary in the firts post on it, likewise the untimely passing of Nigel ;) Read more

I wondered if this was an attempt to win over that segment of the populace...since one presumes there'd be much overlap with the die-hard Archers followers. In fact, I even wonder if Linda's wholesale embrace of Camilla might have been deliberate in that regard... Read more

I think that's an important point! It plays into easy stereotypes about Texas, instead of taking a chance to show the actual diversity and nuance of a place. Read more

This is what I was thinking: WHITHER THE PUBLICISTS? I mean, shouldn't he have some stock answer for any tricky questions? On the other hand: will this hurt his popularity one iota? I'm guessing nope. Read more