Bad

Celebrities have got some nerve. Just because they're ogled by readers of People magazine and viewers of E! Entertainment Television, they think they've got some special license to ruin the lives of children. Namely the lives of their own children ( Read more... )

The Bad (or seemingly so)


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It's unanimous: everyone wants the kids a-reading. If children don't put their noses into books, they'll probably stick them into coke lines and grow up to be Robert Downy, Jr. or an SNL cast member. But it's hard these days. Book prices are skyrocketing. Even the natural beneficence of caring celebrity matrons like Madonna is being sabotaged ( Read more... )

Johnny Cash & John Ritter in one day. Whew. Ritter was too young, and Cash was near and dear to this young heart. Still, I find it curious that much less fanfare has ushered out the guy that nearly killed us all.

Edward Teller, like Icarus before him, was a man in love with the sun. In fact, he was so utterly smitten by ol' Sol that he would ( Read more... )

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I do not like to hear my language twisted, however slightly, when the sole motivation of the twister is to sound pretentiously authoritative. Example ( Read more... )

I've noticed that I've been very slack about using the LJ-only tags. I'll make up for that now.

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I'll let the silly saga end. I wanted tutti frutti, but the public likes vanilla. And besides, it's been too much work for such mixed response.


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