Here's where I shamefacedly admit that I really liked Julia Roberts in Baja Oklahoma and Mystic Pizza before she hit it big.

Actually, I tend to enjoy her when she's interacting with other actresses that I like, like Lesley Ann Warren, Lili Taylor, and Sally Field. It's when she's the maniacally grinning and laughing center of the universe for a movieful of men that I can't stand her.

Well, yeah. If I refused to listen to everything that made me twitchy, I'd miss out on a lot of stuff I love.

Jesus Christ.

Want to be class president? Not if you're black, in one Miss. school

If you’re black and a student at one public middle school in Mississippi, you can’t run for president – only whites need apply.

Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Miss., has segregated its elected class positions by race, according to a memo sent home with children at the school last week that was obtained by NBC News.

The memo was first brought to light when Brandy Springer, a mother of four children, contacted blogger Suzy Richardson, founder and editor of the blog mixedandhappy.com. It was also reported by Gawker.

“My [eighth-grade] daughter came home from[Nettleton] school telling me that she wanted to try out for the school reporter, but it is only open to black students,” Springer wrote Richardson. “They told her ‘she should run for class president, that was open to only white students.'”

The memo indicates that only white students can be president of the school’s eighth grade, while only black students can be vice president.

In seventh grade, whites are the only ones who can be both president and vice president, while the only position a black student at Nettleton can apply for in sixth grade is that of the class reporter.

American pants, and apparently no skirts either. I dunno. The host is a hippie friend. I think I am going in sarong. I think Bob is going like Risky Business.

This is so fraught with technicalities. Because I'm sure no shorts either. Bloomers? Dresses? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?

I just don't get Replacement Guy. I hope this doesn't bode badly. Simple web site clickthrough exercise, and I can tell by looking at his results that they make no sense. Now I have to send him back to the drawing board, and I look bad for not having quality-checked him earlier.

For some reason, I have very little difficulty with ugliness in Eminem's lyrics. He's so very frank about "here's my dirty id" and "thanks for the more-than-free therapy" that I just ain't mad at him. But I do look askance at Rihanna. Very double-standard of me.

So, once everyone in this school district has been shitcanned, where will the kids have to be bussed to attend classes?

For some reason, I have very little difficulty with ugliness in Eminem's lyrics. He's so very frank about "here's my dirty id" and "thanks for the more-than-free therapy" that I just ain't mad at him. But I do look askance at Rihanna. Very double-standard of me.

Yeah, I am kinda the same. I don't know why. It just is.

I mind less someone who's not trying to pretend that they aren't awful. (Which I just auto-typed as "awesome" so maybe I should use that word less, too!)

Jesus Christ.

Want to be class president? Not if you're black, in one Miss. school

...What the FUCK?

I'm firmly in denial about that school president article. I read it a number of times, and IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. You can't do that. Not in 2010. You just can't.

I find Eminem unpleasant to listen to from a vocal standpoint as well as the questionable lyrics and douchey personality aspects. And my jaw dropped at the idea of him and Rhianna collaborating on a song about domestic violence. But, the refrain is the best singing I've ever heard from her.

I had to throw out my George Foreman grill this morning. My attempt to clean it was derailed last night by the realization that the smell it put out when I turned it on wasn't so much "old grease" as "burning mouse poop," and no amount of cleaning would ever be enough.