Why Blossom? Why?

Smart-as-anything Mayim Bialik submits to the humiliation of “What Not To Wear.”

And we are left wondering why.

And thanks, Bitch magazine, for the link.

Play “Which Judge Said This?”

At Firedoglake.

Is a hyphenated last name like a third nipple?

We’ve talked about last names before (at least I think we have, but maybe that’s only the conversation I’m having in my head).

Whatever. Sometimes, couples lean toward egalitarianism and in order to mesh a little bit but not let any one take the upper hand, they hyphenate their last names.

Bad idea, if you’re flying, according to this.

When the truth is in poor taste…

…do we avoid the truth?

Naomi Wolf wants to know, in regard to the detainee photos the president doesn’t want to release.

Staying together for the checkbook

The New York Times — which is always right — says that people are staying married because they can’t afford to divorce — but that doesn’t mean families are any happier.

I find the concept of “happy family” to be a fluid thing. Not all families are happy all the time. Some are happy some of the time just as some are miserable some of the time.

If you asked me if my family is happy, I’d say yes, because I think we mostly are. If you asked one of my sons, you might get a different answer, depending on which family you mean, and what day you ask.

What about Lt. Uhura’s glass ceiling?

Light-years later, she’s still answering calls.

What’s up with that?

Thou shalt not Twitter in church

A new commandment, by Elissa Cooper, at Christianity Today.

As I only tweeted (Twittered?) once (and I didn’t inhale and I didn’t like it much), I have no great feelings on this. It would appear one would be distracted if one is typing while someone else is talking.

Scientology and Wikipedia

Here’s one view of Wikipedia’s blocking people at Church of Scientology computer IP addresses from contributing to Wikipedia. A Wikipedia spokesman said church members were changing entries to fit their agenda – a “conflict of interest,” the spokesman said.

How this is different from the conflict of interest shown by, say, Diebold on entries about their voting machines is unclear.

Pay special attention to this:

In August 2007, Wikipedia Scanner found that edits via the company’s IP addresses occurred to Diebold’s Wikipedia article, removing criticisms of the company’s products, references to its CEO’s fund-raising for President Bush and other negative criticism from the Wikipedia page about the company in November 2005.

Here’s more on Scientology, from the Scientologists, themselves. Here’s more on Scientology from, well, Wikipedia.

And thanks, Tod, for the head’s up.

I’m not a poetry lover, but

this is quite nice.

Don’t try this at home

Unless, of course, you’re Damien Walters.