8. If you stay up to date on the latest gossip, I’m sure you’ve seen the recent Facebook group trying to get him replaced as UCLA’s graduation commencement speaker. Do not try to make him feel better by saying, “Don’t worry, James. My peers hate me, too!”
7. Refrain from all of the following: ripping your clothes off, ripping his clothes off, touching him at all, telling him you want to have his babies, screaming that you love him, screaming that you think he’s hot, screaming in general, crying, stuttering and shaking, passing out, staring at him with your mouth open, etc. I know a lot of these will be involuntarily, but try your best.
6. Don’t ask him where he tans. We know you saw his pasty white badunkadunk in the pool scene in Milk. [NSFW image here.]
5. He’s a nice guy. Don’t take advantage of that by having him talk on the phone to your entire cheerleading squad or write out autographs to your sister, mother, grandfather, best friend in Mongolia and Great Aunt Helga.
The other four after the jump.
Culture-war compromise is a hot topic right now, most of the talk being pegged to President Obama's unwillingness to take activist positions on sensitive issues. (At least when people are looking.) The president's talk of "abortion reduction" seems to be an olive branch to the right: if we all agree that abortion is bad and we want less of it, well, hey, that's something we can work on as a big, concerned family.
I'm all for abortion reduction, and for pro-life activists getting their sights set on the right goal: less abortions, via whatever means necessary, not overturning Roe just because that's what we've all been fixated on for two decades now. Also, if you're a conservative still trying to oppose abortion and contraception/sex education at the same time, then give it up already. Clearly, the message about birth control is not getting across to those who need to hear it — over 70% of American women who have abortions don't use it — and figuring out creative ways to get these women to prevent unwanted pregancy is crucial to solving our abortion problem.
But as Lisa Miller's Newsweek column suggests, the abortion-reduction hand-holding is mostly a delusion. There's a "culture-war industry on both sides," as one source says; the right's moral beliefs won't settle for half-way solutions, and, let's not forget, abortion is the holy sacrament of some feminists, and the remnants of that demographic won't part easily with their great victory.
Apple is stepping off its pedestal April 7th to provide its 10 million iTunes songs free from DRM entanglement. Finally! But of course there’s no free lunch here. While every other store in the country is advertising vast sales, iTunes is raising their prices. Customers will pick up the extra 30% price increase with three variable price levels: 69 cents 99 cents and $1.29.
While Apple announced this change in January at the last MacWorld Expo, it wasn’t until last week the Los Angeles Times reported the April 7th switch date. Unfortunately, Paul Resnikoff, publisher of Digital Music News says labels will favor the $1.29 price tag.
The World Trade Center replacement will open in 2014, dropping the name "Freedom Tower" for "One World Trade Center," much to the annoyance of former Governor George Pataki. The Port Authority says they're having better luck selling tenants on "One World Trade Center," but Pataki shoots back that it's about more than marketing. Daily Intel has a good point:
"It strikes us that when the building opens as scheduled in 2014, after ten years of thinking of it that way, people will call it the Freedom Tower no matter name what a bunch of marketers use in pitch meetings — kind of like how people still say they're going to take the "1/9" somewhere even though the 9 train no longer exists."
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