The Manolo, he is very wise.

For he has recommended the Dress A Day blog, and the Dress A Day blog is run by our friend orthoepy, who is most awesome and brilliant in the way of the dresses and of the words. Yay Manolo!

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on

Subject to every doubt that can retard
Or fling it back upon an earlier time.

There are times when I wonder if the U.S. has been dropped through a wormhole into the 1950's.

Seriously. Look at the current craze for pencil skirts and spike heels. It's illegal for perfectly loving couples to be married and to have a child in some states. The charge of "unpatriotic" is levelled against those who dare to criticise the government. Not to mention being embroiled in land wars - plural - that we are fucking up royally whilst rattling our sabres at another country. And finally -

Cross burnings in North Carolina. Fucking hell.

Don't hang back with the brutes, y'all. Just don't.

edit: There also the matter of parents being forbidden to teach their child about Wicca, which happens to be their religion, but I'm inclined to look at that as a poor ruling by an uneducated judge. Either that, or it's a test case to see if this country really can be turned into a de jure theocracy...