"Given the recent stateside popularity of the espadrille…the evening slip-on has big potential for a life outside the opera house." —GIRL. NO.

You people have lost your minds over the iPad: "Your grandma will embrace it. Your aunt will embrace. Your cousins. Your kids. Everyone who doesn't have a fucking clue about computers and don't want to learn and don't care. Everyone will jump into this new era of computing. Everyone." I can happily admit it is gorgeous. And yet. We are gaga for a thing with an application that delivers a New York Times front page that only displays four whole stories? A thing that's just like reading a book, a book with DRM encoding, so you don't actually own it, and also book that weighs 1.5 pounds. (The [...]

It's a lesson I have had to learn the hard way myself. If you have to explain your coinage parenthetically, then your coinage just isn't working. So while maybe I will follow every person on this Inspiring Black Women of Twitter list (but not Terry McMillan, because, no), I will definitely not accept @aisha1908 being described as a member of the growing ranks of "twactivists (twitter activists)."

IMPORTANT HAROLD FORD UPDATE: He's actually not a carpetbagger! He's just a Waverly Inn-going, Morning Joe-doing, banker-loving, Hamptons-chilling overclass cretin with the world's worst financial policy ideas. As you were!

CHILLING sentences: "Let me confirm that Sam Raimi is set to direct Robert Downey Jr in Disney's extravagant 'Wizard of Oz' 3D prequel." Sam Raimi, retooling your childhood, stomping on the magic, killing your dreams. Etc. IN 3D, no less. He's a Freddy Krueger in all the dimensions currently available!