* Slate intrudes on the Sexist beat, telling you how to donate a kidney through your vagina (”Good news: You can now get a kidney from a vagina. . . . The kidney doesn’t start in the vagina, of course”), and asking whether sharing a bed with your baby is a good idea (Answer: No).

* Progress! DC Nearlyweds refers to “bridesmaids” as “bridesmaids,” not as an acronym shared by “Bowel Movement”!

*Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis goes wild, evades taxes, gets arrested. Say hi to Daschle for us! [via Feministing].

* A 26-year-old Montgomory County couple was indicted for prostituting minors in Gaithersburg and Washington: “U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein says the two created a sex-trafficking scheme where the three girls were drugged using cocaine, PCP, and marijuana or alcohol before having sex in Montgomery County or D.C.”Lloyd Royal and Angela Bentolila are also accused of forcing the girls to sell cocaine, forcing them to have sex with Royal, and using their home and car for prostitution.

* Photo by Trevor Blake.

Earlier this month, I called out local bride-to-be website DC Nearlyweds (which appears to be, in general, a lovely resource for aspiring brides) for employing the acronym “BM” to refer to their dear bridesmaids. Last week, one nearlywed struck again with this post detailing the arrival of her “BM” dresses:

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* Tiger Beatdown questions, answers why she blogs—and lets readers in on a haunting truth all opinion bloggers must endure!: “What I thought privately was often dramatically at odds with what I posted.”

* Evil Slutopia gives the smack-down treatment to Ann Coulter’s recent remarks on single mothers—their kids grow up to be strippers, thugs, etc. The more you know! Wait, who is the scary blond lady? Why does anyone bother with her anymore? Boring.

* Meghan McCain blogs again! Her friends are having babies and she gets to go the White House next week for a day for Barack Obama to make nice with her dad. McCain Blogette will return again in earnest in February, when hopefully McCain can spend more time developing an independent young voice (conservative or otherwise), less time posting Weezer’s “Pork & Beans.”

* Stop what you’re doing! D.C. Nearlyweds provided you faulty bridesmaid dress advice last week! Do not buy your bridesmaid dresses online from J Crew! “I realized the dresses were NOT the color they appeared online,” wrote one nearly-wed. Don’t get me wrong, they are pretty dresses, but they were an orangey pink, and our wedding colors are wine, raspberry, and champagne.” My God. I hope it’s not too late.

* This Thursday: Proceeds from the Homo Hotel Happy Hour will benefit Gays and Lesbians Opposed to Violence (GLOV) The monthly “4H” club will be held at the Carlyle Suites, at 1731 New Hampshire Ave. NW, at 5:30.

Photo by trialsanderrors.

Because I am a riddle wrapped in an enigma, I frequent a blog called “DC NearlyWeds,” a coterie of local pre-brides who while away their dwindling singledom by posting on the Internets about their betrothals. In my research of this Web log, I’ve found this disturbing trend: Many of these single ladies whose men have put a ring on it favor calling their bridesmaids “BMs.”

One blogger asks if her BMs ought to pay for their own makeup. Half of this blogger’s BMs have already bought their dresses. Another blogger seeks something yellow, like the “BM dresses,” for her flower girl. Yet another expounds on a BM who has had gastric bypass surgery!

This nickname ranks up there with the most humiliating of bridesmaid rituals: The intentionally unflattering pastel dresses, the scuttle to catch the bride’s bouquet, and now, sharing an abbreviation with “bowel movement.” Oh, the humanity.

Photo by mahalie