* Daily Intel has some answers on why Alex Kuczynski's New York Times spread on her experience with a surrogate mother made her out to be a "vain," "self-centered" "Lady of the Manor" (really, check out the photo that ran with the story, it's a doozy). From NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt's column:
Kuczynski, who said [...]

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* Via Feministe: Taking your children to vote with you is adorable; homeless voters find obstacles at the polls.
* Slate's Trey Patterson remembers MTV video countdown "Total Request Live", set to take a "hiatus" this November:
TRL's signature moment came to pass one Thursday in [...]

* Megan at Jezebel tells dudes "How Not to Get it On":
Don't pre-emptively tell me you have a small penis.
Don't text me on a Tuesday night after midnight "I could totally eat ur puss now if u r interwssetted." I'm not.
Don't ask if it's okay to fuck me up the ass because you don't have [...]