“What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decided you’re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo in the same place. And we’ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo. And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that somehow that’s a good way to rebel.”

President Obama • Kiboshing his daughters’ future attempts to rebel against him and Michelle. (via shortformblog)

(via shortformblog)

“I was going through my cursing stage,” she said. “I didn’t realize until my camp counselor at the end came up and said, ‘You know, you would have been best camper in your age group but you curse so much.’ And I was thinking, ‘Really. Was it that noticeable? And I thought I was being cool. Little did I know I lost ‘best camper.’ I didn’t curse again.”

WTF? Michelle Obama was an expletive-crazed 10-year-old ; )

The Washington Post

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Michelle Obama, Iran, the Oscars and religious hypocrisy As we mock Iran, and we should, for digitally doctoring photos of the first lady’s Oscar appearance, let us not forget our own nonessential censorship—especially, one could argue, when we do basically the same thing in the name of spiritual or religious purity. In 2002 then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, who the AP describes as “deeply religious,” had drapes installed—at the tax-payer expense of $8,000—to cover “two scantily clad statues” (one of which was the Spirit of Justice, pictured above) so he could speak in the Library of Congress’ Great Hall “without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures.” Now I’m off to HuffPo’s side boob section to see how they covered ; ) this story.

Michelle Obama, Iran, the Oscars and religious hypocrisy

As we mock Iran, and we should, for digitally doctoring photos of the first lady’s Oscar appearance, let us not forget our own nonessential censorship—especially, one could argue, when we do basically the same thing in the name of spiritual or religious purity.

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In 2002 then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, who the AP describes as “deeply religious,” had drapes installed—at the tax-payer expense of $8,000—to cover “two scantily clad statues” (one of which was the Spirit of Justice, pictured above) so he could speak in the Library of Congress’ Great Hall “without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures.”

Now I’m off to HuffPo’s side boob section to see how they covered ; ) this story.