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    Good Retouch, Bad Retouch

    Adobe’s Photoshop is used by graphics editors to manipulate images for commercial use and to put silly antlers on the cat for the family Christmas card. (Seriously, I googled “Photoshop cat Christmas card” and found that image. Oh internet! You never disappoint!)  But fashion editors, celebrities and magazine editors have all been subject to criticism [...]

    Miss Manners disapproves of the response “Nunya.”

    This past Sunday after church I was staggering, zombie-like, out of the sanctuary (it had been a bad night with the teething baby. Who was teething. And being kind of a baby about it.), when a gentleman whom I will call Dave (because that is his name) approached me.

    “Are you losing weight?” he asked, his [...]

    Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels

    I can haz pimento?

    Last week Kate Moss enraged virtuous eaters of balanced diets everywhere by telling Woman’s Wear Daily that her motto is “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” How dare this skinny woman encourage herself not to eat? How morally decayed. How grossly irresponsible. Doesn’t she know that size zero women have [...]