Mirror Mirror on the wall

Who's the fairest of them all?

A man adjusts his built, as he recently lost weight (Bark/Flickr).

Thirty-five percent of the British men who responded to a recent survey said they'd trade a year of their life to achieve that goal weight.

Whoa ... Seriously?

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Collection or curiosity? You decide.

The Cat in the Hat! Green Eggs and Ham! Horton Hatches the Egg!

All may familiar titles to those who pored over Dr. Seuss books as a child.

But none may be more familiar with the man behind the whimsical tales than Dr. Charles Cohen, a dentist based out of Massachusetts who has transformed his small three-day practice into a Seuss database of sorts.

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Free speech organization FIRES back at SHSU, calls police action 'unconstitutional'

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In what is turning out to be a real news saga, FIRE, or the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, sent Sam Houston State University president Dana Gibson, Ph.D., a letter today denouncing a university police officer's actions yesterday in the campus' free speech zone.

(The letter is below jump)

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My fabulous fashion picks for this year's Emmy Awards

I'll be honest. Something about celebrity award ceremonies seems slightly pretentious to me. Don't stars get enough of a reward for starring in the latest blockbuster or having a chart-topping hit single with their enormous pay checks? Why do we have to fawn over them publicly once more?

I believe my Dad said it best when he wrote.

I find award shows boring and pompous. Can you imagine a world where normal people give each other awards and tell each other how great they are? On second thought, that might actually make the world a better place.

Nevertheless, the day after any award ceremony is always fun one. It's time for the claws to come out and the fashion police to frisk actors who at one time seemed invincible.

Going against the grain, I'd like to take a moment to in this blog identify those celebrities who in my eyes emerged fashionably victorious last night.

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Toddlers, tiaras and tattoos ... oh my!

Photo courtesy of Babble Blog

Most people would agree that something about TLC's show Toddlers and Tiaras is just fundamentally wrong.

Three-year-old girls strut down a runway wearing caked on make up and bikinis. Their mothers live vicariously through them, and contestants often feel pressured to succumb to society's ideals of beauty (See a girl about 4-years-old forced to wax her eyebrows below).

But the show's a hit. Why? Well, it's like that bad traffic accident on the interstate. Nobody can look away, and often times I think we can relate.

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