Dad demands apology from Ann Coulter for using 'retarded' as an insult

No, it's called freedom of speech and she can say what she wants.

• The word "retard" simply means "to slow down", and it is vastly annoying that some people have decided to make it the poster child for political correctness gone wild . . . I use "retard" occasionally when writing about music composition, which is one of the contexts where it is highly useful, but t …

• @Smokey: I have heard of "plain style", and the first time I encountered it was in the late-1980s in a set of writing guidelines for user documentation designed for use by career federal bureaucrats, where these are the basic guidelines, and these guidelines exist because career federal bureaucrats  …

Reborn doll craze: Cute or creepy?

Cute

• It is no different from building model airplanes, collecting baseball cards, having a Lionel train set, collecting rare coins and postage stamps, sewing, knitting, playing golf (see note below), and so forth and so on . . . And it could be excellent play therapy for older women who are at risk of lo …