Excluded middle

Woman admits her sexual orientation

Thanx to sciamanna

Stingy bastards

Not paying the minimum wage in the UK

Thanx to andrewducker

Getting meta and meta

I'll get the bad news out of the way first. Saul Austerlitz's Sitcom (a history thereof) does not devote a chapter to The Addams Family; in fact it mentions the show only once, in a parenthetical, not distinguishing it from *feh* The Munsters.

Otherwise, it's good, tracing 24 other shows, with particular attention to cross-reference and self-reference. The New Yorker discusses the book and how All in the Family changed things by complicating our reaction to the characters. When All in the Family came out, Old Leftist John Leonard hated it because it acted as if the white working class were full of people stupid enough to take it seriously and root for Archie, which is what happened.

Standards

The US Army has a new set of rules for what black women's hair should look like. It would have benefited immeasurably if they had deigned to ask black women.

Thanx to Feministing