A couple years back the FTC decided to create the blurring guidelines for bloggers, stating that we must disclose what products we get for free when reviewing anything so as not to mislead our readers. I thought that was all fine and good. A bit silly considering that when you work at a magazine they send you over a lotion in a Gucci bag so that you will feature it and that never has to be disclosed, but I was fine telling my readers when I received something for free because it did seem to make sense. Now, Doctors are likely going to have to do the same! They are going to have to disclose financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies. This will hopefully lead to more honest medical care. How scary is that!? Your doctors may be getting paid thousands or even  millions of dollars a year to endorse a drug that they prescribe you and you never legally had the right to know this before! Seems silly that the law would have gone after bloggers first, is it just me? A bit more on the line with doctors…

Visit this New York Times article for the full story!

This is such a Christmas spirit story I don't even know what to say. A man gets mugged, offers the mugger his coat and then asks him to dinner. Read on!

I just read a super interesting article in the New York Times. It seems as if any day now we may have ways to tell (other than just suspecting that all celebs really do in fact have dark circles under their eyes) if a picture has been photoshopped. And in some countries it appears that they may require companies to disclose the level to which a photo has been altered! Check out the New York Times article to find out more! I think this would be a huge step in the right direction! Talk about unrealistic expectations! Not only do celebs have all day to primp and pamper but they have the ultimate workout and anti-aging tool–PHOTOSHOP! 

For the past year I have been the subject of endless tirades from angry meat eating friends telling me that I won't be as healthy if I cut meat and dairy out of my diet. Well to all of you I'd just like to say that although I have sat idly by and accepted that I will never change your minds (even though I know I'm right) here is proof in the Huffington Post explaining why you don't need animal protein to stay strong, why you don't need milk to have healthy bones and why you can get your omega 3's without eating fish!

I will be just as strong and healthy as my other vegan friends the Elephant and the Gorilla–and meat free! Read 'em and weep all you carnivores out there!

Check out this Vegan Myths Busted Article on the Huffington Post!

Go BLUE Forever! Thanks for giving Ohio a bad name, Casey! 

Netflix's recent price hike doesn't seem like such a great idea to me! Upon hearing the news I immediately went online and lowered my subscription! Basically they're charging now for you to use their streaming library to watch instantly. But have any of you ever used this? It's pretty terrible and most of the movies are available on the premium movie channels, which I already subscribe to! So what gives, right?

This is a great article from the Atlantic about why the Netflix price increase is such a stupid idea! I think it will def end up costing them!

It's about time New York! New York becomes the sixth state to legalize gay marriage in what has been an uphill battle! We are so happy to be part of a state to take this step towards equality! We hope to be attending some weddings soon! Hint, Hint!! 

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So you know you (ahem, I) love Clueless and today I was totally inspired by this Cher Horowitz quote, “Now that takes care of our minds and bodies, but we should do something good for mankind or the planet for a couple of hours.”

And have we got just the site for you!!! Our gay BFF contacted us to talk about going shopping this weekend a new social networking-esque site called Friendfactor. The way it works is that you go to the website (www.friendfactor.org) and then sign up (via a Facebook add in) and invite your gay and straight friends to join. As your gay friends sign up, you can click a button to “support” them. As soon as you become a supporter, the site will educate you about the current situation for gay rights in the state where your friend lives. Down the road, Friendfactor will even let you know when crucial issue votes or discussions are coming up in the city, state or federal governments around issues that affect all of our LGBT friends!

Even if you’re not a political activista (all those rallies and wooden posts can’t be great for a fresh mani), you can get educated about the issues that affect your gay friends (did you know you can be evicted in over 50% of states for being gay?!?!?!?!?). Getting smarter definitely never hurt anybody’s mani. And let’s be honest… we definitely would have bought that horrible polka mini last year if our gay BFF hadn’t been there to snatch it out of our hands, so we kind of owe him!