Yahoo! News reports that Alec Baldwin is going to pay for 18-year-old Private Resha Kane’s entire college tuition after completing her military duty in Iraq. He was so moved by a news story he read about her last day in the states with family and friends, that he tracked Kane’s mother down in the discount store where she worked.

Baldwin has been very vocal about his opposition to the war, but still supports the troops. He is set to meet with the Kane family in Mohave Valley next week to present the check in person.

I love Alec Baldwin. I had the chance to meet him a few months ago in the office where I worked, and he was very nice and handsome and quirky. And now, I love him even more! It’s great to see people with gobs of money get personal and give back every now and then.

If you want to help out the troops, Soldiers’ Angels is a great place to donate money, letters and simple care packages.

If you want to check out Alec at his best, watch this classic clip from SNL. It’s Schweddy-licious!

While all of my friends are drinking heavily and basking in the scorching sun in Acapulco, I’m home with the ‘rents. Not only am I spending my spring break with my parents, but I have a butt-load of school work to catch up on and to make matters worse, I can’t even drink with my friends from home. Why no drinking, you might ask? It’s called a scary dose of reality, otherwise known as (possible) alcoholic hepatitis.

Last Sunday I was admitted to a local hospital (in my college area) due to increasingly painful bursts of pain that would shoot from my stomach, up into my chest, and through my back. It all started on Friday night when I arrived home from work around 1:30am—keep in mind I had been battling a horrific hangover all day and night. First as a dull, but incredibly uncomfortable pain in my upper abdominal region, I attempted to fall asleep and hope for the pains to be gone by morning; instead, they only worsened… and worsened… and worsened. Read More »

When I heard that Coca-Cola was riding the green tea wave and coming out with Enviga, a drink which claims to burn calories, I was ready to hop on board.

I mean, I’ve always been a fan of zero calorie anything. But negative calories? Bring it on. Enviga is a sparkling green tea drink that’s supposed to increase calorie burning through those snazzy green tea extracts I’ve heard so much about in Shape, the lovely caffeine of my late night red-bulls, and other naturally active plant micronutrients.

I was ready to stock up on Enviga and finally order a pair of skin-tight Cheap Monday jeans straight from those slender Swedes. I mean, Cheap Monday jeans, are only $65 dollars. Plus, each can of Enviga is only about $1.50. What a deal. According to the lab coats over at Coca Cola, it takes 3 cans of the stuff to burn 100 calories. Read More »

I have no problem shaving my armpits. Or my legs (despite the fact that my tiny shower forces me to contort my body into acrobat like stances to reach my limbs). But the one thing I keep going back and forth on is The Bush.

(Nope. Not our president. Or his dad.)

I never used to shave down there. It never occurred to me to do so. It was natural, right? My innocence in the matter was shattered one night freshman year, when a few male friends began weighing the pros and cons of “bare vs. bush”.

At first, I was appalled. There were men who really thought natural was gross?

“Um, have you ever watched porn?” one dude asked me, “you ever see any bush in porn?”

“I’m sorry” I replied, “I wasn’t aware porn dictated how girls are supposed to look. Guess that means I need to get giant boobs. And a rose tattoo on my ankle!”

That particular discussion fizzled (mostly due to my indignation and a few pillows I may or may not have thrown in the direction of certain dudes) but I’ve been thinking about it ever since. And while I think completely bare is weird, I’ve tried lots of different variations over the years. Read More »

Jakey! Say it isn’t so!

According to the one and only gossip blog Perezhilton.com, Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are “100% dating”.

I’m seriously going to cry.

I love that boy, and every day he’s single is another day we could possibly bump into each other on the streets of New York and fall instantly, deliriously in love.

Have you seen this boy’s lips? His eyes?!

If I was just a tiny bit crazier I’d dedicate my life to following him around the world, camp outside his hotel rooms and write him original love songs with my own blood.

I’m just saying…I like him a lot.

And all those other rumors, well, I don’t believe them one bit. Since when did having big, beautiful eyes and real tight friendships with other dudes make you gay? So he likes spandex.

It’s aerodynamic, people!

Who is hotter?

Regina Spektor: “Fidelity”

You know we’ve entered a whole new kind of generation when there’s an emerging medical problem resulting in the advancement of our gizmos and gadgets.

ivillage.com reports the case of “Blackberry Thumb” – a condition in which the tendons in our thumbs are strained by the overuse of PDA’s. While some doctors say they’ve treated Blackberry Thumb, others say it’s bogus. The APTA, or the American Physical Therapy Association, even offers tips on how to “properly” use a PDA. Whether the B Thumb exists or not, overusing a Blackberry is just like overusing a video game controller or any other hand held device that could obviously lead to some type of arthritis down the road.

But the threat of Blackberry Thumb or any other kind of Technology-Induced Thumb obviously won’t keep our generation from using any of them. We laugh in the face of Blackberry Thumb. Our digits will remain strong and defiant. It obviously isn’t affecting the one maniac who keeps voting for Sanjaya.