Pygmania

Jill Dillard (née Duggar) recently birthed her first child, a boy named Israel David Duggar. Emma conscientiously shared the happy news and requested my opinion on this name choice. I really had no comment on the matter. My only form of response was to begin speculation on what Israel's little brothers and sisters will be called; in the course of making my list of name possibilities, it struck me that such content truly ought to be housed on vospymies rather than hidden in an email thread... predicted + suggested given names for future babies of the Dillard variety [  f   m n  ] : predicted: suggested: irish ;  ireland innuit indiana imagine infinity identity independence isabella isaac isaiah/isaias ian ida ivy; ivory isadora iris ice-cream i nferno india immigrant icon impulse irregardless implication itchy iGod ...

http://nymag.com/news/features/childhood/ Some of my favorites are Barbara Walters, Richard Price, Spike Lee, and, of course, Paris & Nicky Hilton ------- [ANGIEDIT] Thanks for posting this.  There are too many good quotes to keep adding as comments, so I'll re-publish below.  Some are just amusing/interesting, others, extremely resonant (for me). My mother and I are immigrants, and I was oblivious. We didn’t have TV, we didn’t have radio. My mother was afraid of the outside world—she survived the concentration camps, so of course you’re clannish. She stuck me in the yeshiva. The problem was I couldn’t speak English. One of the first phrases I learned was, “What, are you stupid? Can’t you speak English?”     [Gene Simmons] We used to take the subway from Brooklyn up to Yankee Stadium. It seemed like I was going to Canada.  [ Rudy Giuliani ] The life of a kid in New York City, it’s about making your circles bigger and bigger around your home. W...