Countdown • Only two hours to go until we peel back the cover of September’s Vogue and commence live blogging.  Join us at 8:00 p.m. Pacific, won’t you?  We’ll be going non-stop until we hit the back cover, except for coffee breaks and the half-hour when The Hills is on.  Team Lauren!

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[T-Bone]

Oh God. You must comment on Andre'. Is it awful? Does he drop names like one would drop a handful of greased marbles? Does he manage to mention his recent weight loss in the column again(you've already milked that cow, Andre')? Does he mention he personally inspired each designer's collection this season (and didn't get credit where credit was due)? Whose boring socialite's dinner did he attend THIS month (along with 20 of her other "closest" friends and confidantes)?

As for Plum Sykes, she is a bore. That is her real name, I believe. She has a sister named Lulubelle or Jemima or Annabelle or something else equally toffy and beddy, beddy English.

[Blurgle]

What fur is doing responsibly is feeding children in parts of the world where there is no other way to earn money except by fur trapping. People in these parts of the world have the choice: trap or see their kids go hungry. Moving is usually out of the question, since many of these places have no roads. Generally it's difficult to cough up $5,000 for a single one-way plane ticket when the entire family income is $8,000 a year.

Of course these children are not white, so PETA and most animal rights activists strongly believe they're worth much less than cute animals. It's nothing less than racism, and blatantly and disgustingly so: it's no coincidence whatsoever that anti-fur activism sprung into existence almost simultaneously with the transfer of the major North American and Russian fur companies out of white hands and into native hands. As soon as white people aren't the main economic beneficiaries of an industry, it's suddenly evil.

But as long as trendy, self-absorbed white Americans think an animal with big liquid eyes (that isn't a cow) is worth more than an living, breathing human child who is not white, anti-fur activism will continue.

[Buffy]

After reading all that...Team Lauren, indeed!