Editor’s note: With all the bad news out there, why not bid farewell to the week with an easy-to-digest roundup of our favorite forward looking stories from the fine folks at The Stimulist. Leave a comment below and let us know what you think.

Twitter has done it again. In the same vein as the youtube wedding dance phenomenon, a 28-year-old living with his crass and cantankerous 73-year-old father has somehow amassed, with only 21 tweets, 148,333 followers. Yes: thousands of people tune in to hear embittered gems like “Your brother brought his baby over this morning. He told me it could stand. It couldn’t stand for sh*t. Just sat there. Big let down.” Not exactly the subject of optimistic paternal encouragement, Justin of Sh*t My Dad Says, isn’t bothered by his father telling him he amounts to nothing. Au contraire! Justin says of his father, “He is awesome. I just write down sh*t that he says.”

In the event that you’ve made it out of your parents’ house without an unreasonable amount of emotional scarring, don’t assume you’re in the clear–particularly if you’ve got an X chromosome–because pharmaceutical companies have news for you: You’re dysfunctional, specifically sexually. That’s the subject of Liz Canner’s new “Orgasm Inc.,” a documentary that scrapes up the dirt on pharmaceutical companies who, instead of remedying our illnesses, are inventing them. While the female orgasm might be an elusive creature, it is not, by any means, on the endangered species list. Female Sexual Dysfunction? It’s nothing a little TLC can’t fix.

When the last thing women need is to feel abnormal, fashion mags are usually not the place to start.  But that could be changing…maybe.  Size 14 Lizzi Miller graced page 194 of Glamor magazine last month, and many women rejoiced. She wasn’t airbrushed, she was slouching, and most importantly: she had a little paunch.  That little paunch generated an onslaught of reader approval from women who were pleased to see a normal woman, albeit in the closing pages of the magazine. Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive says the response from the magazine’s audience will definitely influence the way the magazine proceeds. A lovely thought, but we’ll believe it when Kate Moss is on page 194.

Sometimes, in fact, when you want to see change, you have to do it yourself. Last week, Elie Mystal proposed a student loan bailout plan whereby the federal government would rescue floundering graduates from their financial ruin. An optimal solution, but likely to happen soon? Probably not. If you want to avoid suffocating beneath credit card statements, it’s a safer bet to figure out your student spending than rely on a bailout. Rohit Chopra of The Stimulist has a few tips on who to talk to, where to sign, and what it means to live beyond your means.

On a final note, as we bid a sad farewell this week to America’s liberal lion Ted Kennedy, it’s fitting to revisit what the word “liberal” meant back before it was synonymous (to some) with anarchy. “Marked by generosity ; openhanded; given or provided in a generous and openhanded way…” Ted Kennedy was the epitome of a word that originally meant to be liberal in love.