Craft services, mostly. (That is the only reason I wanted to get into movies.)

Good lord. It's an article on race, for pete's sake. Kind of hard to play the race card. And I said personal, not emotional.Which I suspect you know quite well, since you're very carefully trying to paint me as something I'm not.

She didn't really contradict herself. Or, rather, the statement is not all that contradictory when you take personal preference into account. Having a goal doesn't mean it will be the expected goal. Plus, her body type won't ever really let her be "skinny". Thin, sure. For a lot of people, her body is too obscene (not…

Not really. It sounds like she wants to be back to where she feels most comfortable with her body (and it's different for everyone.) It's not just about psychological comfort, some of it is physical. I've been a size 2 and a size 16 and never felt physically "comfortable" when I was at my largest. My thighs chafed, my…

Yeah, that would be great, but they do not historically teach it at all. As everyone has been pointing out, here. Something had to be done to change that, and the Fed has enough trouble convincing states that they should spend money on schools in low-income areas, much less forcing better textbooks on them.

You're obviously hung up on the man's past, but let me try to spell it out for you. Malcom X is a great man who shows us the ability we all have within ourselves to change. Yes, at one point he was a violent misogynist. He then completely repented his ways and turned his life into a force for good. You obviously don't…

"I'm a simple man. 'Buy super cute running shorts for a dollar; sell for two,' that's my motto. It don't need to be more complicated than that."

I've read his autobiography. He was a violent youth. Unless I'm forgetting something, he pretty much never was violent once he was out of jail. He preached that we shouldn't turn down violence as a way to stand against power structures, but I don't think he got into physical altercations. He was absolutely a hero, and…

You are aware that Malcolm X repudiated the Nation of Islam, right? And that he came to advocate against violence, and that his wife- you know, the non human being- continued his work the rest of her life?

Like a lot of other things, his views on women changed dramatically later in life. He wrote of needing to undo the things he'd said and done regarding women in his youth. After his fallout with the Nation of Islam (which, remember, was greatly keyed by Elijah Muhammed's abuse of young women) he educated himself on…

I don't remember learning about Malcolm X in school at all (I'm Canadian and I didn't take American History, so my civil rights education wasn't very deep). I learnt about him from watching Malcolm X and then reading about him on the internet.

Tuskegee Airmen might be a step too far. We'll go with Who was Crispus Attucks?

My wife is a big-time, legit journalist, and she was appalled. Regardless if it was Cooper, or her producers, she said that the last question was the one that went a bridge too far — that Cooper should have said, "Bode, thanks, I know it's been tough on you and congratulations on a great performance."

It's a curiously conservative sentiment: things used to be better. Did they? Haven't they pretty much always been like this? Certainly on NBC, if it's a "concept pioneered and perfected...over the decades." I call bullshit on the idea that there was some kind of Golden Age of Olympics coverage on ABC or whatever.

This is why I'm afraid that the Michael Sam story will have a very long run. Teammates and opponents will continue to be asked the same questions in different forms until someone is dumb enough to answer it in a way that will warrant 2500 words from columnists around the country. Which ultimately will not do Sam any…

I hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back to get the Olympics broadcast by some other network next time. You'd think after the last summer Olympics NBC would've gotten its act together.

Cooper: Bodie, last question - you are now in the fetal position on the freezing snow after my first 4 questions - is it safe to say that Chilly is with you at this moment?

Kind of like how my children deal with me when they want something.

Cooper: [questions Miller about dead brother]

Remember when Jake Gyllenhaal came out in that cowboy skit? That was suh-weet!!