I have many issues with celebrity philanthropy. "Making poor people dance" is about right. I've done some work in this area, and I can tell you most celebrities aren't all that knowledgeable of the causes they champion. (At least the ones I know of. Madonna isn't one of them though.) Much like Kony, they're…

There's a flip side to this: people who see strife and start apologizing automatically for no reason because they think it'll diffuse the situation.

But he doesn't even do the "calling out" well either.

24 hour news channel. Filler, filler, filler, filler.

Exactly. When a detail is so glaringly obvious, I assume the other party has already FIGURED THAT OUT with their wee brain cells that I intentionally don't point it out.

Then he must think his viewers are idiot.

It's not just Chris Matthews. It's Meghan McCain, Toure, Chelsea Clinton, Karen Finney, Toure, Dave Weigel, Martin Bashir, Toure, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Toure, Luke Russert, Steve Kornacki, SE Cuppe, Toure, Dylan Ratigan...to name a few.

I know plus it's insulting to kids. "I'm unsure of whether or not I can make that lifetime commitment but I'm cool to reproduce with you*."

When I lived with my ex, I believed we didn't need that piece of paper to hold our relationship together. It wouldn't make me more committed or love him more. It was something to solidify our commitment, make it legal, etc. I honestly didn't think it mattered.

Ah yes. The show "Iconoclasts." Sundance Channel keeps using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

Yeah but that attitude will bite him in the ass later in life. My parents were quite similar. My dad wanted kids but looked at us as drains on his back account and broken stuff. Now that we're adults, he can relate better, but I wouldn't say I'm ever close to him. Never gonna happen that's for sure. It's a bit…

Oh he knew. He was remarking on a picture of her.

I once dated a guy who was a closeted racist. I didn't know it at the time. I'm half Italian, but I got all my American mother's fair skin and fine, light brown hair. My sister has olive skin with black hair and big dark eyes.

That's an interesting take. I think you're right. That strategy allows them to look like a "mature adult" complete with convenient excuses of why they can't have the thing they claim to want.

Here's one problem I've found in my own life. I've met these 40+ never married guys. I almost married one of them too. In the abstract, sure, they wanted kids. They wanted to change diapers and throw around a football. Sure.

I love how when men do this, they never get grief. But if we do it, we're controlling harpies who just want to have a baby before the biological clock stops.

Oh but you can build up your portfolio with whatever it is you do for us. That's the same thing as a paycheck, RIGHT? Ugh.

It's problematic because if she'd been a man, all of her stuff would have been in the opening paragraphs. Check out a man's bio. The wife/kids thing is almost always at the bottom. And rarely does a man get, "He coached a little league team, brewed his own beer, AND he was the leading expert in his field!"

"And what does obituaries editor William McDonald have to say?"

That's because charities aren't regulated by the government. I could set up a charity today for the Knitting Grandmas of Ethiopia and give myself 95% of the proceeds. The only bad thing that would happen to me is that I'd get a low rating at Charity Navigator but that's it. I saw a vets charity that had 93%…