Thank you. This is the only point that should be needed to be made to the "moar guns" crowd. Did they not see what happened when NYC policemen (trained and theoretically more prepared for their job to involve violence on a daily basis) confronted a gunman in midtown? 8 civilians nearby were injured! I know everyone…

My best friend is Catholic and consoles herself that she goes to a "liberal" Catholic Church here in Manhattan, an individual church that (supposedly) welcomes the gay and divorced, and *gasp* has a martini Thursday mass (how fun!) What she refuses to acknowledge is that be all that as it may, by attending and giving…

God, I loathe the Catholic Church.

Jesus. You're just trying to make my cry. And you succeeded. It's so funny, I saw Les Mis when I was a virginal 16 year old (who had read the book) and I sobbed at Little Fall of Rain... at 37, with a lot more mileage under my belt, I cry more easily at Bring Him Home and Empty Chairs....

Agreed completely and fully with everything you said.

Indeed. I practically needed an IV drip for lost fluids after this movie. And BTW, LOVE your username. My late father used to call one of his best friends an "ignorant slut" to much laughter...

I thought Jackman did amazingly with Bring Him Home, which for me is watershed. And Redmayne was the best Marius I have ever seen (because usually, as Madeleine says, he's a drip)- his Empty Chairs was perfect. And holy shit, Anne Hathaway, stealing the show. I found the movie perfect, which I worried about since I…

That was amazing! I heard him sing and went, what? Then realized. Then fell in love. NO ONE can do Valjean like Colm (in the stage production, which is decidedly different from movies where actually acting rather than just singing is required) and it was great to see him there. The movie was fucking amazing. Even…

Thank you for this. I instinctively was going to resist reading this play-by-play because I fucking LOVED the movie, it's in my top 5 ever, assumed you were going to be one of the pretentious critics (yes, Manhola Dargis, I hate you and have always hated you, you grad school film critic who always cares more about…

Thank you. I knew I could have Googled and gone down a wormhole, but knew someone(s) would have already have done the heavy lifting. Appreciate the response, very informative.

What are the arguments against making prostitution legal? Sincerely curious.

I agree. And I am in the same place you are, I think. I am very anti-gun- I personally don't ever want to fire one, let alone own one, so the notion that the solutions to our problems are for everyone to arm him/herself makes me shake with fury (also, that asshole Charlotte Allen makes me want to rip her limb from…

I agree with you, but I come up kind of empty at the idea of domestically abused women who buy legal firearms for protection having their names outed in the newspaper. Now, this is not the newspaper's issue per se, since her state makes all gun ownership a matter of public record... so now I guess I am slightly…

Totally. I feel conflicted and yet elated.

Yeah, I know. I just don't want our shitty-ass congresspeople to have any excuse for why they didn't arrive at some bipartisan place other than their general assholery. Also: I hate when well-meaning people do really pointless shit without thinking it through and/or actually trying to effect substantive change.

Hey WBC hate group petition signers, could we perhaps not distract our feckless government leaders with meaningless shit like this? Don't know if you've heard, but there's some other cliff-y shit going on that might need their attention...

Ugh, I hate Gloria Allread. It's gotten to the point where I *almost* instinctively root for whomever she goes up against.

Yeah, I didn't realize all of that, so I take back the snark. I am just conditioned to the celebrity need (more than breath) for a paparazzi shot.... Thank you for sharing and I am glad you are in a better place. Best wishes in 2013.

That's good to know, and perhaps I should take back the snark, it's just hard to assume sincerity from celebs who need paparazzi shots like they need to breathe.

Demi Lovato: translating the "if a tree falls in a forest, does anyone hear it" adage for the narcissistic and vapid.