The "dress watch" is kind of over. You can wear a dive watch on a steel bracelet with everything and it will never look bad.

Wristwatch and wedding band are the only jewelry a man should wear. The watch should not have diamonds on it.

Yes. The lethal injection is far more barbaric than the guillotine. We've got this idea that the most merciful death is a death that appears peaceful and doesn't outwardly destroy the body.

Why does the nomination process need to be different. There really aren't that many people who are going to come forward and seriously argue that "Selma" was unambiguously among the five best-written, best-acted or best-directed films this year, and that the "snubbing" could only have invidious causes.

It wouldn't have been an injustice if DeVernay — or Clint Eastwood, or David Fincher or Christopher Nolan — had been nominated for best director instead of Tyldum or Miller. But it's not an injustice that Tyldum and Miller are nominated instead of those similarly deserving directors. It's a list of five, and not…

If Lee wasn't nominated because "Do The Right Thing" was considered radical in 1989, that's totally different than if he was shut out because the Academy didn't like black people. The Academy in 1989 was clearly willing to honor black people and to engage with stories about black people.

I'm saying that you can't say Spike Lee's exclusion from the nominations was motivated by racism when a number of black people and movies dealing with race were nominated that year.

Clint Eastwood has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director for "Unforgiven," "Million Dollar Baby," "Mystic River" and "Letters from Iwo Jima." These are probably the strongest films in a career of strong films. Whatever you think of him speaking at Republican National Conventions, "Unforgiven" is a…

There are five nominations for Best Director, and Anderson, Iñárritu and Linklater take three of them.

Sorry. I was thinking it also won Best Director, but Alfonso Cuaron won for "Gravity."

The year "Do The Right Thing" came out, "Driving Miss Daisy," "My Left Foot," "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Glory" dominated the Oscars.

Hollywood is extremely liberal. "Twelve Years A Slave" won everything last year.

Although there's a field of five in the directing and writing categories, and a field of 9 for Best Picture, there are three real contenders for the best film this year: "Boyhood," "Birdman" and "Grand Budapest Hotel."

This is some questionable research. First of all, it was conducted at the University of North Dakota, where the 25th-75th percentile SAT rankings are 470-590 for Verbal and 500-610 for Math, which is very low. By contrast, University of Florida's SAT medians are 580-690 Verbal and 590-690 Math.

So, you can't have this laptop hooked up to AC power and have an external USB mouse attached at the same time?

The problems with articles about "college students" or "recent graduates" is that they tend to assume all college students are similar, and all college degrees are of roughly equivalent value.

If you take a basic econ class, you learn that the point where supply meets demand is the equilibrium price.

I am pretty sure that the vast majority of the offensive messages originate from a very small percentage of men. Considering that OKCupid is so obsessed with statistics, you would think they would have developed mechanisms right now to help strain the signal from the noise.