But, according to the Secret, if the Sudanese would simply put out more positive energy to the universe, they wouldn't keep attracting all that poverty and starvation and brutality and genocide and whatnot.

"Love is the only shocking act left on the planet." ???
What about the contestant on "Flavor of Love" who took a crap on the living room floor? I think that's much more shocking than falling in love.

I saw the abstinence werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

This couldn't be worse than his role in "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton." When he accosts his romantic rival on the toilet to tell him about his love interest's six different kinds of smiles - wow, that was truly the low point in romantic history.

Love, Actually had some decent parts (i.e. the washed-up rocker) mixed in the with the lame, cliched parts. This movie looks more uniformly lame.

This ain't no thinkin' thang….
is an actual country music song. (I don't know the artist.) It might be the perfect song for Wrangler's next commercial.

To quote a Far Side Cartoon….
"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever THINK!?"

No, but I do like the Shel Silverstein poem where the guy puts together the perfect outfit, except that he forgets his pants.

Nicely put, professor.

That's the difference between a scumbag and a douchebag. The guy who actually kidnapped and raped the girl is a scumbag, but the newspaper columnist who tried to make a joke out of it is a douchebag.

I hope this ends up like "What's Love Got to Do with It?" and Rhianna becomes a superstar and Brown fades into obscurity.

He did look like he was going to wet his pants during the interview, so I think the fright thing was definitely a Freudian slip.

Hugh Grant gave a real apology after his hooker incident in the 90's - he went on some late night talk show and said something to the effect of "I can't blame this on a lousy childhood or anything like that, I just did an incredibly stupid and awful thing and have no one to blame but myself." But for every real…

Yes,his apologizes were half-assed at best. Maybe quarter-assed is more like it.

It's worse when a crappy movie has a likeable actor in it, because you know they can do better.

Maybe the reason pro-suicide songs are better quality songs is that they have to be more clever - pro-suicide songs tend to contain subtle innuendo and metaphors, whereas anti-suicide songs hit you over the head with their message.

The mom on Family Ties was a successful architect. And Aunt Vivian on the Fresh-Prince of Bel-Air was originally a kick-ass, dark-skinned professor, before the show transformed her into a less threatening light-skinned stay-at-home mom.

Recently an anti-abortion group protested a Krispy Kreme promotion that referred to Americans' "freedom of choice." The anti-abortion group thought this was promoting a "pro-abortion agenda."

Yes, it really is worth reading. And I know it's not shocking that religious fanatics committed a horrible crime (though this one was pretty gruesome), but the book does explore the Mormon church's history of using "God spoke to me personally and told me to do this," as an excuse for all sorts of acts. The author…

I also hate the "uptight bitch and pathetic slob who magically balance each other out" cliche. Say what you want about Jon and Kate Plus 8, but at least that was a realistic portrayal of what actually becomes of that kind of couple!