I finally saw the adaptation of Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. I guess I'm alone in thinking the acting disparity btwn the leads great? Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman have no chemistry together. She's very good, emotional, really selling how in love she is with him; he, on the other hand, is a tree. Maybe I…

And further more, why should society tolerate racism? It doesn't legally. You are not legally allowed to discriminate in business, in housing, in hiring. Yes, it doesn't single out racists who haven't broken laws and punish them, and this country gives them freedom of speech to spew their racism, but that's about the…

Okay, though we as a society shouldn't applaud racists for being tolerant when they don't violently act on their racism. Which is the minimal thing you can do in society: not kill your neighbor, generally and because you're racist and he's a minority. Racists are still intolerant, by definition. Wouldn't it be better…

Devil's advocate: I hope so, but impeachment may not happen. We were all convinced Hillary would win; don't be certain of anything even if there is strong evidence for it is what I'm saying. Republicans have already demonstrated their capacious capacity to overlook everything. If they feel the heat of millions of…

A bio of the man, including his very unsavory characteristics like the antisemitism, would be interesting.

The NYT's chief book critic interviews President Obama about what books have meant to him during his life and tenure. It's a nice piece and you can tell he's passionate about reading and the life of the mind, about how books make one feel less lonely and engender empathy for others. Yes, yes, I don't see the…

Eli missing FJ and giving that answer was pretty dumb. I thought an engineer would have known that. And those villages weren't African names, were was the Rwandan Genocide three decades ago. As has already been pointed out, but it was still pretty stupid.

I noticed Eli, from a Southern state, didn't ring in once in the civil rights category while the other two did. Not that it means anything.

Well, yes! Liberals are much more tolerant than Republicans. The GOP has become an extreme white nationalist party that hates minorities; just look at their policies. There's lots of evidence for this. Democrats have embraced minorities. You could argue that cost them in the last presidential election. A more general…

"I'm not really angry nor hurt against discrimination against my people, but I am bored, so I think I'll start civil rights."—Martin Luther King Jr.

What does he think motivated the Civil Rights movement? MLK did give in to his anger and his hurt, he just didn't do it violently. He protested. Like Rep. Lewis is doing.

To turn serious for a moment (why would you want to do that?), let these people speak at universities while protesters do it outside. Let them communicate their ideas so people know how truly noxious they are. Shutting down a college speech before it starts gives them a credibility and paints the tolerant as…

It was ridiculous nonsense. I feel bad about the parents who genetically lucked out on three very strange, murdering children. Euros, like Culverton Smith last episode, has nowhere interesting to go if you just make her a psychopath. The laughable character development of she was motivated to do her impossible deeds…

Oh, good, I can gripe about this atrocious episode.Glad that you liked it. For me it was awful. I don't expect realism from any iteration of Sherlock Holmes, but, if you're going to be very clever and boast about it, like this show loves to do to the rafters, it should not be a cheat, a very improbable superhero movie…

Well, we'll see how arts and science funding goes over the next four years. Maybe not too well, but you never know; the backlash against a Trump administration could cause citizens—regular and wealthy heads of companies—to fund stuff in vigilant protest, offsetting even if slightly any big government cuts.

Yes you did, then. I don't know whether you've read it since. Having just finished it, boy does it traffic in somewhat misogynistic caricature, unintentionally, but still the main character is a frigid woman who's decent but who can't tell her husband of three decades why she won't have sex with him, implausibly…

Well, if the analogy holds, you will have Ginny Weasley to look forward to, though, personally, I would kill Ron in an "accident" and marry Hermione.

Yes. Maybe they all rang in too soon and all got locked out of answering, but I don't know if that lasts the entire time given to say the answer.

I've seen Ms. Cameron on her Disney Channel show for a grand total of a few minutes as I go somewhere else, and wish her the best in her career. Yet, her first name irritates me. I am reminded that when Jennifer Love Hewitt was starting out, she wanted to be called Love Hewitt, until someone presumably and rightly…

Sometimes you wish you were your avatar and could cast a spell that would make it all better instantly. Good luck, man.