Cranston is 61; Garner is 45. That's closer than I was expecting. Nevertheless—Hollywood: Stop it!

If it were in the other Amherst, Emily Dickinson would so write a poem about it.

I propose from now on we call this feature White Whale Song and Artist. At least a hatchet job review has more evidence-based merit and is deliciously entertaining. This was just ranting at length.

Oh, I thought she might have killed the baby.

If you're worried about being emotional, it's not devastating. It's a vibrant 13 year old's diary. If you think a person's diary will be boring, she writes well enough and perceptively enough that it's pretty compelling.

I mean, technically Joan didn't throw the flower pot at Mamacita; in her anger she blindly threw it and Mamacita happened to be standing right there, but, yes, she had to leave her for her own sanity. Now that Pauline has also quit, where is that series about their sensible road trip across America? Great performance…

I had never read Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl (the first published edition) in school, where you typically read it I assume. I hadn't read it as an adult. This past month, I finally read it. And it is, like her, extraordinary. She was a literary prodigy at 13,14,15. A capacious mind confined in a small place.…

First he'll have to buy me dinner. I ain't that easy.

As do you.

Fuck You! (starting already.)

Thank you, I guess. I'll start yelling and being very irrational from now on if I have the reputation for making fair points.

To rephrase what I said above—that's what the governing, wealthy power structure wants: to have us fight with each other over who is the greater victim, and not recognize that acknowledging one injustice doesn't mean overlooking another one, which is far greater. Excusing one young person who happens to be white for…

Ah, now I see your argument. Yes, alas African-Americans are held to a much more unfair double standard. But both things can be true: Jenner could have gotten into this pickle because she was too young to know better, and we shouldn't litigate the moral life of African-Americans when they got harmed by the police. One…

True on all counts. But my defense of her comes from what the internet justice league can do to a person—I did see Herzog's Lo and Behold this week which has a story on the dark side of social media—once the mistake is made. Also should read Ronson's book. I've read the reaction hurt her. Now hopefully this experience…

Well, I mean, so did everybody else who worked on the ad, but who can't be specifically blamed because they're not public figures. I don't think she had the power to stop the ad; Pepsi would have found some other celebrity. But, yeah, we can blame her for not knowing any better, but she wouldn't deserve terrible…

I feel this is a case of "Whataboutism" and a reaching one, since we're comparing the richest most modern democratic state with tribal Mideast countries-theocracies. But I would counter with the fact that the richest most modern democratic state/world's only superpower does have 25% of the world's prisoners, and is…

Maybe not a normally adjusted adult. A woman who grew up entirely as a celebrity, who's been on camera for years, plus the normal 20 year old characteristic of making poor decisions. Perhaps I shouldn't have phrased it as an either/or on whom to totally blame, which goes back to 3 and binary thinking. How about this:…

"Could Your Last Name Uncover Your Royal Lineage?" sez the sponsored ad Why, yes, I am related to Prince Albert in a can, and frequently chase wayward refrigerators as a result.

Yes, but I happen to live in this one, so I can see it firsthand.

Between the mega corporation that dispenses eventual liquid death and who actually made the ad, and the sheltered, young, reality show celebrity who merely starred in it, it's not hard deciding whom to blame. Tweet 3 is very true.