Indictment doesn't prove anything. Just means some prosecutor thinks s/he can prove Bonds was lying. No confirmation of guilt yet.

yeah, I got a good education so I could get a good job so I could pay for my kids to have an even better education, so they can . . . um, do whatever the heck they want to. It just so happens that I enjoy being a trial lawyer (except when I hate it), and I certainly use that critical thinking stuff in ways they never…

I'm not a filmmaker
Very early the the process, an artist must make a decision whether to commit to a project. I don't know, but it seems to me that I would not want to commit unless I could see up front that I would have something to contribute. Perhaps the filmmaking process is too unstable for that prediction to…

Bill Gates did not "pull himself up by his bootstraps." Bill Gates had a privileged upbringing, and was attending Harvard when he dropped out to get into the computer business.

No, it is Bill Gates. Everyone knows money = sexy.

I think that was the commentary to Ocean's 13. Pitt and Clooney both deliberately paired plaids with stripes, they made sure Damon's real nose was never in a profile shot, and they made sure Dempsey did not get cast in Ocean's 13. Simple plans work best, even if they don't make good "caper" films.

I disagree with the notion that writers "deserve" a specific form or amount of compensation. This is not a crusade or a moral cause. It's a fight over the allocation of revenue.

Back in the 80's, I read that Japan technically has labor unions — but they don't function the same way as unions here in the US. As a practical matter, they side more with the employers, and function more like an HR department. As a result, the Japanese workers did see themselves as part of the corporate team,…

Then you probably shouldn't have read this.

Don't forget, you can always take that liberal arts degree and go to law school.

It'll be a sequel to "The Rehearsal Dinner," which would never sell. You'd have to get George Lucas to make them out of sequence.

Yeah, her reaction made it pretty clear he was aiming lower than that.

No, I want a new comment, not a reply
"Quest for Fire" was a good movie about prehistoric people. And Rae Dawn Chong was pretty hot (and mostly naked, even beyond the sex scene). But that has absolutely nothing to do with masturbation, so I started a new topic.

Okay, that was pretty good. But what will our wives say?

I'm using IE6. While I'm drafting a reply, the left side of the replies I'm adding to is cut off. The rest of the time, the left side is fine, but the right side is cut off. Sounds like it might be a cross-platform issue.

Though it would be nice if the right side of the replies was not cut off. I'm getting replies to my posts addressed to "Stompe," and I'm unsure how to address replies to other people. Plus, it is hard to decipher the writing when parts are missing.

Maybe if you could get some of the Monty Python guys to come out of retirement. I bet they'd have some interesting ideas . . .

So who would play Shadow? That would be a very challenging role, since the protagonist is so passive. And what about Mr. Wednesday? Most of the charming rogues I can think of are Brits, and the accent MUST be American. Don't shoot me, but perhaps Steve Martin, playing it dead straight?

Bryce failed
So the whole thing was really Chuck's slo-o-ow-w seduction by the CIA. Bryce said that on tape as part of the set-up. C'mon, the CIA knew Chuck didn't really cheat. Bryce is probably still alive, and still stealing Chuck's current (pseudo-) girlfriend.

Yes. A mis-named trilogy, but a trilogy nonetheless. Only ignorant heretics would suggest otherwise.