Tori Amos is brilliant. How is it that she doesn't get what a supervillain is? The point of the question is to explore dark, dastardly thoughts.

I gotta complain about the headline. "Science" didn't get anything wrong in any of these cases. PEOPLE did Science wrong… Science is not some static consensus. Science is the continuing process that helps people figure out that phrenology (or astrology, or whatever unfounded theory confuses us at the moment) is NOT…

And well called. It's exactly like saying: "I love you, I just hate who you are." That's the kind of thing people say when they have no idea what love is.

"Is that his story to tell?" was the irksome line for me. I know that's a popular critical bent these days but: a) It's one verse in a song. The dude is hardly "appropriating" "Roots: The Musical." b) The idea that a songwriter shouldn't tell the story of (or genuinely empathize with) another human being is absurd -…

The answer is "Ben-Hur," people, come on. Equally acceptable: John Carpenter's "The Fog."

Tasteless? Yes. But there was also lots of love put into it. Approved.

My screen name is a Jean Valjean reference, so I'm half excited by the impromptu Les Mis sing-along and half embarrassed.

Tomei?!? You's all haven't seen "The Wrestler" or "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"? She's, hmmm, kind of good now.
Paltrow- eh- she can go either way.
Julia Roberts has been terrible for far too long.

I always feel myself sliding into hyperbole when talking about "The Body" to people, and so I try to be all cynical, point out how intrusive some of Whedon's choices are before any one else does… But my mom died a month ago, so I may be excused from saying that "The Body" may be the saddest, most heart-breaking thing…

They call it hypocrisy, denial, myopia. It's been around forever.

mcc, thanks for making sense. You're right.

As a Cuban who's seen this happen before, seriously, I can't get with Chavez. When there's a cult of personality, there's no democracy. It's that simple. Either the people rule, or they're being ruled. The thing about Chavez is, and maybe you have to speak Spanish to truly appreciate this, he's comically dictatorial.…

You gotta point- but then again when the neighbor comes in with the hatchet, I'm not going to be: "Boy, am I relieved this is happenning for a substantial reason!"

But what I mean is, if the neighbor is an asshole it's not because he's religious, it's because he's an asshole. The assholeyness comes before the religion. It's part of human nature. Religion may never go away- but it MIGHT- and STILL the neighbor will find a cause to be an asshole about.

Empathy.
The thing with Hitchens is that he's out to provoke, (more power to him) so his intolerance of other people's lives and beliefs comes to the foreground. I'm an atheist myself, (well, more of an agnostic- for all I know I'm a retarded butterfly in Planet XZT dreaming he's a human being on Earth, I'm open to…