No way dude. The Patriots are, if nothing else, always prepared. I feel like when they lose in the playoffs, it's always to a really good version of the Ravens or Broncos, or, uh, the unstoppable Eli Manning (which, who knows?). They fuck up SO rarely that beating them, like once!, kept Rex Ryan employed for years.

C'mon, we both know you can't just leave it at that.

The last thing you want to see is the New Orleans Pelicans old mascot: http://media.jrn.com/images…

What's with the NFL's pathological binge and purge with LA teams? Why must there be either two or none? And why, when LA clearly expressed preference for the latter, would you force the former?

Talk to someone who lives outside of Toronto or Montreal about the First Nations peoples of Canada—or just wait a few Molsons and they'll offer unprompted, unwelcome opinions on "natives" themselves.

For all of his building slides, and buying Elephant Man's bones, he was certainly equally a calculating businessman. People are complex, I guess that's what I'm getting at.

They just don't want Hollywood to figure out they could all be replaced by Australians for a fraction of the price.

But we've Ben anticipating it for so long!

I think what's being contested isn't Michael Jackson's blackness, but the definition of "blackface."

I'll go with you one step further: "Blackface" isn't just "white people playing black people," it has a visual language and known signifiers, which an imitation or portrayal of Michael Jackson would lack of necessity. It just so obviously isn't a portrayal or a reflection of "black people," it's a depiction of a very…

It was an amazing cultural attitude shift that felt nearly instantaneous.

"Putting a black guy there un "whiteface" would look equally ridiculous IMO."

Zadie Smith wrote a short story about it for the New Yorker called "Escape from New York."

If that was the case, then they would have said "this is disrespectful to his many victims" not "this is disrespectful to him."

Respectful = profitable. What do you not get here?

Minstrel-y around the world is pretty complicated and fascinating. In South African "coon carnivals" black people dress in black face!

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Man, I don't know what is, but the hardest I've laughed at a movie in the last couple of years were Chaplin, Pierre Etaix and Jacques Tati.

Right? Can anyone cast this better?

My suspicion is because they don't know or care about that, they just want their lucrative estate to keep bringing in the money and want to ignore his latter life, uncanny valley-looking, child-molesting reclusive bazillionaire era and the fact that Joseph Fiennes looking terrifying is closer looking to 2001 Jackson…