Also, while the northern manufacturers may have benefited indirectly from the plantation economy, I doubt it mattered much to them whether the cotton was picked by slaves or free workers.

@Didn't bother registering- The non-slaveholding farmers in the south didn't have any political power. Those in power, who had the ability to determine whether or not to secede/wage war were interested in the preservation and expansion of slavery.

I always hear this "slavery would naturally disappear" argument without any substance behind it.

Sequence- Thomas Jefferson was also a slaveholder from Virginia. Of course there's a pretty good chance that he would have fought for the Confederacy.

Try reading the various Confederate states' declarations of secession.

Chloe had its redeeming moments. No movie with a naked Amanda Seyfried can be all bad.

It wasn't very good, but it wasn't so offensively awful that I'd put it on a worst-of list. That should be reserved for the truly, laughably awful. HTTM was just another sub-par lowbrow comedy.

Maybe I only think so because I grew up listening to stuff like Public Enemy and Eric B & Rakim, but Kanye West is a terrible rapper.

I've been able to use death that way- just be careful not to smash directly into the bear with the horse and you should be fine.

I always really liked that Debbie Downer skit with (I think) Lindsay Lohan where the entire cast was cracking up so much that the skit nearly fell apart entirely.

Poodog- if you can capture one of the horses of the apocalypse, it makes killing the bears with torches a bit easier. Just stay on your invincible horse and whack the bears from your position of safety.

I don't understand the love for Jay Pharaoh.
His impersonations are good, but not funny. And I ended up fast-forwarding through most of the wheezing principal skit.

I wish they had somehow weeded out some of the adults in the theater when I saw "There Will Be Blood."

Yeah I guess so… what violence there is mostly just seems so cartoony to me that it barely registers as violence, and I don't really notice it.

UHF
I always wondered why the Weird Al Yankovic movie UHF was rated PG-13. There's no nudity, the worst language in the film is "crap," which was said once, and I think the only violence comes from Al as Rambo using an arrow to blow up a guy trying to shoot him. Was that one scene alone enough to necessitate a PG-13…

Seth was insane.

My first concert was Kool & the Gang at the Oakdale in Wallingford, CT.
I have no idea why my parents took me- I must have been maybe 5 or 6 years old. I remember about 30 seconds of the concert, and then I remember waking up in the car on the way home.

The thing is, if you're going to practice a martial art, it's generally better to train with a strike-hard, no mercy type dude than some guy who is going to make you paint fences and wax cars. If you want to learn to fight, you practice fighting.

I'm in the minority here, but to me, I think Wiig is really the only consistently funny performer on the show. Her wacky characters just make me laugh my ass off.

Crazy Gibberish, you just broke the first and second rules of usenet.