So that settles it, you really don't know how to read. That article doesn't single out film internships except to say that they're especially notorious for this kind of thing. It does not add, "But you really have to feel for them, working with those young punks."

Here are the Department of Labor's standards defining an internship:

Oh FFS. "This is how everybody does it" is not a get-out clause; as someone said upthread, you're just describing the problem and saying "it happens, therefore it's okay." You can keep congratulating yourself on being so much more worldly-wise than these here whiny teenagers with their iPods and their self-esteem, but…

I see your aim is as keen as your powers of psychoanalysis.

You really have trouble retaining information, don't you? How many people have to point out to you that this practice is illegal and the principle is bigger than the two guys in the story?

I'm glad your daughter is being raised by someone with enough moral sense and responsibility to have to question who's really the guilty party in the case of a grown man taking topless pictures of a thirteen-year-old girl, getting her drunk, drugging her, raping her vaginally, anally and orally as she tries to resist,…

And then it's not again when it turns out the job you're doing for free is not the job you were told you'd be doing for free! Round and round we go.

Have you read any of the other comments on this page? This is exactly what lawsuits are for, it's just that most interns are college-age kids who don't have the wherewithal to bring one and/or don't care that much because it's just a stepping stone to the next level of their career. I doubt these two guys are…

"Kind of like the Greatest Generation, but reversed."

The cognitive dissonance lies here: Lack of interest in distinguishing between sex and rape is not the hallmark of a progressive, 21st-century mind. It's the hallmark of a caveman.

I assure you I'm not blaming Amy.

We're supposed to not associate that phrase with Older Amy after she had the episode named after her?

I don't think it does, actually. "Yes, being the Girl Who Waited means so much to me that I use it to sell people perfume. I think a certain alternate version of myself who chose to sacrifice her life so that I could continue to exist alongside the husband she lost rather than exact compensation for thirty-six years…

Oh, I did like that, actually. But I'll count it as sad because all it ends up meaning is that the two of them being happy and romantic and excited by each other is entirely non-representative of their marriage.

LOL, I was just thinking that this show might be okay but I can't help remembering that every time somebody in Mad Men gets on a plane, either something sad is happening offscreen (Pete's dad, Betty and Don's divorce, Lane's family), or the resulting plotline is a little weird and off-putting (Don's California…

So what, you're bewildered as to why people associate certain names with Jews when they're neither Hebrew in origin nor "exclusively" Jewish? The fact that they've obviously belonged to Jews in significant enough numbers for a long enough time for that association to exist is irrelevant? Again, it doesn't have to be…

1. Please. People don't complain on the basis that no two incredibly boring people dashing around Paris and England and expertly combining the arts of showing off and sucking at their jobs have ever uncovered a conspiracy like the one in question. They complain because, where not otherwise specified, fiction is…

Yes it does. I don't know why you would assume that "Jewish" refers to etymology in this context. Also, I don't know what your point is.

It was always slightly traumatizing when I was a kid if we didn't shut the TV off as soon as Whose Line Is It Anyway was over and Pat Robertson manifested in our living room.

And then I come to this place, and you people tell me I'm good with people. Which is strange. Because I never heard that before.