I was not disagreeing with you at all - and I think I understand your point.

So is it fair to say unless she showed some kind of ‘ethnic awareness’, like a personal connection to racism, she is more whitewash than character?

Dear college football fans, especially alums: your dollars and attention enable rape and child moleststion and a culture where such acts are dismissed in favor of the ‘integrity’ of the program.

RFE is an official organ of the USG.They may distribute actual information as an alternative to local media inadequacy, but they are not even close to an independent source of quality journalism.

Got to give him credit - he does Equus, a couple of moody but well reviewed horror flicks, then this - Dan R. Has not let being the richest movie star in the UK stip him from doing his damnedest to develop serious acting chops in interesting projects.

Well, generalizations are bad... But I will go with you on this one.

Question: What is it about Hermione, aside from a really tiny bit of description you cite, that makes her a white character being turned black? How would you distinguish between this new interpretstion of the character and an ‘actual’ black character? And I mean specifically with Hermione - your point about other…

I submit that if the property is so rich it needs two plus hours of screen time, better to put it on a more suitable platform - miniseries, or movie series.

No. Go with the lesser of two evils. People have suffered and died to gain you the right to vote, and in other countries, people are dying to earn the right to vote. Grow up and do your very very basic civil duty. Consider voting the least you can do to respect the privilege you have been given, even if you dont…

Hopefully you did not become young and broke-backed from it.

I am familiar with the general outlines of gamer gate and the ongoing drama around the various sci fi writing awards, but I have zero personal stake in it per se aside from the general horror I feel reading about misogyny, racism, etc. Books like this strike me as objectively useless - those who have decided that, for…

As someone who gut rehabbed his home and hung more sheetrock than I ever want to see again, and have the back brace to prove it, this comment elicited that most rare of internet feels, sympathy.

I was an embassy guard long ago. While being briefed on security equipment, I was told the glass in our control center was ‘bullet resistant Lexan’. One guy looked at the demonstration sample noting many rounds embedded in the glass but no holes and said ‘bullet resistant or bullet proof’. Long pause, then ‘I call it…

Even with gos tracking - gps signals can be muffled or blocked, and for a $1,000+ bike, a dedicated thief might take the time to make the right tools.

I just realized in my initial comment I reamed him for the comment without thinking - so thank you for pointing this out. My bad on that.

1. You cant see a dick in a mens room unless you look, and I mean really try to see one. And doing so is a bad idea, as it violates bathroom protocol everywhere that is not a gay bar at happy hour. If you have a minor child in a gay bar at happy hour, you have other issues.

I am a father of a 6 year old girl and three year old boy. I have taken the girl into mens rooms all the time as she was growing up, and never had a problem. Every dad does it. Likewise, my wofe takes my son into the womens room if corcumstances dictate.

Thank you for some good news - ok not really good, but tou know what I mean.

Agreed on that.

There are great kids movies made - My Friend Totoro, Up on Poppy Hill.