My cynical side rolled her eyes and thought along similar lines.

:)

Interesting point.

You’re fine. It was likely a Kinja error that will resolve itself. The same thing happened to me, a few weeks ago. Disconcerting but short-lived.

It could have been a Kinja error: it happened to me weeks ago, but the comments returned to the proper place within hours.

Great point.

Thank you for your kind words, olivianewtonjohn! Yeah; I certainly cannot say that it is for sure any one thing; who knows? And I totally agree with everything you say. At a younger age, I was extremely interested in myriad dietary theories, and, one day, went through all of the foods in my kitchen and realised that…

So. I have to add my two cents to this. Since I never used sunscreen in my youth, I became extremely disciplined about using it every single day in my later life. For the past fourteen years. And like you, when the warnings about endocrine disrupters in the chemicals of sunscreen came along, I totally dismissed them.…

Tony Shalhoub? If so, I have a secret crush in your dad. Don’t hate me.

Ugh. Also in Allure magazine, she compared being a celebrity with being African-American in terms of the double consciousness described by W. E. B. Du Bois (I think it was W.E.B. Du Bois). And then she also lectured Alan Dershowitz’ class about terrorism (as an undergraduate I think, in psychology) based on her…

Thank you for this. So discouraging and sad. Another example of the very different talking points political leaders often give to foreigners vs their own populations. And, as for Muslims, due to the hyped propoganda about Muslims, people tend to turn a blind eye to their mistreatment. Russia and China merely need to…

Flowers = better than tuna fish. :)

I, for one, am all for Natalie Portman never again saying one word about the Middle East. It would do my blood pressure some good.

Normally, I would not care about this sort of word use. But: aesthetics. I just find Vulva a much prettier word than Vagina. Vulva is like a garden of roses watered by a serene Goddess. Vagina not so much. We need a perfume called Vulva. Ovulate: also a pretty word.

Thank you for this. I had remembered a lot of vacillation but not the specifics.

I love Blerg.

Very true although Aung San Suu Kyi has always stood upon her principles in the face of opposition in a brave, firm way despite the threats of the generals, and even returned to house arrest even rather than denounce her core beliefs. You know more than I but it seems that her reluctance to discuss the situation of…

Not just Myanmar.

You heard correctly.

I love Aung San Suu Kyi but she has only even mentioned the Rohingya under extreme pressure. Her silence and even dissimulation on the score was a breathtaking disappointment.