I have to watch Purple Rain every time I come across it on cable. The acting, to be clear, is terrible, but the musical performances are stellar.
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And how do you determine what their home countries are? There's always some amount of process to follow, and if demand for that process exceeds available resources, there's lag time while people are processed.
"the children arriving should be deported immediately upon being found" — Deported to where? And by what means? Unless you mean the border guards should just tell them to turn around, there's going to be some amount of processing.
A friend on Facebook frequently links to Charles Pierce on esquire.com ranting about "Tiger Beat on the Potomac" (otherwise known as Politico). Good stuff.
There are many arbitrary conventions which have a real impact on people's lives. Social conventions are attempts to normalize a wide range of personal responses to various stimuli; considerations of logic and/or function are rarely the constraining factors. There's no logical or functional reason why I should chew…
The complaining woman behaved badly, but she's entitled to feel what she feels. The acceptability of breastfeeding in public is a matter of social convention, which is purely arbitrary and changes over time. Expecting everyone to have exactly the same reaction to it is silly.
The story isn't really about the Humane Society, because I didn't even remember that part of it. But I do remember that I'm not sure I could bear to read it again.
The US went from some 20,000 cases of polio annually to none in less than 30 years after the introduction of vaccinations. That's not attributable to changes in basic sanitation. So what's your next reason for not believing that vaccines are effective and useful?
Miss Manners should be the only author available in the "Weddings/Etiquette" section of the bookstore, and should be required reading for prospective brides and grooms. Well, everyone, really, but especially brides and grooms.
Then you're probably not being interviewed by newspaper journalists.
Not so long ago, over at Tom & Lorenzo they were discussing some Hollywood article about stylists and the stars they work with. TLo commented that if stylists got too high-profile, fashion editors would react to preserve their status as the industry's arbiters. Looks like the smackdown is brewing.
It won't ruin the groom's honeymoon, so....
Leverage took on cheerleading in season 5: The Gimme a K Street Job. Those writers had spent a lot of time researching corporate scumbags, but the scumbaggery of the people who run cheer competitions really pissed them off.
People used to give Roger Ebert grief all the time because he'd give more stars to trivial little movies than big, "serious" movies. And he'd say, "It's not what the movie is about, it's how the movie is about what it's about."
"I just don't understand the complainers' thought process" — It's called analysis. Hmm, this thing bothers me. Why does it bother me when other similar things did not? How is this different from that? So this seems to be a pattern — what could be the cause. It's weird, I know, but some people just like thinking.
"I fucking WISH I could get sex whenever I want" — I suspect you could, if you didn't have any standards whatsoever, and were willing to risk your health and safety in order to get laid. It's a pity that rationality is so often rewarded with a lack of negative consequences instead of an actual positive consequence.
Or psychic. Many years ago, the tabloids (or at least The Enquirer) would publish psychic predictions for the coming year. I had a New Years tradition of going through the previous year's predictions and counting how many had a word or two in common with something that actually happened. I think the record was 4. …