Excuse you. None of them look like James Spader. ;)

Hee. The one with the little girl in princess garb chasing a frog as her Swiffer-armed dad follows behind is adorable.

Hee. Yeah, this is a particularly insidious trap. I call it the James Cameron Syndrome, for he struck me as particularly egregious in this department.

Yeah—these people want the Gilded Age back...with themselves on top.

“We’ll see if the people of New Jersey remember even a bit of this the next time a Republican runs for elected office at any level.”

I can see why he did Miracle at St. Anna—it was a WWII story from a African-American POV, and a solid mystery. Unfortunately, war movies depend on a firm sense of character location to sustain tension, and Lee couldn’t quite pull that off. A good try, but not his long suit.

One could argue that once Lee had reasonable budgets/studio money to work with, he could concentrate on the actors more. The performances he’s gotten and his eye for talent have launched a lot of careers—Sam Jackson and Halle Berry, among many. As well, Denzel gave up at least one of his best performances under Lee.

Heh—I was working in the industry in ‘86, and SGTHI was such a relief to see. It came out in the middle of a deluge of John-Hughes-Suburban-White-Boy-Land, Schwartzenegger-Rules actioners, and/or Yuppie-Greedheads-Uber-Allies dramas. It was _so_ refreshing to not only see non-whites as leads, but a whole black…

The cream of the unfunny jest—she’s my sister-in-law...and she’s caused a major family rupture.

Ugh. One of the coldest, most self-righteous, and unempathetic people I know is a psychiatrist. She got her start counseling college students with “family problems,”but since she probably met too many “losers,” there, she’s now a sports psychiatrist/athletic life-coach. She’s one of those folks who have more issues…

Kelly’s hiring makes no sense from any angle. Mainstream viewers aren’t going to forget she’s ex-Fox, and Fox viewers aren’t following her away from the Fux cocoon to make up that ratings difference. She’s lousy at picking stories; sucks at interviewing;  yet NBC put her up against 60 MINUTES—the investigative news…

He’s an amateur compared to this homes.

“Her house smells like soup?” Forgive me if I’m missing something, but how is that an insult? Even cheap canned soup smells pretty good. :)

Booooooooooo. ;)

They must love guillotines.

“Getting better jobs” means getting more education or changing careers—which means goo-gobs of money. I’m working on getting certified as a medical coder, and that is going to run me a good $5,000—a chunk of change when you are on disability and freelancing. If it weren’t for help from my mom, I’d be in the soup.

Urgh. There is nothing more infuriating than getting scapegoated by family members, striking back—and then having the family “peacemakers” say you’re the one causing trouble and should make nice for disturbing everyone. Ask your mother straight-up if she’s cool with your husband dying and you being in unpayable debt.…

Wal-Mart doesn’t want cops? Why?

It’s been a while since I had Hydrox, but they weren’t as rich in chocolate-wafer flavor as Oreos. And they had less cream.

That question is best put to Rossi, Reid, Garcia, and the rest of the BAU crew, no? ;)