You childless people don't understand

I still think something weird happened to Burton around the time of Mars Attacks! That movie should have been the surest of sure things. To this day I don't understand why it didn't work. Aside from Tom Jones, of course.

I admire your analytical instincts here.

I guess there are probably people who think this isn't a worthwhile question, or that it's harmful to discuss — but I've legitimately pondered this question for years, without coming to any reliable answers.

I know I signed up properly, but your newsletters never make it to my mailbox. Have you considered shipping them in plain brown wrappers?

isn't it likewise kinda culturally imperialist to set up a supply chain of women from poorer countries in order to provide relatively wealthier young men with sexual services?

She went on to found the much more streamlined People's Party

Amazing to note that first-round opponent Air Force wound up giving BC its tightest game in the NCAA tourney.

Promoted for your outstandingly rigorous approach to a question that merits careful analysis.

Yes, thanks for this.

I admire your analytical instincts. I wish I'd developed similarly precise habits of thought earlier in my own life. But I started my career as a journalist, and a lot of journalism relies on preserving certain analytical ambiguities in a text — or at least not inquiring into them too closely.

Would you care to expand on the reasoning behind your vow, at all?

Your parsing of the word "exploitation" is spot-on, in my opinion.

It might be worth pointing out that not every person (man or woman) can obtain sexual intimacy with another person gratis. I understand that discovering this about a partner would be a dealbreaker for some people — but sometimes it might be interesting to consider why that is.

Outstandingly substantive points, all of these. Thanks for contributing.

Heh, the "more reputable" participants I was thinking of aren't the trafficked sex workers — I don't think of them as either abusive or disreputable, typically.

The persistent abuse of trafficked sex workers isn't evidence the sex trade should be made illegal or that its workers should be pushed to the fringes of society, out of sight and mind of the law and the general public.

(The exception, of course, is Scott, who's essentially played Stifler for the rest of his career.)

I imagine that was the shortest, as well as the most convincing, film review you ever wrote.

That might be more editorializing than I've ever seen crammed into a film review...but damned if that isn't a pretty nifty review anyway. I've always wondered what made (broken, angry, disturbed) people speak so joyously about this film. And now I'm convinced I'm really missing something, and should watch it at my…