"They're federal holidays. People get off work for them."

I agree - like I said, I have no love lost for Jonah Hill. Somehow I sense his agent worked it out so that he got a back-end profit above and beyond the "mere" $60,000 he earned up front.

Congratulations on loving the noise level where you live.

Northwest D.C. is very quiet. Please don't move there.

Jeez, you attracted some rudeness on this thread. For what it's worth, I feel for you. I used to live in a place that on July Fourth sounds a lot like where you are, and I felt similarly. Noisemakers would go off all friggin' day long, but once the sun went down, the real hard-core stuff came out. I don't have…

It's her thread; she has the right to dismiss who she wants.

Oh, shoot - I'm a straight girl too :/

I have no idea! But that's a lovely thing to hear regardless :)

Okay, I get it; you have a Tilda boner. Bye.

It's not "censorship" when someone declines to pay you for your opinion.

I think she's a fascinating person (the documentary A Piece of Work is must-see) but frankly, she lost me when she appeared as a guest judge on Project Runway. It was one of the always-cringeworthy "real woman" challenges, using retirees as clients. Joan made a comment to one of the women about how she should want to…

Again, you are distorting a term. This is not "censorship." This is the market at work. Say what you want, but say things that are unpopular, offensive, make your employer look bad or cost them money? Expect the market to respond.

You are aware that the First Amendment does not protect you from the private consequences of freely expressed speech?

Well, as I'm not the one bellyaching over a racist knuckledragger, yes, it does.

... they even said that terminations private conversations/texts should not allow an individual to be terminated under most circumstances

TL;dr.

No worries :)

Doesn't matter their intent; they put his Twitter activity on full-blast, and Weiner ultimately had to resign because of it.

Bears? Yes, I know that.

I'm aware that Bears was being sarcastic. Going by his other comments, however, pierre is not and that is why my comment is addressed to him.