Well then you were lucky in that you weren’t indoctrinated by a gang (or worse yet by the military as a child soldier, both situations where teens are very likely to accept that physical violence is acceptable). Again, not excusing Wahlberg, but teens, from a pscyho-physiological perspective, by their very biology,…

I’ve never met him but once sat a few feet away from him in a low key but very nice restaurant in small town Ontario - he was so relaxed, and no one bothered him, but he had quite a magnetic presence nonetheless, especially when you could hear him talking and laughing in the background (love his voice!). He could…

I know, when I read Christopher Plummer and Mark Wahlberg in the same sentence, I don’t immediately go to: wow, this must be a stellar movie - I think: oh Christopher, what are you doing??

Also, still not defending Wahlberg but... have you met many teens when you weren’t a teen? They are all stupid to one degree or another... And I say that as someone who genuinely likes kids, and has taught teens. Even the “good” ones are idiots (yes, me included back in the day).

That’s not actually true though, plenty of people learn to overcome hatred and fear of the other, whether it manifests as racism, sexism, whatever. Maybe they learn it imperfectly, but that’s not uniformly so - otherwise people could never learn anything (and if they can learn to hide racism, they can also learn to…

But without cleaning the architecture they can’t properly preserve it - what happens when tiles start to crash to the flor or moldings crumble? I think it’s better to clean it and restore it* than to have to replace it or tear it down in its entirety.

What they’ve become over time to people is at least as relevant as what they originally were.

While a bit of a caricature of Hollywood, and very definitely not universal given who they are, I LOVE the portrayal of the mom-daughter relationship in Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge (full disclosure that I never read the book, but Shirley Maclaine and Meryl Streep are fantastic in the…

That is my aunt! (and maybe me too...). I must get to know this Linda character!

Wow. That’s totally something that every child needs to grow up with :( Well done USA...

I`ve tried to mitigate some of that by buying clothing from a couple of local stores that are actually local designer co-ops (within 5o0 kms, it’s Canada - I’m in the Montreal-Windsor corridor and even we need to expand our definition of “local” given the distances between cities). Anyway, they have a lot of really…

Sure, and I agree with that! That’s still not racism, which is about systemic oppression and disenfranchisement based on specific “race”-based criteria - that’s not what’s going on here.

Pretty sure the Jez comment board counts ;p

Really not sure if you’re being facetious, but also really pretty sure that simply voicing a cartoon meerkat as though it were an ESL speaker is not racist. What it says or does in that context could be problematic, but simply having an accent is not.

She and Anne Hathaway were heartbreaking in Rachel Getting Married...

Right? It`s not like the “information revolution” is something that has only occurred in the last 10, maybe 15, years or so... It’s not like the media and government and other cultural institutions are racially/economically/socially biased and systemically flawed, to the extent that socio-cultural isolation is a real…

Not a health practitioner either but I do work in health policy (including regualtory and legislative files re: drugs and chemicals). Fentanyl is likely being re-assessed as an option after the last few years. From the way you’re describing your experience, I imagine it was at least a few years ago, before all the…

I’m not vegan but I draw the line at gelatin (and don’t eat much pork or red meat overall). There are so many awesome vegan candy options out there, there’s no reason not to make the switch (Yum Earth, Surf Sweets and Dandies are my faves).

I’m not vegan but my family has made the switch to vegan candy - Surf Sweets and Yum Earth make fantastic gummies (sour and sweet) and lollies, and Dandies vegan marshmallows are a revelation. Sorry/not sorry but I do not want melted pig parts in my sweet treats :/

Jesus christ, fentanyl is 100 x more potent than morphine, and it, like other opiates, easily crosses the placenta, how is this even allowed in childbirth?? I had no idea fentanyl was used in epidurals too... I’m pregnant with #2 and I didn’t have an epidural the first time, I’m definitely not considering it now...