But losing a part to Oprah must be like watching a millionaire win the lottery.

Mo'Nique says that several major acting opportunities initially offered to her "all just went away" afterward. That includes a role in Empire (now a huge show for Fox) and the part in Lee Daniels' The Butler that Oprah Winfrey ended up playing. Mo'Nique was also supposed to play Richard Pryor's grandmother in a…

what was shady about that acceptance speech? that she called out the politics of award campaigning? was she blackballed for not campaigning because lots of actors don't. was she difficult on set?

I agree I would rather honor MLK over Chris Kyle, but the Academy Awards aren't given to the best human being. There's no Oscar for "Most Heartwarming Tale." I'm glad they did an MLK movie (he doesn't have enough of them), but the actual movie wasn't very good. American Sniper, while I hated the subject and Clint…

I don't remember what year it was now (1998?), but I was talking to Harvey Weinstein's first wife, who was a customer at a store that I was managing at the time. We were talking about the Academy Awards, for some reason, and she mentioned that it was going to be tough to beat "last year" (The English Patient). She…

It doesn't matter if it was terrible. It deserves to win because the director and cast are African American. Period.

American Sniper, though, was a movie directed by someone the Academy has nominated a bunch of times and starring a big movie star who's also a previous nominee. "Clint Eastwood movie" is something that an Academy Award voter will reflexively think is relevant to what they're doing. A movie like Selma, without big…

... But Selma was a terrible movie.

Silver Linings Playbook was an idiotic, glib movie masquerading as some kind of insight into mental illness. As a bipolar disorder sufferer, it made me so mad I almost snapped the Netflix DVD (but didn't because it was from my mother's Netflix account because nobody under 60 still gets DVDs from Netflix).

Reading Pat Sajak's twitter and finding out he's a raging conservative asshole is a real bummer.

okay, Ringo. Did I do it right?

Here in the US, that's statistically true. Non-theists are the other largest group, by far. The "I don't know"s outnumber all non-Christian religions put together here. The biggest minority religion (Judaism) is barely over 1% of the population. So we're getting into the "not statistically significant" realm for…

So you've had some bad conversations. Dude, everyone has. Have you been in a work situation where you are the only non-praying person? Been asked where you attend church by a boss or a person being interviewed? You are part of the majority in the US, at least. It's very WTF-y to me to hop in here, in a conversation…

I was always bemused by the fact that my nonreligious parents (my dad actively left the church, and my mom was never raised with any faith) put me in a protestant school. So I was taught everyhting about religion in school while at home we didn't have any religion at all.

You're the right kind of crazy, kiddo.

My subdivision where I live has at least 4 to 5 rabbits per house. You can drive down the main road and see rabbits lined up by the sidewalk.

Solution: FUR COATS FOR EVERYONE!