I'm a little surprised that yesterday's Charlie Hebdo tragedy didn't get any coverage here… (unless I missed it somehow?)

It was approximately two articles thereafter when it became funny again as a running gag.

Is Eminime a little person version of Eminem?

Yeah, I think so — if he was the best actor for the part. What I mean is, I wouldn't object to the casting on the basis of Clooney's ethnicity. I'm fine with the idea of Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden or Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan (though I've not seen either film, so I don't know how they turned out). I…

There were actors in Prometheus?

I anticipate my opinion on this won't be very popular, but I'd have no problem with it if Clooney played Obama — if he was the best actor for the part.

Uhm… and Lennie Henry! Right?

Slicing your finger when you're out in the woods and a wasp is trapped inside your shorts.

You've been stabbed by fucking Screech — what do you do? (Other than bleed.) Do you brag about your scar? Do you pretend that you tripped and fell on a sprinkler head instead? Is there a lamer, more embarrassing way to be stabbed? Maybe by one of the Care Bears, but as far as I know, they're not real. Fucking…

We're in basic agreement, then, with maybe some quibbles over semantics. I mean, I agree that this is ideally an issue for criminal law enforcement… although, since this involves foreign groups (or even governments), it's hard to know precisely how to prosecute. The perpetrators don't recognize our domestic law;…

The strategy goes so much deeper than just "viral marketing." By revealing the salaries and emails, Sony is trimming the fat — getting rid of the big wigs they don't want to keep, for cause. The gender-pay gap? That's their way of fighting for equal pay, without looking like they're taking a stand. It's like God…

Except that the GOP *did* threaten violence, if this film was released — so I think that's the kind of "censorship" we're dealing with. At least, that's my understanding; if I'm wrong about that, and the GOP didn't threaten violence, then I withdraw my comment.

Complete agreement. Thank you.

I think, though, that there's a critical distinction between the kind of third party "censorship" a studio performs when it says "you can't make this movie on our dime" or even buys the rights to a film and buries it, versus some third party saying, "If you make this movie, we're going to blow up your studio" or "if…

I'm all for clarifying what the First Amendment actually is (and is not) so long as we keep the perspective that it's not the only thing at stake here, and maybe far from the most important.

I'm all for clarifying what the First Amendment actually is (and is not) so long as we keep the perspective that it's not the only thing at stake here, and maybe far from the most important.

The kind of hacking the GOP performed, and the threats of violence they levied, are not the kind of "consequences of free speech" that anyone should find acceptable.

Don't worry. If it is a legitimately offensive comment, Disqus has ways of shutting that down.

I don't know. When a group threatens families, to blow up theaters, or whatever the hell else, to get their way, that starts to smell a little like terrorism. Lame that it's centered around stopping this movie? Sure. But the tactics remain the same.

Honestly, it's not a great show, but…