That, and if he just referred to "women" it might have been unclear whether they were actually prostitutes or just regular women who might not sleep with his friends.

FYI, more than 1/3 of Texas is Latino. Most of them manage to live there in peace. But you're right that your smug, condescending attitude probably wouldn't be welcome.

I moved away a while ago and really miss it... If you want to see suburban sprawl done really wrong, come to northern California.

"Hell, whatever gets you out of Houston should be fine by anyone."

And moonlighting at Lowe's (to pay for his bisexual son to attend NYU)! Maybe it wasn't as great as Mr. Mom, Gung Ho or Johnny Dangerously, but it was pretty darn good.

"[T]his article seems to be written by someone so incredibly insecure and unhappy in her own weight that she reacts this hysterically to a simple scientific fact."

Fair enough, but methinks you're in the wrong place considering the, ya know, extensive daily cataloging of (online and offline) tabloid reports.

Michael Keaton was great in "The Other Guys"! Makes the otherwise so-so movie worth watching. He also does voices in Pixar movies, which I imagine is both lucrative and relatively easy, performance-wise.

What's with all the anger in this post? The study shows what it shows, and the linked article treats it quite fairly. Moreover, neither the study nor the article describing it purport to show anything about cognitive function of the young and obese, so the overwrought sarcasm about skinny Los Angelenos and your…

I have little to bring to this discussion so I'll just note that "Teen's porn star date to prom scuttled by district officials" is a wonderfully droll headline and man, I feel old.

Indeed.

Let me just say in response: Spare me.

I understood and was seconding and expanding on what you said, buddy.

You don't need to grasp at straws to find something offensive about many, many, many jokes. People joke about genuinely sad or awful things all the time. People joke about disease, war, stupid ways that real people die. Those jokes aren't going to be funny to some people who are personally affected by those…

Yes. It's a visual joke. Imagine if Gaga had 1 tiny hand and 1 regular hand instead of 2 regular hands. Sometimes jokes are surreal or just plain weird. See, e.g., a good half of the internet. Not every joke has to be a knock-knock joke.

Yeah! Come to think of it, just about every joke out there is gonna offend somebody, so no jokes for anyone! Hooray!

I'll set aside the issue of whether or not it's repugnant as a general matter for someone to present as true something that is not true to millions of people (hint: it is) and focus on a narrower point: This kind of ends-justify-the-means and hey-its-basically-accurate thinking may seem fine to you when it comes from…

Cool. So I gather from your comment that it's safe to take crack and meth while pregnant?

I agree that the focus should have been on the affected Ugandans. I still don't understand what being white has to do with anything. What if the Kony video had been made by smug, self-righteous Filipinos or Hispanics or, yes, black people from New York City? Why would that have been a less offensive video?

But why does his race make a difference? Isn't it the content of his campaign that's problematic? Would it have been better in any way if he was black?