Agreed. that is what I meant about America taking personal responsibility.

Well, you see, we are a colonial country and many of our social problems today are legacies of that colonialism. So, you know, we bitch about colonialism a little more. When European countries lost their colonies they were able to break away from the legacies of colonialism in a way that a country that was an actual…

Don't feel too bad. Most actors go their entire careers without one good, lucrative role in the public eye. He'll be a great professor, and academia is probably going to be a happier place for him than the TV actor's treadmill.

The best part of this is that his pig companion predated his fame, so he was not another famous oddball with his nutty pet.

It seems to me that one of the great powers of any nonviolent movement for social change is the power to draw attention to the situation and shame the oppressors. For this to work other people who are not part of the situation have to look at the situation and speak their disapproval. This is the mechanism by which…

Does this mean that the whole film can be classified as a fraudulent Native American good unless Depp can demonstrate his ancestry in court?

I suspect that you almost have to be middle-aged to understand how degrading the movie was at that time. In my '80s high school "jock" type guys would regularly make degrading jokes about the act of fellatio, like it was seamy to perform it and the act was a shameful thing for a woman. I can only assume that it was…

Sigh. You beat me to it. Curse my 160-year-0ld programming.

It is not entirely on-topic, but I felt so relieved when I read (here) that her prognosis was good. I feel such goodwill towards her, and she is in my top seven comics. I would offer her my home but I doubt that we are quirky or convenient enough to be used.

Completely fair. I can see how it was taken that way.

Nahh. I regret not making it more clear that I was interested in the averaging of a doll that a lot of girls "want to be" rather than suggesting anything really negative about the project. Basically, if she is exactly average half of girls would be getting the message to "tone it down" while the other half would still…

Wow, that's quite an attack. I just thought that it was funny that she went for exactly average on a doll that is generally seen as unhealthily aspirational. For the record I also approve of moderating these dolls into the range of normal humans and discouraging girls from feeling bad that they can't achieve an…

Ken, of course, will be replaced by Harrison Bergeron in full gear.

If you you carry that weight one hand at a time (assuming that you have the time to do so much walking around) it will also help with your lower back as you hold yourself straight while you walk.

I think that it was Ricci, but she was just being harassed for being a troublemaker.

What I don't get is how she can be so stylish and amazing while still being a huge nerd. God I love her.

I think about this sometimes and I am torn just as I was during the primaries. I do not think that Hillary would have been more progressive and I definitely do not think that she would have been less hawkish. I do, however, think that she would have found her feet more swiftly and been more able to deal with the…

That's the idea. They should have gone outside of the Hollywood box.

There is no way that beach could have carried the role. He's a decent-but-not-remarkable actor. The only "name" actor who could have done it, Graham Greene, aged out of the role decades ago and was maybe always too heavy. They should have done one of two things: Made a huge effort to search for a "new" Native American…

You misunderstand my post entirely. He is as good as, but does not yet have the power of, those directors. He lacks the clout to push studios into doing everything that he wants to do the way a Spielberg can. I said "not big enough" rather than "not good enough."