Welles' favorite film was Renoir's Grand Illusion, a film about this theme. It's Scorsese's favorite, too (he has three huge posters of it in his living room).

Renoir did another film about the war, Rules of the Game, which I (and Paul Schrader and Altman) think is the best film made.

Infinity exists only as an abstract mathematical concept (there are as many infinities as there are certain types of numbers). In physics, in real life, in the universe, it doesn't exist.

Wait. When did people become lazy?

Also, why has masturbating been spelt "masterbating" more than once on this very site on this very day, this shortest day?

It's okay if no one answers this. I can text my kids. They'll call back.

And it's not just bizarrely bad journalism, it's bizarrely bad journalism that's set feminism back to the Connery Bond. If I say it's pretty obvious that Erdely's eyes were fastened to her career, I might be biased because I'm also a writer, but a responsible one. But I'm not biased because of my gender, as Anna…

I think video's a mistake for Jezebel. The writing itself, whether or not it aligns with its readers' mores, is so strong. But the music, the credits, the fonts, the colors, the cutsey squiggles, and even just seeing the faces of the people whose words we read turns this site into a marketable little gift-wrapped…