I wrote another post about this that was a little longer, but I know the old timey version of this was a scummy thing to do so that “Stars”(and the studio that owned them) would get all the glory while the singers were a dirty secret and never got credit. If they did do it now, I’d expect some transparency.

Yea keep telling yourself that.

Samuel L as the Genie would be fucking awesome.

You just *know* that the studio really wants a white guy. And that all this “we can’t find a guy after 2000 auditions” is just cover for when they announce that Aladdin will be played by Hugh Jackman.

The kinds of facilities that the Olympics require are not already built in the LA area. The IOC contractually requires enormous stadia that can handle the crowds; off the top of my head, only the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum can do that. Additionally, a lot of the facilities have to be purpose built; you can’t just drop…

I was mad reading that because he was so on the verge of being right with his overall points, but he was so WRONG in the practical examples he gave. I’ve lived in both worlds, of the stereotypical lower class rural person and the stereotypical educated urbanite, and I can tell you that what poor or uneducated people…

Yes, it’s much better when the corporations can exploit workers and pay them peanuts.

The estimates for the London games came in at 2.3 billion pounds, while the real cost was in the neighborhood of 11 billion. London has infrastructure and they still lost a ton of money on it.

Something tells me you didn’t read the article. Because it directly contradicts your comment. London in 2012 wasn’t some podunk village in a second-world nation that needed to overspend to beef up it’s infrastructure. It was (and remains today) a sterling example of a modern mega-city and the cost overruns in London…

Since wearing gloves while distributing food is apparently now racist, was Twitter equally quick to drag this racist?

Okay, let’s be clear that she certainly should have taken the gloves off when she started talking to people and posing for photos after handing out food, but did you guys really only pull the images of her wearing gloves while she was handing out food and while they were eating (which mean she’d probably JUST been…

Beautiful. I work in the foster care system in neighboring Georgia and can tell you homes like this are few and far between! We have lots of good foster homes, but more families with several children who can’t be placed together and some rough uphill battles for biological parents.

...um... Batman’s parents were murdered... you sure this is the course of action you think best?!

The plot twist to this story is...a happy ending?

I will go to my damn grave as a Beyonce pregnancy truther. She did not carry her daughter, I know this in my soul.

She also, quite frankly, sounds rather dumb when she actually speaks for once. And I’m not talking about those little (rehearsed, most likely) speeches at her gigs.

Read the original USA Today article a few weeks ago - it’s a lease to own. Under the terms, they have no ownership interests until its 100% paid off. It seems, once the drivers pay over 50% of the lease they start cutting their routes and given them the less optimal jobs (they’re paid per delivery, not by the hour),…

And what about all the clocks? Were they able to save the clocks?

We all know that what color you dress your child in will affect how they turn out as an adult. That’s why I always dress my son in all black so he will grow up to be Batman.

There are so many parents who only think in binary terms though. They will refuse to buy their kids toys and clothing because it’s too boyish or too girlish even though the kid doesn’t see it in those terms and just wants the color or the character or activity. Yes, it’s a huge problem that the little boy who wants an…