@sarrible: The sarah Reinertsen image is amazing! I love how they put her prosthetic front and center. It makes the photo about her athleticism, and the beauty of an athlete's body, rather than just a sexual image. Plus, it's a beautiful device.

@eclare09: I thought that was hilarious. So when she came back with an attack, it seemed really out of place.

@Dancingfrog: I think a lot of people are falling into this category. Who can afford to see a movie in the theater anymore? If I can, I only go if it's something that works best on the big screen. I'm sure Whip It will be getting a lot of attention once it hits Netflix.

@goldengirl11: Once you've seen a baby cow chained to the ground in a tiny box filled with his own diarrhea, knowing that he will spend his whole brief life in such a manner until someone comes along and puts him out of his misery so that someone can eat veal...kind of makes you think that a few minutes of torture…

@sparky: Oh no!

It's kind of ridiculous to imply that her tweet is setting back the pro-choice movement. The anti-choice movement has ignored, and will continue to ignore, the rights of women and any facts that supports abortion. They operate on a different playing field altogether. If just one woman at any time in history admitted…

Thank god someone at the LA Times is calling out these industry people on their support of Polanski.

Kate has won the Hitting the Nail On the Head contest, for sure.

@Dirk Anger: There were some transcripts of the police interview with the victim published earlier this year. In them she describes willingly taking off her top for Polanski at his request (he had brought her there to pose for pictures), but then Polanski not only gave her alcohol, but also a sedative. He then raped…

@maggeimerc: It's pretty scary to think that the state would drop a case against an accused person at the request of a victim. How would this not encourage criminals to frighten victims into dropping charges? The purpose of the criminal justice system is to enforce our laws, not to provide payback for individuals..

@rodmanstreet: The outfit would be fab on her if the underwear weren't 2 sizes too small. I think they need to call in Clinton and Stacey.

I do agree with some of the points in Dowd's piece. Mostly the notion that there are more expectations on women today than ever. Men are still making more money, enjoying more career success, doing fewer dishes than women, and at the same time they no longer have to be the sole bread-winner. Plus, women are still…

@gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: "Make this woman's name just as public..." Yeah, like a sign around her neck, or something pinned to her chest. You should start your own think tank.

@SarahMC: Absolutely true.

Did anyone see her on Late Night? She really raked herself over the coals for "falling apart". She talked about how sad and unfortunate it was that she had loose skin (!) and pulled at her elbow skin to prove the point. And I have to say, I was pretty disappointed at the amount of immobility in her face. I can't help…

@EudoraAegeus: I have a few problems with this photo. One of them is that women get very few opportunities to see themselves and other women looking "normal" without making a big deal out of the fact that they are average or fat or working towards losing weight. Idealized portrayals of women are much more prevalent…

Seems like a nation overrun by guys with "little man" syndrome. Don't they have anything better to do than think up ways to force themselves on women?

@SarahMC: I'm doing this!: That's something I go back and forth on - are we by nature compassionate, or is it mainly learned? I also wonder if this is partly a gender issue - that women can be treated so inhumanely by both fighters and family.

@Dodgergirl: Well put. If our idols did not have flaws then why would we admire them? The more they overcome, the more worthy they are of admiration.

The situation in the DRC, as well as Rwanda, calls into question a lot of assumptions about the nature of humans and our capacity for compassion. How can it be that so many people (in this case, men) have lost their humanity? The stories from the region are not unique when considering other war crimes in the modern…