When has acting ever been equal pay for equal work? By that logic everyone should get paid per minute of screen time. Hell, the crew should make the same as the actors! Actually more since they're on set longer! It doesn’t work that way. The bigger names get more. Spacey was bigger than Wright. There's a much better…

Wholeheartedly agree. Warren is needed where she’s at to kick ass and chew bubblegum.

Nope nope nope nope nope NOOOOOPE PLEASE everyone stop saying that Warren should be the running mate. She can do SO MUCH MORE GOOD where she is right now than she ever could possibly do as VP.

To be honest I don’t know if Warren would accept the nomination if she was asked, I think when she eventually runs with the intent of being in the White House she will go straight for (and win) the Presidency. That being said, I would love to see them on a ticket together.

Hillary Clinton isn’t eating this cake because people will mock her, a woman, for eating.

Im tired of being shamed about cheesecake. It's a cake made of cheese. It's deranged.

My rage is tempered by your great understanding of how villainy works and how you chose both an appropriately lame villain who resembles the real life villain from the story and you chose Spider-Man who, we all know is a mere teen without parents who is just trying to do the right thing with all his great power. The…

Sandra Merrit’s expression in the top photo is that of the Green Goblin, beaten yet again, by Spider-Man and whose hopelessly damaged Goblin Glider that he’s caught on, spins hopelessly out of control, screaming “YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE LAST OF MEEEE, SPIDER-MANNN!!!” Before the bomb detonates harmlessly high above the…

^ That is a wonderful last line.

Yup. Exactly. I want to be supportive of a company with seemingly good intentions but this seems so calculated and the open letter was so obviously desperate for Internet rage/sympathy. They got all the press they wanted and more at the expense of the Beastie Boys who seem like decent and feminist dudes.

Everyone knows that GoldieBlox did this on purpose right?? It was a calculated move to gain more attention and favor to a product than a legally correct (and therefore more expensive) commercial ever could.

If Goldieblox had won in court, it would have set a terrible precedent with the potential to screw over s lot of artists. Essentially, if a business wanted to use a song but the artist refused, they could just write a parody and claim fair use. This is an extreme example, but McDonald's could turn "Meat Is Murder"…

I believe the issue the Beastie Boys have is with product advertisement. And I'm guessing MTV asked first.

It's disturbing to me how people are buying the "Mean Old Beastie Boys" thing hook, line and sinker. Goldie Blox is a for-profit company marketing cheap pink crap with a completely disingenuous feminist veneer, and they are using a tactic common to copyright infringers. Goldie Blox brought the original suit, just…

Using someone else's track in an ad is not "sampling."

This piece might clear up the issues a bit:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/the…

the open letter in particular would argue against their being dicks.

I never was a fan of the Beastie Boys so I don't have any personal vested interest in them regarding this case. But I'm siding with them. Internet outrage is great at drowning out reason. Supporting GoldieBlox is the right thing to do, and the ethical thing to do. But not at the expense of someone else's ethics,…

Oh noes! A blender is like one of those blade grinders the coffee cognoscenti hate so much. I've heard they say God kills a kitten everytime you use a blade grinder =8-O

Depends :)

Please excuse my ignorance, but does a "proper coffee grinder" grind the beans in an appreciably better way than a blender? We've been using the blender for years after our "proper coffee grinder" bit the dust, and we've not noticed any difference in the coffee. Have we been doing it "wrong" all this time? Will we…