I’m too young to remember any of this happening. The only thing I knew about Polanski before viewing this documentary was a couple of his films and that he was a pedophile who couldn’t enter the US. I didn’t even realize Polanski was married to Sharon Tate (or even who she was except a Manson victim). I had no idea he was a holocaust survivor. I didn’t know that there was a specific 13 year old girl involved. I had no idea that the media coverage (especially the European coverage) was so disturbing – that the European press can do that to a victim is beyond awful. The detail about the mother and the judge were insane – they were both as crazy as they come. This story was like an international OJ on crack.

I did walk away from this film finding Polanski sympathetic: a pathetic, washed up, dirty old man who did wrong. I don’t think it’s wrong to have sympathy for criminals or to want to examine the thing that drives them. And I did not find that it white washed over this raping a 13 year old girl. Rather then this film being about that rape or Polanski’s guilt or innocence I found it to be about the media coverage, a character study of everyone involved and a several moments in history. Truly fascinating stuff and I can see why this was and is such a huge story.

This article I found almost insulting. It assumed that I, knowing nothing of this case except what I saw in the film, was somehow brainwashed into thinking raping a 13 year old (or anyone for that matter) is understandable in certain situations and that’s not at all the case at all. I’m sure some people did watch this documentary and found Polanski the hero – but I think that’s says more about the individual viewer and less about the film itself.

As an Officer I think you’ll find the military is culturally very different compared to the experience of someone who enlisted straight out of HS. And in the Air Force especially you’d be fine. And while we do have a war going on – you’re not going to be in a ditch on the front lines a la ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ as so many Salon readers are freaking out over. I have family in the Air Force and they’re not in a war zone with a bayonet – they’re in a little village in Germany taking weekly trips to Paris and going on the occasional ski vacation.

I appreciate the liberal point of view you’re getting here on Salon – but the truth is that in a couple of years, when our economy is better, the job market is going to be flooded with overeducated young people who have never had a real job and that looks like embarrassing crap on a resume.

There is the issue of the wealthy Manhattan family who can no longer afford the tuition at Spence, Dalton or one of the other fancy pants schools. This is certainly a ‘Style Section’ issue.

Then there is the issue that most urban residents face – sending your kid to a scary public school or finding the money to send them to a private school that more closely resembles your average, public suburban school and somehow dealing with those costs.

Then there is the much larger issue that Sarah speaks about: the state of our nation’s public schools in general. Honestly I don’t know much about that issue - in fact the solution that many of my urban friends are coming to is moving out to the suburbs where you can send your kids to a nice, safe public school for free. So in my mind most public schools are not bad at all so I don't really get where we're going with this conversation...

It depends where you shop. If I step into an American Apparel (or any very trendy/young boutique) I’m a L or XL – but at the J Crew, the Gap or Ann Taylor I’m a Med. If I go shopping with my grandmother at her shops of choice I’m a Small all of a sudden.

But really this is all a non issue – 2 or 3lbs? Unless you’re dangerously thin to start with no one can visually spot that sort of very slight weight gain.

The ducks and geese will run toward their feeders – at least that’s what I’ve seen them do at the Hudson Valley farm this article briefly touches on. I with this article had spoken more about the feeding process. And yes – they do use hard, plastic tubing to feed them. And, as the article points out, overeating to the point of having an engorged liver is something pre-migratory ducks and geese will do in order to survive those long flights – so while the way in which the ducks are feed is not natural it’s not so very far off the mark.

I think factory farms feeding cows corn (something they can’t process without drugs) is worse and that’s an issue that’s not getting nearly the coverage it deserves in favor of shutting down the small, responsible farmer – that’s what this article is about.

The rest of the duck is prized as well. Ever heard of “duck margot”? The duck breast from a foie gras duck is used to prepare that dish.