There is so much wrong with the record industry I don’t even know where to begin. These big labels should be scrambling to re-org their entire business model. But rather then coming up with new, innovative ideas on how to promote and sell music these big corporations are attacking the very people they should be looking at for ideas.

The course of action RIAA has taken makes them look like ‘the man’ and no one wants to buy music from that guy. They might have caught a few teenagers breaking the law but it’s not going to make up for the hundreds of thousands of kids who see RIAA as a bunch of corporate tools clinging to their huge bonuses and picking on teenagers.

Theses few teenagers get hit with fines that represent not just what they took but what thousand upon thousands of other people took too. I think it’s mean and lazy just fine some people. Why not stock broakers or doctors or lawyers? Why just kids?

The folks at RIAA look like asses in front of an age group who’s buying more music then any one else. What RIAA is doing might be just and it’s certainly legal – but it’s a really dumb PR move that’s going to end up costing them.

I did too. He was on the hot seat in a way he rarely is with all the blushing and stammering – usually it’s his guests that are caught off guard like that. I doubt very seriously he was in on the joke (but I’ll bet you anything his producer knew just what was going to happen).

There is a sort of TV that you’re supposed to be almost to embarrassed to watch (The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, American Idol, etc) and this was along those lines. If you really thought this was ‘sexual harassment’ I think it’s time to step away from the TV and take a few deep breaths.

And Fonda? She’s one hot cougar. Meow.

And if I thought my menudo wouldn’t suffer for my depression I’d probably call myself ‘blue’ and just wait for it to pass. But knowing it could affect my child would make me make a doctor’s appt quick and that would help everyone involved – if that’s what this study leads too that can’t be a bad thing.

I totally agree – calling it sex-ed makes it sound like we’re teaching technique in the public schools. What we’re really talking about are biology and basic health courses. Our schools just can’t skip the human reproductive system because some people are uncomfortable or it becomes fine not to teach all sorts of subjects that various communities find objectionable.

He reminds me of a ‘90’s alternative’ Beck with a hip hop edge or maybe an emo-ish Cake. It’s not ‘all new’ but the way he’s mixing it up is very different: especially compared to other AI contestants.

In a few years (after the AI frenzy wears down and he’s got a little more experience) I could see myself buying one of Blake’s albums and I can’t say that for anyone else on the show this year.

What he did was scary and it warranted an investigation. It’s easy to look back at the situation and say ‘he was just tipsy’ or ‘the flight staff over-reacted’ or ‘if they’d have only know about his medical condition’ but at the time I’m sure Kurth had an entire cabin full of people scared shitless that he was going to rip open a hatch over the Atlantic or something.

Screaming and yelling obscenities and walking around when he should be in his seat with no explanations? No one in good conscience could let this person back on a plane, or even loose on the streets of London, before he’d been looked into. It sounds like the air staff and the police on the ground did just what they should have done.

The author’s treatment while he was detained was horrendous: not even actual terrorists deserve that. For me that's the story - his treatment in prison. Had his time in prison been a safe, decent experience the whole story would have, for me, been a non-issue.

This whole thing reminds me of about 100 incidents with my dad when I was a young teenager. I’m not saying it’s right or nice to loose it with a child but I do think this kind of fighting, between (pre)teens and parents, is as common as dirt. It hardly deserves the front page treatment it’s been getting.

Do I feel sorry for Alec? A little bit, yeah. He’s got a mentally ill ex-wife who’s actively trying to keep him away from his daughter and when he blows up over it (as he seems prone to doing) she leaks the call and it all becomes front pages news.

Of course it’s Ireland Baldwin who has my real sympathy. It seems like both her parents have failed her on this one.