Salon has front page live blogging coverage of the funeral for a man who has not been musically relevant in more than 15 years, and was also very probably a pedophile. And the last two weeks everyone has been falling over themselves to try and walk back all the things they've thought, read, or said about him since the first time he is known to have paid off a victim's family to get out of a conviction.

I have to wonder, when OJ finally passes away, will he get the same reverence? We're talking about one of the six or so greatest running backs the NFL has ever seen. That's at least equal to a pop star, which honestly, is not very high on the musical hierarchy to begin with- its below a bassist, I'd say.

Now sure, we all know OJ butchered two people, but he was acquitted too. And it was just that one time. Are we all gonna be pretending that didn't happen when his service is held at Ralph Wilson Stadium in the not so distant future?

I cannot for the life of me understand this outpouring of love for a man who just two weeks ago was still a pariah and a pathetic joke. Is it guilt? Is that it? Is everyone really just guilty because they thought mean and nasty things about him? And now everyone's just overcompensating? Are you all just really guilty for wishing bad things to happen to someone you thought was a pedophile?

Get over it. And can we get back to actual real news on a news site?

Because I cannot wait to see her bring her circus act to New Hampshire. It will be a spectacle the likes of which you have never seen. I'd be surprised if she survives even one town hall in Manchester.

New Hampshire is all about the retail politics- you can't hide behind cougaresque winks and stale talking points when you can actually shake the hand of every voter in the primary. You wind up more often than not answering their questions directly, and they take it very personally if you avoid or fudge your answer. That's why Bush lost the state to McCain in 2000. So when they get an up front in person look at Palin's breathtaking stupidity, she will get annihilated.

One thing I can say about my home state, is that no matter how conservative some of the people may be, very few of them are that stupid.

I have always been very conflicted on Polanski. Conflicted between trying to separate between someone who might be the best director alive today, and the man who had sex with a very underaged girl. I want to gush about how great Repulsion is, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Death and the Maiden, etc., but I always have to pull myself back because of the infamy that he has, and honestly deserves. I constantly have to stop myself from trying to defend him or excuse him, usually by pointing out that after what happened to his wife he must have been in a very dark place in his life, or that what the hell, it was the 70's, and he's not the only big star who did such things. But I do stop myself, and deep down I know such arguments are bullshit.

But you know what? After nearly three weeks of seeing everyone excuse Michael Jackson, trying to explain it away, to defend him, even pretend that the man was not a pedophile, after watching everyone deify someone who is less than half the artistic talent and a million times worse a worse sex offender, I do not want to hear another fucking bad word about Roman Polanski.

Being a sci-fi kid growing up, I always make a point of seeing every sci-fi movie that comes out that has even the slightest chance of being a great film. Often I am horribly disappointed, if not downright disgusted. Memories of watching Event Horizon comes to mind. So I am very much interested in seeing District 9.

One thing though: Whatever competition that may or may not exist for the best sci-fi film of the year isn't Star Trek. That was a cute movie, but not great. The competition would be with Moon. A film that is the best sci-fi film since at least the Solaris remake, if not longer. Also a film it seems pretty much everyone has overlooked.

Even if her first steps of success were based in her work in the sex industry, it's not really important. She still sat down at the keyboard and wrote, and wrote well. That's what truly matters, and being a stripper or an office temp has no bearing on that.

I'd actually mostly forgot about her sex industry work until I read your article on her. Why does it bother you at all? Why even bring it up? She's not stripping anymore. She's not even writing about it anymore. I don't recall a stripper motif in Juno, or in United States of Tara.

You can't really criticize the media for talking about what she's wearing or putting her down if you yourself can't get over her past pole dancing. It's a burden on all women in the creative fields, this sexualization of them beyond and apart from their actual work, and it's all stupid and lame, them and you.

Look, is Cody the best writer going? Of course not. Her stuff is good, but can be better. And it might or might not get better. Just like every other writer. The most you could accuse her of is spending more time at self promotion than she spends on improving her writing/ filmmaking. And even if that were true, she definitely not the only one- Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton are far worse than Cody will ever be with the media- whoring.