Get a tv critic who isn't embarrassed to enjoy the shows she watches. Seriously Heather, get over yourself.

For example:

"But we need our substitutes to get through the day, a day littered with reminders that we don't have everything we want. Or at least, we tell ourselves that story, as a substitute for really knowing what we want in the first place."

1. Speak for yourself. Don't ever include me in a 'we' with you.

2. What does this have to do with the shows you are supposed to be reviewing. Oh nothing? I forgot. You're not really a reviewer you are a snarky self obssessed internet autobiographer. Obviously the only way you can feel good about yourself is to make fun of The Hills girls and the people who watch the Hills. Since you suck as a critic I guess you got to feel good about yourself somehow. Pathetic!

But, with friends of different sexes there can be that tension and sometimes it's not pleasant. If you're enjoying each others company and you are both on the same page about where it should go sexually, then why not? If he tries to pull something on you say no. Unless you are into it. Or unless your in rehab with Woody Allen or Roman Polanski.

Cause it feels good seems like it would be the obvious answer.

Anyway, what's with this stud/slut dichotomy? I never run into people who use this language. TCF must hang with a real conservative crowd I guess.

"the Brits are doing what the Yanks can't"

Personally, I don't think of art as a competitive endeavor.

These guys can't see past next week. For Andrew and Tom every issue is the end of the world. They don't qualify anything. That's why they are so popular. They're smart though. Once in a million years will someone call them on their past BS predictions. They are creatures of the weekly cycle. Neither will be read 10 years past their expiration date.

Betsy McCaughey - I don't know. God damn those teeth!

And people have their preferences. Some women don't like short guys. Some women don't like Asian guys and some do.

Serena does nothing for me. She just isn't my type.

Blood Simple, maybe Fargo if the accents weren't so exaggerated and the schtick was dialed down a little.

They make way to many mock humorous, pretentious films for my taste though. Like they have to dial up the *quirkiness* or whatever. Barton Fink anyone? There was a worthwhile idea for a movie in there.

I'm for health care reform and I voted for Obama. But, one of the concerns with universal health care in this country is that it's expensive. France is a small country that can afford health care *because* they aren't trying to cover tens of millions of illegal immigrants from the third world.

Most Americans don't want to pay taxes to cover the health care of people who came here illegally. Seems reasonable to me. Guess that makes me a 'nativist'.

I just think Mexico should pay for it, not the US. What with most illegals being Mexican citizens and all.

Let's see, if I live in Mexico and I sneak across the border, I'm automatically entitled to free health care which I'm not going to get in Mexico (which alas, is not France), why wouldn't every sick, diseased person in Mexico do it?

The majority of health care costs don't come from infectious disease btw. In any case, no one is saying illegals can't go to Walgreens and buy the flu shot.

Despite the fact that everyone there is supposedly hard working and honest and better than Americans. I must be missing something.

"If you can let your fellow humans suffer illness and injury and deny them care for greed and love of money and profits then you are a monster." Right. I'm sure you give all you're $ to Oxfam and live on a diet of rice and water out of sympathy with the residents of Mumbai.

"Much construction work is also done by undocumented workers."

Which drives the wages of construction workers down thus making Americans poorer. And now the people being displaced by illegals are supposed to pay for their health care too and if they don't it's because they're bigots.

Because if you import millions of illegals, theyre going to make the US like the place they are trying to flee.

Not sure why you hate 'crackers' so much. They created the country your beloved illegals die to get into.

'Actually, we are all moving to Mexico. Crumbling infrastructure. Increasing wealth concentration. Economic stagnation. Declining standards of education. Declining standards of health.'

So importing millions of impoverished people will help this situation how? Thanks for making my point.

"Adding millions of people who are willing to risk everything just for the opportunity to work their fingers to the bone to make a better life for themselves is absolutely what this country needs."

Check out the shanty towns around Mexico City. If that's how you want to live then mass illegal immigration is definitely for you.

Soleil - "In a perfect world, no one would die of starvation, everyone would get a free education through university and even the most extraordinary measures to preserve life at all costs would be a universal right and this would be true across the globe. Sorry folks, we live in a world of finite resources and hard decisions must be made. Let's figure out how in the hell we are going to cover legal residents of the country before we take on people who are here illegally."

Exactly right. Well said.

Right. That never happens in Mexico.

In any case, if you object to people being paid cheaply for their labor, you'd be adamantly opposed to illegal immigration.

Me too. I think workers should be paid well. Undercutting their wages by flooding the labor pool is the worst thing you can do to someone trying to earn a living.

This is basic economics.