Montreal

Cold, crystaline

Poutine

Beautiful black girls

Sweaty dancing

The river, the snow, the lights

J'aime Montreal!

Both Banana Republic and the Gap (same owner) use a vastly different sizing system than had been used previously. It's called 'vanity sizing', and the Gap has denied doing it, but it's a fact. Here's a few articles:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,57672,00.html

http://www.herhighnessness.com/2004/10/size-aint-nothin-but-number.html

http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2005-04-19/whitford-vanitysizing

As a kid, I made some money. Nowhere nears as much as this kid I'm sure. My family was working class poor, and things were tight. I gave most of the money to my family, and was allowed to buy some things that I wanted (within reason). I was and am proud that I was able to help out my siblings and parents. That is what families do.

If this was an Asian, an East Indian, a Middle Eastern family, this would not even be an issue. You help other members of your family financially because the better off the individual family members are, the better off the family as a whole. As a child actor, work often peters out during adolescence. Mom should make sure that her child saves sufficient funds for a decent education or business start-up or whatever contingency plan comes along. But having an older sibling, who has gotten a good start, without debt, and is hopefully working at a decent job, is something that has intrinsic value for the younger child, and the family unit as a whole. It is not money blown on drugs! The child is not planning to buy his brother a BMW!!! We're talking about one member of a family, who has more money than they currently need, helping another, who has less money than they need!

In other cultures, families pay for the education of cousins, neices, nephews, brothers, sisters, and 12 year olds look after several younger siblings while parents work, and you know what? They do fine! They don't worry that such generosity may be caused by mental illness, or that it may scar the child, they just look out for one another. Money should be managed wisely. Looking after your own is the best investment there is, and this kid is intuitively aware of this.

'In a democracy, the voters pick the politicians; the politicians don’t pick the voters.'

The real problem with not allowing felons to vote, is that the government also decides what behaviours are criminal, and this sort of system can too easily be used for political purposes.

Here's a for instance: 2 parties run against each other. One advocates for liberal marijuana laws, the other says "lock pot-head up and throw away the key". Now lets say the police are efficient and the 2nd view has been the dominant one. So you have a prison population where 10-15% of the inmates are in jail for marijuana possession, and they would almost certainly vote for a government that favoured de-criminalization. But wait! They can't vote. Now take marijuana, and substitute free speech and you've got a really big problem. Moreover, when the prison demographics are skewed (here in Canada aboriginal people are greatly over-represented), you run the risk of disenfranchising a large segment of an already disadvantaged group.

In Canada, we used to have a law that said that inmates in federal prisons (sentences of 2 years or more) could not vote. In 2002 that was struck down by the Supreme Court. The defendant was, of course, the Attorney General, and it was noted that "Almost all of the defendants' witnesses are American citizens, American scholars, or American residents, or they have been primarily educated and trained in the United States."

But I've got a secret soft spot for Ricky Gervais. Oh and Adrian Brody is a sloe eyed god,and so is Adrian Pasdar. And Robert Downey Junior is such a bad boy but his beautiful dark eyes are so soft and lovely...Daniel Craig as 007, Enrico Colantoni (yes, I've got a crush on Veronica's Dad!).

I agree with almost every selection on the Salon List, as well as the inspired choices in these letters. Benicio is stunning, Chjwetel Ejiofor is lucious. Must..stop...now.

The little voice in the back of my head where I keep repressed memories of school is telling me that I should have written per se. But you get my drift.