I smoke pot. I love it. I'm also in law school so I stop smoking pot for long periods of time (exams, paper writing etc..) I start working for a biglaw firm this summer, and I probably won't smoke then. In fact, it's become less and less a part of my life.

There is no way that pot is more harmful than booze - I've seen the effects of both close-up and statistically. I don't know if its that I live in Canada, where the majority are in favour of legalization and we don't face prison time for simple possession, but marijuana just doesn't have the same stigma up here.

But here's the thing. A guy who lies to the woman that he ostensibly loves about what he does for a living for 2 years is messed up. This is not a spy movie where she thought he worked in a bank, but hey, it's okay because he fights terrorists for a living! She was right to get the hell out of their. This is the kind of guy who would rack up years of debt and then tell you about it when the bank forecloses on the house you bought together. Lying about something key is wrong. Period. Further, that level of subterfuge is beyond most people. When someone manages to pull it off, it's usually indicative of a chilling ability to compartmentalize, or a skewed morality.

And you know what? She searched though his stuff because she knew he was up to something. He probably oozed paranoia and transparently made shit up about his whereabouts. I'm not saying she was right to do it, she should have left him when her gut told her that he was a liar.

So it's not okay to have sex with children, right? And this is because, at least to a large extent, children do not enjoy the same power, psychological or physical, as adults.

How is having sex with an animal different? Oh sure, an adult may not comprehend or be harmed by the shame or taboo of having had sex with an adult human, but how is it acceptable to have sex with a creature which has been trained to obedience, cannot vocalize desires or say no, and which would never pursue interspecies sex? Disgusting, predatory creeps is what these people are, and I have so much more sympathy for those horses, beautiful animals who never asked to be used for the pleasure of perverted humans. We keep them in little pens, pump them up on drugs, make them do tricks in disregard for their every natural instinct. Do we really need find more ways to degrade and abuse animals. Bleh! and bleh!

Ok, so maybe I'm uncool for admitting it, but I love a good romantic comedy. January is a horrid month, especially here in the northern climes. Also I've been single for what feels like ages. Actually for what is ages.

Time for a date movie - hell, maybe even a date. Can't wait. I think I'm thawing out.

I think that is the first positive thing you've ever posted! Just when I'd consigned you to the Archie Bunker file you go and surprise me with a sweet post. I bet you actually love kitties. Cute, adorable, pink nosed furry-wurry love muffins!

Canada has about the same female:male ratios in law schools, and we've probably tracked the U.S. for the last few generations, yet our Chief Justice is a woman and a total of 4 out of 9 judges on the Supreme Court (that's including Chief Justice McLachlin) are women.

Feelings cannot be divided up in terms of those to which we are entitled and those to which we are not. We simply have them. And some feelings are irrational, hateful, and ought not to be vindicated in any way by society in general.

Hardaway hates homosexuals (entitled or not). His blatant trumpeting of his hate, and his conclusion that, because he hates them, they ought not to exist, are not harmless expressions of feeling. It is a very serious statement that has chilling implications when one considers what such 'feelings' would look like if put into action. Such statements are harmful. They contribute to an overall atmosphere of hate, they encourage those who hold hateful views to portray their views as mainstream, and can influence others to put their prejudices into action (especially when you consider that they emanate from a sports star, who exerts greater than average cultural influence with many).

Mr. Hardaway's hateful (and harmful) statements entitle, even oblige, right-thinking people to castigate the man and his opinions, and to exert social pressure on him and others to move away from a hate-based philosophy, towards tolerance and perhaps even enlightenment.

see above.

P.S.: Rob, you...you...Archie Bunker!

I adore Alec Baldwin. I've always thought of him as an o.k. sort of actor, but then I started watching 30-Rock, and now I'm obsessed. Jack Donaghy is a class-A, 28 carat prick, but he's also gorgeous and funny as hell.

I've started to recall how good he was in Glengarry Glen Ross, and I'm thinking it's time for an Alec Baldwin film fest chez moi. Thanks for the reminder.

The grim bordom of living in a police state, the cynical and falsly premised idea that power must be given up to the state in the name of security, the vulnerability of refugees and minorities in facist systems. the interconnectedness of humans with all other parts of the ecosystem, the disastrous possibilities if we fail to realize that our survival depends on maintaining a baseline level of environmental integrity, and the fact that hope is our greatest weapon and that despair can kill intellect and humanity.

You must have been too busy watching the action sequences, because you missed the film.