Letters From Hollywood: Roman Polanski's Rape Of Child No Big Thing - celebrities Roman Polanski - Jezebel

Letters From Hollywood: Roman Polanski's Rape Of Child No Big Thing - celebrities Roman Polanski - Jezebel

Kate Harding: "Yes I can totally see how arresting a fugitive child rapist is a slippery slope toward censorship. If I were a creative professional, I'd certainly be concerned about the authorities coming after me and my work! Except, I am a creative professional, and I'm not worried, because unlike Roman Polanski, I have neither raped a child nor jumped bail and evaded capture for three decades. See how that works? Don't rape a child and flee sentencing for it: Enjoy your personal and artistic freedom!"

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Things I hate: mayonnaise, mushrooms, olives, American cheese, hard-boiled eggs, Hollywood movies, Taiwanese coffeeshops and all chain coffeeshops, luxury items, broken electronics, hypocrisy, tyranny and its apologists (you know who you are), war, demigods of hate, religious fundamentalism, the sound of car alarms, subdivisions, manufactured pop music, television, blisters, litter, ignorance.

Things I love: cashews, mangoes, avocados, homemade espresso, Bob Dylan lyrics, Jack Kerouac novels, late night poetry jams, autumn leaves, American football, rowing in the morning, laughter, driving on the highway in the middle of the night, the smell of a woman, tequila, manual focus, the click of a camera, freedom, beauty, excellence, used bookstores, family and friends, contemporary ballet, hardworking students, blue skies, fresh air, mountains, live rock 'n' roll, my sweetheart (stubborn yet magnificent).

To be continued.

Op-Ed Columnist - The Body Count at Home - NYTimes.com

Nicholas D. Kristof - The Body Count at Home - NYTimes.com

"After Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, eight years ago on Friday, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen again. Yet every two months, that many people die because of our failure to provide universal insurance — and yet many members of Congress want us to do nothing?...

My suggestion for anyone in Nikki’s situation: commit a crime and get locked up. In Washington State, a 20-year-old inmate named Melissa Matthews chose to turn down parole and stay in prison because that was the only way she could get treatment for her cervical cancer."