In response to For G-d so Loved the World...: Liz, I'm speechless. I mean this is just so funny to me. 

On a more serious note, I would love to see Kanye propose to and eventually marry Kim. As I understand it, (my man card may be revoked for this) Kim is still going through an exhaustive divorce/annulment mess with Chris Humphrey's. Nevertheless, once that dust settles, I can totally see Kanye rocking a kilt, getting down on one knee and popping the question to Kim. No? 

In response to All "Girls" Deserve a Happy Ending:

Listen, I was forced to watch "Sex and the City" by my ex. Actually, I watched the show quite a bit because I enjoyed seeing how women are almost always the reason for relationships ending. Guys are always blamed for being at fault, when in reality, women are just guilty of causing a relationship to end. 

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Just speechless.

In response to License to Kill:

Ace, you're stuck in the past."Toxic atmospheres" aka "the climate of hate" are so two years ago. The takeaway from the Chris Dorner episode is he's "America's most unlikely gun Control advocate."

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In response to I've Finally Started Watching 'Girls'...:

Great post, Ezra.  I haven't seen "Girls" yet, but I was wary of the knee-jerk criticism that many had against it.  It reminded me of all the criticism of "Sex and the City" when it first aired.  Critics panned it for depicting "women having sex like men."  If they had actually watched more than one or two episodes they would have seen that a central theme of the show was that the feminists' notion of sexual freedom left them feeling alone.  By the end of the series, every character (including Samantha, the one who was "successful" in loveless dating) only found her happy ending after finding a committed partner or by starting a family. 

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About a year ago I work/watched Lena Dunham's debut film "Tiny Furniture" when someone else streamed it from my TV. Wasn't too impressed, so I was pretty ambivalent about her HBO series "Girls." Then came her Obama campaign ad, which meant that every conservative on Twitter instantly became an expert on Dunham's looks, her moral character, the ins and outs of her sex life, etc.

The contrarian in me hates that—the herd bullying, the kneejerk hate of someone you've never met or studied in any meaningful way just so you can fit in with people you like. So I figured I'd eventually watch the show, just to see whether she was actually a hateful partisan like a young, hipster Sam Mendes, depicting a nihilistic, depraved reality to stick it to all the people she hates.

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I'm quite certain that the media is just working on its strong condemnation of a "toxic atmosphere" in which murder is celebrated and deranged persons celebrate "Second Amendment Solutions" and also toxic talking heads on extremist partisan news networks who suggest that we have to take the concerns of serial killers seriously and thereby send the message that if you want your political beliefs to triumph you should probably shoot 3-6 people to death.

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In response to The Black Community's Dichotomy on Gun Violence:

What's particularly concerning is guys like Ab-Soul start to gin up this following for Dorner, so if Dorner is killed by police in a shootout situation, every black activist will be out there saying the police used excessive force. The three people he allegedly killed are forgotten by everyone if not become part of some conspiracy theory. If Dorner goes to jail, he gets the Tookie Williams or Mumia Abu Jamal treatment from the black community. 

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In response to Hip-Hop Artist to L.A. Shooting Suspect: 'This Was A Necessary Evil...God Bless You Sir':

I could spend hours writing this and get no closer to explaining it. There are those who circle the wagons around being black first, foremost, only ... you get the idea. Add to this a disaffected segment of our population. 

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Ab-Soul, a California Interscope Records Hip Hop artist, made remarks on his Instagram page Friday night expressing his support for Christopher Dorner —  a former Navy reservist who was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008. Dorner  is now suspected of fatally shooting three people and injuring two others in an act of revenge. :

As the manhunt continued as far north as the San Bernardino Mountains, late Thursday, Interscope Records rapper Ab-Soul posted a photo defending the fugitive on his Instagram page, quoting Dorner’s 11,400-word manifesto, in which he outlines plans to kill law enforcement officers and their family members.

“This was a necessary evil,” Ab-Soul posted, quoting Dorner’s manifesto, and adding his own comment: “God Bless You Sir.”

So far, the post has received more than 3,200 likes and 500 comments, many supporting the statements.

One commenter calling themselves Popsapien referred to Dorner as “The BLACK RAMBO” and another, Gnodiaz replied: “Everyone else [is] misinformed idiots. He killed officers as a statement because the system he worked in was corrupt and they discharged him [from] attempting to reveal how corrupt it was.”

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