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Heavy cloud cover here in Vancouver BC (no surprise),

Not my Bandit. Only the top spot for Bandit. Bandit for gold!:cheer2::cheer2::cheer2:

When did Kaori become a feminist icon? Why? IIRC she skated to music stating 'I love being a woman'? Hardly a reason for her to be a feminist icon. April Fools, I suppose.

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I've never organized my bookshelves! What's most important is that like all good intellectuals, I have a hardcover copy of The Communist Manifesto on hand. Can't say that I've read more than a few paragraphs here and there, however. :scream:

I would like to watch the ISU coverage but am sure CBC in Canada will block it. Is the solution to that a VPN? Can someone explain how to do that? Thanks in advance.

This isn't Minnesota either. General temp is 3 degrees C right now, around 45 F for the next few days. My car has been snowed in for a few days - we don't do snow here well on the Pacific West Coast. Mr. Japanfan has snow tires and is zipping about just fine (works closer to the mountains)...

I remember how proud Eteri was of Lipnitskaya when she starved herself on a powder diet, prior to being admitted to an eating disorder clinic in Israel. I wonder how controlling Eteri is of her skaters' eating habits in general. I think probably too much? She's the last person who who should...

We do have an HDMI connection - used it tonight to watch some of Nats.

Not this TV, we could on our laptop, and this one is a new TV (just got it a few months ago). That makes sense that there is no contract, I'd not thought of that. Hope you are right about Gem.

Not to mention, the stands looked quite empty to me - from what I saw on TV.

I expect the coverage to be the same for Worlds. We used to be able to hook our laptop up to the TV to watch skating on the bigger screen, but our new TV doesn't have a hook up for the laptop. Ironically, we got the new TV to have a bigger, better screen for FS. Have to find a way to get...

The difference is more victims. A one-off drunken event that involves rape is still rape. In saying 'MANY men and women' have done things they regret, you excuse the behavior of a rapist, and that is really not okay. And yes, do seem to being trying to excuse the one-off behavior. The...

I just watched May-December. I was disappointed. Surprised to see a reviewer at Ebert.com give it four stars. Much preferred Far from Heaven, also made by Todd Haynes. That is one of my favorite films of all time.

I didn't care for the movie at all. Thought its best audience was teenage girls who hadn't yet taken Women's Studies 101.