ginger rant commented on Highly Insightful Theatre Criticism

"Okay, fine: Hunter Parrish is so adorable blah de blah blah blah but can someone out there please indulge me and talk about his Weeds costar Justin Kirk for a little while?"

ginger rant commented on Tom Pynchon Is the Blurb World Champion

"When I publish my first book, I'm getting the most enthusiastic blurb ever, from someone with impeccable taste--my mom."

ginger rant commented on Jackson Browne Confronts John McCain With His Failures

"@4th and 26: Was wondering if I was going to have to be the killjoy to bring this up."

ginger rant commented on The Best Of Wacky Packages

"@Nic Fit: Actually, I'm guessing that's because you're an old, like me."

ginger rant commented on The Best Of Wacky Packages

"I would have gone with "Crust Toothpaste," myself."

ginger rant commented on We Don't Know How Harvey Weinstein Does It

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ginger rant commented on 5 Reasons Media Companies Need To Shell Out For Huge World Events

"Also, do we know what specific charity the money is going to?"

ginger rant commented on 5 Reasons Media Companies Need To Shell Out For Huge World Events

"I don't see Brad."

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@FlipTurn: Agreed re: your point that it should be no more unsavory for a man to cheat on a wife than for a wife to cheat on a husband (if I'm reading you correctly)."

ginger rant commented on Next For Edwards: Hell

"@Jerilyn: Yes, yes, and more yes."

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@nycheartbreaker: Just to clarify, because you are mistaking my lament as Puritan, which it decidedly is not: I'm not saying that all politicians hold themselves up as pillars."

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@ginger rant: D'oh!"

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@friend_of_a_friend: @kitkatsplash: @nycheartbreaker: But the point is that THESE PEOPLE ARE PUBLIC FIGURES AND THEY ARE HOLDING THEMSELVES UP AS PILLARS, and--well lookie there!--they are not what they have claimed (sanctimoniously, tireless) to be."

ginger rant commented on Next For Edwards: Hell

"@ADismalScience: (Psst ..."

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@La Cieca: I appreciate your point that we should keep out of other people's sex lives, but that's not my gripe: my gripe is the hypocrisy."

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@ouiserboudreaux: Word!"

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"@City_Dater: Since when did women NOT have the choice to stay with men who cheated on them?"

ginger rant commented on Edwards Admits Affair

"My big take-away from this is that Elizabeth Edwards is a doormat, and I fear that the public will extrapolate and conclude that, since Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Silda Spitzer all put up cheerfully with their cheater-pants husbands, ergo, all women are doormats, and men won't face any consequences for cheating on their wives. Okay, I'm upset right now."