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Peninsula, please shut up. I'd like to hear your message, but until you figure out how to preach it without resorting to fallacy or cruelty, please shut up. Joel Derfner...
...matter how good an individual--could ever be a better parent than a heterosexual. In fact, he denies that homosexuals can be parents at all. In other words, child-beater Joan Crawford was a better mother than Professor of English and American Literature Barbara Johnson would be. Child-killer Joel Steinberg was a better father than Plummer Professor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J. Gomes would be. We think this is pure nonsense...
Experiences can be altered as they are hauled out of memory. Remembering is an act of reconstruction, not reproduction. During the process, normal gaps and missing details often get filled in. When Senators asked law professor Joel Paul to describe how Hill sounded years ago when she first told him about being sexually harassed by Thomas, Paul hesitated and then said Hill had sounded embarrassed. "He could have been falling back on a scripted memory of how he would expect someone to act in that circumstance," explains psychologist Douglas Peters of the University of North Dakota. On the other hand...
Milli Vanilli blamed it on the rain. As they sang (well, lip-synched), "You've got to blame it on something." Temporary insanity, stress, PMS--something. Even Joel Steinberg, the rich, white, coke-addicted New York lawyer who beat his wife and killed his baby, claimed that he was a "victim." Of what, I have no idea...
BARTON FINK. The work of two gifted brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen (Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing), this was the first film ever to accomplish the hat trick at the Cannes festival -- Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The Coens revise the legend of innocent talent corrupted by Hollywood...