The Hall of Fire

OK. I think my definition of "it" could be Bill Clintonian vague, but what's the point? It just embodies the reducto ad absurdum nature of the whole media regurgitation of the Palestine issue. Because I'm tired, I'll state what I think in excess of normal qualifications. Israel is an illeg...

My question? Two films?

I feel like I have been inserted into a Kafka short story...

Any chance you could recapitulate and so bring me up to speed? Because I've lost track regarding just how much Palestinians are subject to genocide...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:10 am Yes, I think so.

Lead on, McDuff!

It was obviously organic because, without imposition, the nature of the players changed.
It was the removal of barriers that changed the imperative, not the introduction. Right?
Am I missing something here?

N.E. you just asked me to define something that is indefinable... But... "indigenous" is like string length; how long? However, I will use a utilitarian definition; indigenous describes those who have no recollection of living elsewhere, and whose forbears are not alien to the general loca...

I can never forget this video, which I first saw eight years ago. The music, for those who don't know it, is Andy Williams's cover of the theme from the 1960 film Exodus , based on the Leon Uris book of the same name, which starred Paul Newman and Eva Marie-Saint in a story about the founding of mo...

Why is the "insurrection" in Washington heinous, but the Maidan revolution in Kyiv to be celebrated? And one minor query, that might be more significant than it appears, but isn't the clamour for security in Washington a tacit admission that the politicians are no longer "of the peopl...

(I have no idea whether the current ceasefire will hold. Last night I heard that in the last major Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014, there were ten ceasefires declared and then abandoned before the eleventh finally stuck, until now.) Not directed at you, NEB, but I genuinely despair at how this conflic...

Mind and body are inextricably linked, to the extent that the belief one is being medicated can lead to symptom alleviation. This is described as the "placebo effect", and although poorly understand, it has measurable outcomes, sometimes outcomes that outperform medical treatment. I think ...

Whether because of pressure from progressives in his party or not, it appears that Biden is losing patience with Netanyahu. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/biden-netanyahu-relationship/index.html And yet I still don't think it is going to make any significant difference. :( Or maybe it did....

I think a little analogy may be helpful to understanding why I find the actions of The Jim Henson Company problematic. When the Boy Scouts of America opened membership to girls, it didn't decide to address gender imbalance in the organisation by restricting new membership solely to girls, even thou...

I think a little analogy may be helpful to understanding why I find the actions of The Jim Henson Company problematic. When the Boy Scouts of America opened membership to girls, it didn't decide to address gender imbalance in the organisation by restricting new membership solely to girls, even thoug...

You seem to think having straight white male puppeteers is problematic. I don't. I would note that I didn't ask you specifically about puppeteering. This was what I wrote: I guarantee you that there are fields in which there has been systematic discrimination in favor of straight white males. If a ...

You seem to think having straight white male puppeteers is problematic. I don't. Please don't put words in my mouth . You'll notice that I did not do that to you. Instead I asked you questions to get a better idea of what it was that you believed. To be clear, I do not think that having straight wh...

I don't know the details of the Jim Henson Company's hiring practices, but assuming for the sake of discussion that it has traditionally been unproportionally slanted towards straight white males, would you find that troublesome as well? No. Setting aside the question of whether this action is appr...

But this is not a job. Its a training offer. And I believe that when you have limited resources to provide free training it is okay to target groups that have been denied a living in your field. Again, I agree, if this was a workshop for a or b or c, but this is a workshop for "all except z&qu...

But this is not a job. Its a training offer. And I believe that when you have limited resources to provide free training it is okay to target groups that have been denied a living in your field. Again, I agree, if this was a workshop for a or b or c, but this is a workshop for "all except z&qu...

I care little for discrimination. When a single minority demographic is excluded from a selection process, alarm bells ring for me. What other minority group except straight, white males would it be acceptable to discriminate against? ETA And have turned away enough non-white-men in the past that th...

LA headquartered The Jim Henson Company is seeking “top talent and new creative voices” to “train as puppeteers in the Jim Henson technique”. Attendance at the three week workshop will be by invitation only and dependent on audition. Applicants for audition considered: Members of the LGBTQ+ communit...

"Slag" might not be as inappropriate a name as first appears. ;) Yes, until the guy brought up the idea of it being "inappropriate" I had only ever known slag to be the stuff you skim off the top of molten metal. "Slag" as "promiscuous woman" is more of a Bri...