[A Navy Vet]

And liberals still claim that Hollywood doesn't affect our culture. It's supposedly just "window" on our culture. Unfortunately, if you make the "window" large enough and it repeatedly shows different unworkable reality through it, people will eventually believe. Is there any other explanation for all the inane reality shows?

There's a reason that Madison Avenue spends billions and billions of dollars on advertising, promotion, and essentially propaganda - it works. We are now a sorry nation of celebrity worshipers, rioters over the latest cool sneaker, accept un-natural life-styles, and no longer believe in the traditional values that built the World's greatest nation . America has been dumbed down...not sure there is any return. However, we fight on.

[scrabblehack]

Rooney Mara - isn’t that the seed of the Steeler and Giant families?