[Apolitical]

Entertaining and insightful celebrity bashing from pundit extraordinaire, Lin Anderson.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Similarly, when I took sight of the amply-endowed Denise Richards getting all sweaty in shorts and a tank top at a secret installation in that James Bond movie a few years back, I said to myself: "Yep. There's a nuclear scientist, all right."

. . . all of which simply is a illustration of the fact that some excellences are uncorrelated with others. Even in the world of athletics, a good baseball pitcher is almost never a good baseball hitter (at the professional level). And that is becase if you're a good pitcher you can make the bigs whether or not you can hit--whereas even the finest-fielding shortstop or second-baseman won't make the majors without some facility with the lumber.

A pitcher, if he's sensible, hopes only to come to bat with no one on and two outs, so nobody's particularly sorry when he makes an out and goes out to the mound to do what he's actually competent at. A high-school dropout celebrity would be well advised to consider an opportunity to opine on world events as an opportunity to make a fool of herself, and just pass. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that those who lack the prudence to pass on that, also lack the prudence to have a considered conservative opinion on much of anything.

[Greybird]

"The media is sick and tired of people in my position giving their opinions, and yet you ask for my opinion. And then when I give it, you're going to say, 'Why doesn't he shut up?'" -- Daniel Day-Lewis

[lilylangtree]

"we really shouldn't have been at all surprised that members of the Celebrity Class turned out to be such experts on war and foreign affairs in general."

While, as a general rule, these celebrities have absolutely no political experience outside of a script written by someone else and are among the least educated group.