If forgiveness is selfish, is the original anger generous?

I loved "Ernest & Celestine," too. You're right, it was a welcome departure from the animation juggernauts of Disney and Pixar. Foreign animators definitely take more risks with style. Perhaps it's because of lower budgets? Whatever the reason, "Ernest & Celestine" came out beautifully, and was more pleasing on the eye than "Frozen," which I also loved. I wonder if the animation team will actually make a sequel, like they insinuated. There is certainly more source material available.

stay the course, young Jedi. Succeed you will. ;)

You've got spunk, Shawn, going headfirst into a dying industry. Good luck!

DON'T. GIVE. UP. SHAWN.

I've always been able to ignore the meme stuff simply because of the brilliance of his 1995 Academy Award-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas (and possibly my 80s fascination with all things Valley Girl). Will have to check out Joe. Thanks.

Frank should have died. This season has proved that the supporting characters can support the show, and that they're no longer just supporting characters. I liked Lip nearly failing out of college. It showed that the writers regretted making him such an unrealistic genius, capable of acing AP exams without ever going to class. Looking back on it, I bet they wished they toned down his genius.

I admit that sometimes I don't agree with Mugger, but he is always a must read for me. He knocked it out of the park here.

I'm not convinced that the phenomenon of addiction isn't a brain malformation, as other neurological disorders like schizophrenia, BPD, and clinical depression. Drugs are often used to allay the pain of diseases like this, but I'm not sure drug addiction always comes from somewhere else, as a symptom, that it is the beginning and end. But, as you said, cultural stigma and the abstract nature of the brain make things like this extremely difficult to assess.

But Russ, what else are these kids going to do with all their health-care savings? Pay bills?

Although I see where you are coming from Nicky, I strongly disagree with the labeling of addiction as a "disease". Physical addiction is basically having the effects of withdrawal. Not a disease that can be caught or a malfunction of the body. It can be deadly and very hard to overcome on one's own, but is quite clearly a physical reaction to the lack of a chemical normally introduced into the body. If you work out every day, you may feel like crap the day you don't work out due to a lack of endorphins. In this sense it fits more as a symptom than a disease. As for psychological addiction, this seems to be more related to self-medicating. Many addicts, as you mention in this article, are suffering from actual maladies like depression, anxiety, bi-polar, etc;. They take drugs and become reliant on those drugs because their disease is so disturbing to them any relief is better than none. Because of attitudes towards mental health in our society, many choose to find the "easy solution". In many parts of our society, there is less stigma towards casual drug use than being treated for mental health. Furthermore, the effort required to properly diagnose and treat through both medicine and CBT, is much greater and time consuming than buying a baggie or bottle of drugs/alcohol. In other words, this "addiction" is more like treating a cold with pain killers than a disease in itself. It makes you feel better but does nothing for the underlying cause. aka The wrong treatment for the unidentified ailment. Just my thoughts for what they are worth. I also think understanding addiction as a symptom instead of as a disease will be the beginning for better treatment of the initial problems that cause this symptom. I've seen few people "recover" from addiction without understanding what led them down the road in the first place.

Interesting comments from Dr. Andrews on the rise of UCL injuries. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/10/dr-james-andrews-explains-why-tommy-john-surgery-is-on-the-rise/