This looks so bad it's embarrassing, but if you're star-struck and like big explosions...!

It will be a nice step forward for the country, the day we have a woman-president.

But not her.

I wish people would get over their star-struck nature with this person. She's the same old song in a slightly different body.

He usually does a better job of mixing the guests and allowing them all to talk. It's my favorite part of his shows, when the big super stars are treated the same as the least famous person on the couch.

Johnny Depp had him star struck as well.

Still and all, a lovely time watching.

Isn't it great fun? Ariely does such cool research. I saw him standing in the foyer of the hotel I stayed at in St. Louis. He was attending a satellite conference on decision making that was part of the larger psychology conference I was at. I should've gone over and introduced myself, but was too star-struck/shy.

His book is really the only book on behavioural economics / decision making that I've read though, so I can't recommend anything else. There's always a google scholar search -- it's an area that's becoming increasingly popular -- but reading journal articles isn't nearly as fun as a book. Academics are adept at sucking the joy out of everything!


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I'm loving the book you recommended. I'm 2/3 of the way through and it's downright epiphanal. I posted a comment very much influenced by this book here:

http://videosift.com/video/Jon-Stewart-Interview-with-Diane-Ravitch-on-Education?loadcomm=1#comment-1166242

join the conversation if you like.

Make me a reading list, you brilliant fucker!

The situation is amusing, commentaries are not.

I liked how an ex-president is covering for the current president. That's mildly amusing.

But I would've rather preferred it without Jon's self confession of his man crush "Ohh, ahh, It's Bill Clinton! OMG! I'm so star-struck!"

*promote after stumbling over this old ST post.

^ Actually, Jon Stewart hosted the Tribute they had for George Carlin a few years back. He was completely star-struck throughout the entire duration of the interview, and didn't have enough nice things to say about George and all that he's done for comedy and Jon Stewart himself.

Case in point, Comedy would NOT be what it is today if it weren't for George Carlin. He pioneered the dirty, edgy side of the comedy scene. While the scene was filled with comedians making family-friendly jokes, Carlin was talking about the legendary 'Seven Words'. Talk to most older adults, and they'll tell you how when they were kids, they had Carlin albums hidden away from their parents.

I agree that no matter what their looks, women can be targets. I also agree that buying into fear is not the way to go. When I was young, I was never afraid and my parents never cautioned me in any way, either, but I did get into some tricky situations and suffered because of it.

The deadly onslaught was a bit of writer's licence, but for many women, not an exaggeration at all.

I've met victims of date rape. One woman who went out with friends and woke up in a basement, naked, obviously been raped, but had no memory of anything. When I met her she was waiting to hear back re all the blood tests that she had to go through. One older woman met a guy on the internet and went out with him a couple of times.
She was date-raped at the good old age of mid-fifty. He didn't drug her, just coerced her. Didn't listen when she said no and overpowered her in various ways.

What I was trying to explain by sharing my experience, was that I felt like I was on show, like something for consumption, with lots of comments as well as physical advances and I often felt unequipped to deal with it.

I wouldn't advocate mace or anything else, only because it means having a level of prepared-ness that I would be incapable of holding onto and function normally at the same time. I'd always be on high alert and this would drive me crazy.

I was raped too, by someone I knew well and who had a position of authority over me. At 21, I was so star-struck by this guy that it took me about 10 years to realise that at that time, I felt I had no voice, that it wasn't appropriate and that I didn't want it at all. I just needed somewhere to stay and someone to listen to me. Instead, I got the works.

I think this issue is as much about young women needing a strong sense of themselves, as anything else. Why isn't it instilled in women that they are not some thing that can be chewed up and spat out, for someone else's pleasure? The beauty bit just means that the male attention can be constant and blatant. I wasn't trying to say that only beautiful women suffer.

I do wish I had someone to look out for me at that time. My parents didn't, neither did my friends and I was too dumb to realise what poor choices I was making.

Glad to say that time is over now. Aging fast with post-baby belly that never recovered, I don't have to fear the deadly onslaught either!

I seen a bunch of celebs bouncing around Montreal, but I never really felt star struck, because they would never talk to you normally anyway, to them you are some crazed fan. To me, almost all of them seemed like snobs, only vaguely covering up their real identity.

The only real star struck I had was when I met Lieutenant-General Roméo Alain Dallaire at a development conference out in Ottawa. I really admired this man, his efforts in Rwanda and his relentless pursuit of trying to change Canadians outlook on what Canada should mean on the International stage in the 21st Century.

He seemed like a big sad bear.