Best of luck to your friend and mentor at his premiere...Enjoy the show!

People like different kinds of music, and hate some kinds. People like some movies or plays and dislike others. We accept that those performances re open to criticism. Why should comics be any different?

I am not a Joan Rivers fan because her jokes are just mean, and I don't find mean funny. Still, that is the comic she has become. If she is going to base her show on saying things that are mean or outrageous, well, she should be prepared for criticism. She is not some special little flower that must be protected.

As to Seth, IMO his humor is geared to 13 year old boys. I am not a 13 year old boy. So, I rarely find Seth funny. I did not find much about his Oscars performance funny.

The only part I felt was beyond the pale were his comments about 9 year old Quevanzene Wallace. His jokes sexualized this little girl. That is never okay. Kids are off limits when it comes to this kind of stuff.

I'm often contracted to analyze social and sociological impacts of major capital improvement / construction projects here in Hawaii and on the west coast, which are sometimes included as part of an EIS / SEIS, and I can assure you and everyone here that a draft document and the final product can be markedly different from one another, once outside comments and input are included.

The approval of an EIS or SEIS constitutes neither final approval or disapproval of a given project itself. Such documents are not meant as advocacy for one side or another, and its authors should not concern themselves with any concurrent debate over the worthiness or impropriety of said project.

In preparing an EIS / SEIS, our job is to gather and analyze the data that's already out there, and report to the best of our abilities what can honestly be expected to occur should said project be approved and subsequently come to fruition.

For example, given the historical data of pipeline incidents that's included in this draft SEIS, one can expect that should there be a breach that causes a spill somewhere along the proposed pipeline's entire length, there is a 57.6% probability that its cause will be internal or external corrosion of the pipe itself, a 24.1% probability that the breach would be caused by an outside manmade force, a 9.7% probability that it would be the result of faulty practices during the active construction phase, and only a 3.1% chance that Mother Nature would be the culprit.

Ideally, such data should prompt a decision maker to further determine whether there are adequate oversight, maintenance and security measures in place to mitigate against potential hazards for pipeline breaches. While we as authors might propose alternatives or possible solutions upon request, we would neither editorialize nor recommend any specific course of action.

Any department or board worth its salt would analyze the information and data provided by an EIS / SEIS, and then use it as one of its criteria for rendering its final recommendation or determination.

Further, it may be that when all is said and done, the summary of data included in the final EIS for the Keystone pipeline, when taken as a whole, could very well make a strong and compelling case for disapproval of the entire enterprise.

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