Today, Clinton Romesha was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during the Battle of Kamdesh. His young son Colin completely stole the show, however, when he ventured out behind the podium and had to be coralled back to his mother by some White House marines. I guess if it takes two marines to get little Colin Romesha to his seat at 3 years old, it’s not hard to see why 400 Taliban couldn’t keep his father coralled in Afghanistan, either.
Incidentally, the Romesha family is Mormon (it’s #10 on the list). That should have been obvious to me just based on the video, but I’m sad to say I didn’t clue in until after I read the article.
The clear implication is that Girls is an origin tale of sorts, chronicling what life was like for Dunham before she got it together and made it big. But in reality, Dunham and her castmates, all of comparable pedigree, are by and large playing characters far less privileged than they are. AtGirls‘s worst moments, the show veers dangerously close to mocking people poorer than her. Its most prominent theme — Hannah’s irresponsibility, laziness, and self-satisfaction — seems less a systemic critique of unpaid creative internships than an allegation that middle class kids who wish to pursue the same career paths as their upper class friends are spoiled and bratty. In a particularly grating scene, Hannah’s mother shrilly screams that she is cutting her daughter off because she wants a lake house. But it is simply good parenting for members of the middle class to steer their children away from fields that don’t promise a steady income. They don’t have the luxury of supporting their children forever, even if they’re willing to forego their desire to “sit by a fucking lake.”
