I’m going to get a lot of dis­ap­pointed vis­i­tors for this one. Three cit­i­zens of the Greek island of Les­bos (also spelt Lesvos) are suing a Greek orga­ni­za­tion named “Homo­sex­ual and Les­bian Com­mu­nity of Greece” over the use of the word “Les­bian” in the organization’s name. The islanders claim that their geo­graph­i­cal demonym (“Les­bian”) has been unjustly co-​​​​opted by the orga­ni­za­tion to their detri­ment. They want the Greek gov­ern­ment to pro­hibit the orga­ni­za­tion from using the term “Les­bian” in its name. There is inter­na­tional prece­dent for the islanders’ claim. Terms like cham­pagne, chi­anti, and Roque­fort are restricted by laws in var­i­ous coun­tries to prod­ucts [ . . . ]

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Some movies just aren’t avail­able in any other for­mat. I once had a room­mate who had a large col­lec­tion of movies on laserdisc that were either unavail­able on DVD or were oth­er­wise greatly supe­rior to the DVD ver­sions. Among them was The Cheap Detec­tive, writ­ten by Neil Simon and star­ring Peter Falk, Made­line Kahn, Eileen Bren­nan, Stockard Chan­ning, Sid Ceasar, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, and a half-​​​​score of oth­ers in a WWII detec­tive spoof. It is one of those come­dies, for which Simon had a pen­chant, that was able to pull off absur­dity with­out devolv­ing into farce. I actu­ally like it bet­ter than its more-​​​​popular pre­de­ces­sor, Mur­der [ . . . ]

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