Please stop looking to celebrities for answers

Sharon Stone edifies us all with her comments about the Middle East:

"It feels to me that we have an opportunity ... to choose understanding in a new way," she told a press conference in Paris when asked about her trip.

"And it really is just a breath. It's just an agreement that's just a breath. We are not far apart. We can choose to have this alternative kind of growth that is a collective nuance of understanding.

Thanks for clearing that up, dear.