I grew up watching Hollywood movies and American TV shows and it literally took a single remark by Jennifer Jason Leigh, sometime in the mid 1990s, to wake me up to how American media deals with the people who are being bullied, daily.

Meanwhile in Ireland.

Pretty much the definition of ‘Media Whore’.

I’m feeling some serious schadenfreude now. In fact I realise I’m feeling sorry for her and her family. Which... yeah. Conflicting.

So is a collage protest like when a group of angry people walk around waving mixed-media and felt, with some papier-maché and black-and-white photography based signage using letters cut from vintage Eastern European newspapers and christmas lights?

It’s telling that the First Amendment to the US constitution is followed by the Second.

It’s the oldest play in the Bumper Book Of Fucking Over Other People And Taking All Their Stuff:

*ahem*

So basically; All of those groups who voted for him because all the options seemed like more of the same, Rule by Wealth, etc. might as well as have voted for Stalin instead of the Tzar.

This is excellent. Keep up the good work!

Now I’m imagining a younger, sylph-like Melania mounting a shaved orangutan.

Well in my case it wouldn’t be humblebragging, just a statement of fact.

There have been many great movies made outside of America for a long, long time.
And for that length of time, Hollywood has developed a disgusting habit of cloning them and either bribing the original makers to ‘get on board’ or threatening to sue them into poverty.

Probably. There’s a large community of Germans who’ve lived in the west of Ireland for nearly a century now and many of them changed their names to blend in or in some cases, avoid retribution from the German authorities. Many were deserters or refugees during WWI and WWII but also a lot more emigrated during the…

Oh I knew about the backlash and dislike for him alright, but that family of cheerleaders.... fuck me.

Maybe Bono’s pulling the ‘Irish’ angle. As in, any ridiculously tenuous link to Ireland and we can all be friends together.

I wonder if any of the passengers on 118 took video of this. I’d love to see video from inside the Eurofighter’s cockpit more though.

The first commandment of Comedy is: Always Be Funny.

Speaking as an atheist: Nearly a decade ago, when Maher was making sense about the intrinsic evil of religion as an organised criminal con game operated by various gangs for centuries, to see him suddenly start hating on one of them (clue: Islam) was disturbing.

I too used to think it was bad that women were treated as second-class citizens, if not simply property.
But then I changed my opinion and went to clubs where I’d meet young women and spike their drinks and rob them (if they were ugly) or rob them and get a taxi back to my place where I’d fuck them (if they were hot)…