For good or ill I think it’s mostly a form of intellectual gate keeping. Which I generally see as a bad thing, though sometimes I despair for how low the standards for critical analysis and discourse have fallen. There should be a balance in good academic writing between populist ease of understanding and specialized…

While it’s encouraging to see lots of people mourning Justice Ginsburg, and appreciating how consequential her replacement on the High Court will be for the lives of almost every American, I think we also need to step back and recognize something: Only about 39% of Americans can identify all three branches of…

We’ll probably lose abortion in red states for forty years, but legalize in blue states. The question is what else will the supreme court be up to? They will become an arm of the conservative regime now, a regime built entirely for and by the rich. All of our current issues will be exacerbated for profit.

I tried with that one. I think I got to the part where he started going on about the lessons imparted by his childhood barber and I went, “You know what? I don’t care.” And I never picked it up again. 

I kept wondering “Who’s Jerry Harris on Cheers? That Paul guy who was in Office Space?”

I was like, “Jared Harris was on Cheers? And if so, why would you use that as his identifying show, when there’s Mad Men?”

I read that as well and freaked out.  Not Norm!

Same. Then I looked at the header and was all like, “I don’t remember a black guy regular in Cheers.”

I am so fuckin’ old.

Me too, and I was like, that’s not how Cheers is spelled. . . . My bad. 

‘Norm!’

Came here to post “Norm!” regardless of the story, was disappointed it’s some other show.

Let’s hope Maya has to make the bicoastal trek for the next 12 years (4 as VP, 8 as President!) 

Make Westeros great again.

I was so happy to see Byrne on an SNL with Mulaney hosting in Feb/March (pre-COVID). His performances with his troupe were an absolute joy and his appearance in the airport skit made me love him even more.

Calling idiots idiots is not thought policing, idiot.

Think of the first right-wing entertainer that comes to mind. He’s terrible at his job, right? Independent of politics, whether it’s Dennis Miller or Kid Rock, it’s probably somewhere between baffling and infuriating that this guy has a career.

Like that gun-toting couple speaking at the RNC, there’s a whole cottage…

Heck, forget COVID. Imagine going up to someone dying of ebola or cancer and calling them a pussy. That’s basically what Adam Carolla did. 

This is a well made show but the pacing seems off. It’s burning through story so quickly! These two episodes could have been an entire season. In fact, them finding Montrose and George dying felt like what should happen in a season finale. Instead, they have the characters figuring out the entire story in like 5…