In retrospect, what John Stewart’s run on the Daily Show did most was to highlight the futility of his particular brand of satire. That haughty, white, urban, affluent, college educated, Northeastern, always acting like they’re above-it-all, “I’m basically a moderately liberal Democrat but I come from a generation…

I feel like they need to stop doing these.

Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his presidential campaign to term.

i got the impression he was saying ‘don’t lump me in with those people who say they aren’t going because they’re woke, i’m not going because i think they look dumb’

to me the only interesting box office story remains anyone but you.

I’ve always thought you could do an interesting comedy based on a true crime that took place back in 1983 when Return of the Jedi was in theaters. In Overland Park, Kansas, thieves forced their way into the projection book of one area theater, in order to steal their film print. Their plan was to make a bootleg copy,…

He ran to the right of Trump on abortion and he failed. The problem is that at least he was honest about that. Trump has a significant number of people convinced he’s not that extreme on abortion, while at the same time taking credit for overturning Roe V Wade.

Now he can focus all of his energy on pissing off Florida’s largest employer. See you in court, gov!

I mean, he does make a point during the movie of criticizing the bad guys specifically for victimizing the elderly. I’m not joking.

If only there’d been some kind of ‘Barbenheimer’ style boost to give them both more ticket sales. It could have been ‘Mean Keeper’.

It was actually doomed from the start when it didn’t star Nicolas Cage...

RIP Mary Weiss since this godforsaken AI-run shitshow can’t be bothered to report on it.

The trailer made it look like it was aimed squarely at the elderly.  “A serious middle aged guy who is a super secret agent with whatever authority you can secretly dream about gets mad when that nice lady you remember from Cosby dies so he kills all the young people that won’t stop calling you during supper.”

I just got back from seeing The Beekeeper. It’s kind of an odd duck; a lot of it is Jason Statham as Generic Invincible Secret Agent Ninja, trashing bozos, but then a larger chunk than I would have anticipated involves the various antagonists wrangling with the moral implications of the system they find themselves in.

As a dad in his 50's who bought tickets to the Green Day/Rancid/Smashing Pumpkins tour the day they went on sale...for $300...I think the establishment won years ago.

$13.6M for an individual. If you are married, you have to be worth $27.2M to owe any estate taxes.

I agree with both of these comments. I spent the first five years of my career as a criminal defense attorney, and I truly don’t get this prosecution. Sure you don’t have to have deliberation or criminal intent for involuntary manslaughter, but you do have to have a degree of recklessness or negligence that is much…

this ‘war’ that has been acknowledged by many, including the ICC, as a genocide.

AFTER surgery?? I’m an anesthetist and we use ketamine regularly DURING cases but I’m always careful not to give any if we’re less than an hour away from the end of surgery precisely because it can cause pretty unpleasant and scary perceptual side effects.

I was administered ketamine in hospital once after major surgery. It was the most destabilising experience I’ve ever had. I was slipping through the time stream. Now, I imagine that was a pretty hefty dose and probably injected into me, so I can’t speak to people who take smaller amounts recreationally, but yeah, I…