Something that’s been clear to me for a while is that Disney, perhaps learning from Marvel, is treating the old EU like Marvel’s movies treat the comics: as a source of stories that they can strip-mine anything useful out of, but not have to feel in any way constrained by.

Hi, I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such elite career orientation videos as “So You Want To Run General Electric?” and “Orientation The Right Way: Welcome To the St. Louis Cardinals.”

Today we’ll learn together about the exciting world of being the President of the United States. First, welcome to the Oval…

Being forced to watch the White House orientation video must have been tough for him, since it doesn’t mention him. The part about sexual harassment in the workplace must have been uncomfortable.

Rest assured, the writers will find a way to ensure that, in a universe of trillions of intelligent beings, every character appearing onscreen is somehow related to the same 16-or-so protagonists.

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…

Sadly, the 0.1% of radical extremists (read: not conservatives) are driving the Republican bus now. The conservatives are welcome to hang out with us here over on the left though so you and us can have logical grown-up conversations and actually do something to improve our country.

Considering Trump was all about saying how he doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, won’t do drugs, etc. it’s strange that his closest adviser is clearly an alcoholic.

Today, this tomato faced cockstain invoked the name of the US Navy SEAL who died in the yemen raid, and used him to shame anyone asking about the raid. He straight up said anyone questioning the effectiveness or execution of the raid was insulting the dead serviceman.

Trump is reported to care excessively about the appearance of his staffers.

Sounds like classic misdirection.

OK I can exclusively reveal, here on io9, that I am not in Infinity War. I’ve had to keep this under wraps for a while, but I’ve been allowed to let you all know.

Thank you for providing an example of why Boston has made the list.

“Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room.”

David Frum. The extremely famous former speechwriter who is now a senior editor at The Atlantic by dint of having been George W. Bush’s speechwriter. You absolute horse’s ass. 

He says revenue comes from podcasts. Podcasts generally make $15 to $20 per 1000 downloads (which is a very good number compared to other forms of media) He says “The Ringer NBA show is like 140,000, 150,000 listeners per show. Channel 33’s like 125,000 per show. Ringer NFL is like almost 100,000.” Let’s say they…

I think where white people get mixed up is what they’re supposed to FEEL about their privilege. They (we) too often assume it’s guilt or remorse that’s required. When, in reality, it’s kindness and civility and fairness. And most importantly sometimes, it requires outrage for a plight that’s not your own.

We could call it the Spectacular Coincidence Ban if that makes you more comfortable.

Yeah, being in Manhattan, it’s extremely hard to find a world-class neurologist.

I’d still kinda like to see Hugh Jackman in Deadpool...but not Wolverine. I think a movie where Deadpool grabs the actual Hugh Jackman and drags him into the action, probably getting him killed in the process, would be awesome.

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