In New York City, negligent drivers aren’t charged at all, so long as they “stay on the scene.” This is really bad negligence. So I say reduce it to 25 years. This is not a New York City situation.

Didn’t the victims approach the Hollywood Reporter before the show premiered? I think HR sat on the story.

Why make a statement at all? Sometimes the best statement is no statement. Also, Noth is a rapist. Just like Kobe.

I think it is the opposite. The show and his people cut a deal to have this news come out after his character was killed off and after Peloton had 36 hours to recover from the fallout.

He’s a rapist. He needs to be locked up.

I’m a huge fan of the original final verse. We need it back. Not so we can be more depressed. But because every year since 2015 has been terrible, and it is never getting better. Let’s grow up, face the facts, and have this song reflect some damn reality. Sinatra failed. His lyric change is a band-aid on a downer of a…

I know most people know Thewlis from the Harry Potter movies. But if you want to know why we’re seeing more of him lately (Barkskins, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Landscapers), were slowly approaching the 30th anniversary of his Cannes 1993 best actor performance as Johnny in Mike Leigh’s Naked. Probably Leigh’s…

The COVID related deaths must continue until morale improves. Please die, Americans. And make it quick. You're wasting our fucking time with your stunts, insurrection and what not.

I disagree. I think he will be edited out of SATC and AJLT. "Who's Mister Big?"

Man, this new AJLT series lucked out. He's a rapist. They couldn't show any new episodes starring him now. In fact, they might have to take down the first episode.

Because Clapton set his musical legacy on fire. His obituary will absolutely mention his anti-vaccine stand. And it is amazing, frankly, that his career survived his rant in 1976. It survived because Slowhand (1977) was universally acclaimed and kept Clapton relevant through the late 80s.

Because Clapton set his musical legacy on fire. His obituary will absolutely mention his anti-vaccine stand. And it is amazing, frankly, that his career survived his rant in 1976. It survived because Slowhand (1977) was universally acclaimed and kept Clapton relevant through the late 80s.

I have a slightly different take. They know that chances are, they will be caught, so if and when they have to face consequences, they swiftly accept it. It’s a pattern I first saw, in all things, French cinema (for example, see Damage, even though it’s an adaptation of an Irish novel). In so many French films, the…

Must read in Jacobin today about how Biden and the Democrats have brought themselves down since this past March, when it looked like we were going to beat this pandemic and maybe prevent the GOP from forcing their autocratic rule on us in 2023. Biden’s approval slide doesn’t mean that 20 million voters are going to…

I agree. I think the odds are that it will be a mainly quiet, mainly bloodless coup. Most Americans will shrug, say something like "DC is broken anyway," and go back to watching whatever they are streaming.

We can crack jokes about it, but the fact remans: the GOP and their violent gangs are stealing the white house in January 2025. What happened in January 2021 was a feeble dry run. Everyone involved that coup attempt should be in prison, but we have only punished a fraction of the foot soldiers. Next time, they are…

Cryptocurrency is only used by cyber criminals. Fuck this guy and fuck Eric Adams. Fuck all of this.

I’m still not sold on Shauna being a survivor of some of the worst trauma of all the girls. If that baby is born alive, it’s food. And we’re supposed to believe that out of the 4 female survivors, she never sold her story. It’s good that the world doesn’t know about the pregnancy. That would have made her the prime…

Nebraska is also the only state in its region not to have a law banning abortion effective next July. So I wonder, is Nebraska OK? Blink if you are quietly turning blue on us, Nebraska.

How do we know a Fox employee didn’t pay or persuade Mr. Tamanaha to set their fake tree on fire?