Albert - I have gotten a lot of joy out of your work on this site. Your HitchBot takedown is to this day one of my favorite things I have ever read on the Internet, and your writing is a big part of how I got to be a passionate NBA fan. This piece is all true, and good, and like all of your work, well-written.

I loved that he hates this series Soooo much. Thinks the author is a nut, the characters are bad, the story is flimsy, and really bad. 

I just discovered “Cork Taint” is the name of my new favor band I just made up. They play punk covers of big band music.

I just discovered “Cork Taint” is the name of my new favor band I just made up. They play punk covers of big band…

Yes, they should give me articles I enjoy, pay writers, pay to upkeep a website, and show me new and interesting products that sometimes include exclusive deals to this site. But they should NEVER EVER try to make money for all of these free services they provide me. 

Yes, they should give me articles I enjoy, pay writers, pay to upkeep a website, and show me new and interesting…

Paying shipping to own the libs

Paying shipping to own the libs

She’s earned six Grammy noms, co-starred in Best Picture winner Moonlight, as well as a starring role in Hidden Figures, and she’s a CoverGirl spokeswoman. Even if you’ve heard none of her music, seen none of her movies and never use makeup - if you’re on the Internet, you should have a passing recognition of her.…

Just because you don’t know who she is doesn’t mean she isn’t a household name. She’s a famous singer, has starred in a film that won an Academy Award for best picture, and has been on major magazine covers.

Meanwhile, the haters are literally burning their own houses down.

There certainly should.

Also, like, maybe he doesn’t want to have to take every shitty acting gig that comes his way. Maybe working at Trader Joe’s allows him to be selective about where he does his “art,” and to choose projects he’s passionate about rather than acting to make a buck (which, for the record, is also perfectly fine. Just look…

But what if she was wearing a short skirt?

The reason your Gen X friends seem more liberal might be because you’re only hanging out with your more liberal friends. or it might be that they’ve yet to hit that curve which comes around age 50 which suddenly turns you insane.

While the intent of the article is worthy, the targets seem to be off base. Almost every critique you make of the film would make sense if each point you mention in the film were played straight, but every single point (A Girl Worth Fighting For, Mushu, the Emperor’s aside to Shang) is played to comedically undermine…

+1 for everything you said. I’d add also that Mulan doesn’t really start as exceptional, unless you count her tenacity as being outside the norm. But there is literally an entire song and montage dedicated to the progression of her training. She tries and fails multiple times only to get better each time until she…

The gender politics in Mulan are indeed far from perfect, but you’ve chosen to focus on some really strange things to make your argument.

OMG that is horrific!

I’ve had this happen. I’ve had them split in half and I’ve had them just tear. Thankfully when they’ve split in half, I’ve been able to dig out (!) the other half fairly easily, but it IS painful.

Oh god... I don’t think I would want them anywhere near me after that.

The problem is that it’s a good strategy, perhaps, in Queens. But, she is extrapolating from her primary victory that this would also be a good strategy in places like Montana, Kansas, and Iowa, in West Virginia. Which, based upon the types of Democrats who beat Republicans in these districts, is demonstrably false.

It’s ironic that for years people have told more liberal Democrats “Don’t be too progressive, you’ll scare off voters. Compromise with big business. Avoid words like ‘socialist’.” We’ve seen what that results in: it doesn’t work against the GOP machine, especially lately.