We need to investigate for a human footstool 

... and a bit of mutton dressed as lamb, too.

It’s very important that when we protest the actions of the wealthy elite ruling class that we do it in a way in which they always feel safe, secure, and comfy. Can’t have them shaken up or slightly inconvenienced in any way, that would be gauche.

“Now, if you’re saying that a low quality performance draws more attention to the age disparity, that’s one thing, but that’s not what I’ve been reading from you guys since the trailer premiered (apologies if I’ve inferred something that isn’t there).”

If anyone is interested in a movie with a similar premise (fake suicide note suddenly brings notoriety and possibly happiness to the protagonist) that realizes that premise should actually be a pitch black comedy, check out World’s Greatest Dad.

I remember thinking there would be WW3, a draft, a dirty bomb going off in a major city, etc. It somewhat affected where people traveled and went to college, at least for a couple of years. But now that fear’s been replaced with fear of a mass shooting! By one of “us”! 

The Boomers who largely ran the country 100 percent were projecting their Vietnam-era resentment into this war.

This is very good. I’d also like to recommend the This American Life episode about the FBI agent going undercover at a mosque. Good fucking grief.

I had a class in a blue state with an army intelligence officer. Iraq was definitely brought up as a possibility. I want to say he correctly mentioned bin Laden “the guy who bombed the Kenya embassy” but Iraq was 100 percent what most people figured. 

Remember the color alert system? It now seems like a quaint joke early American Dad episodes made and not an actual thing

I felt so incredibly alone in the aftermath of 9/11. It seemed like everybody I knew: friends, family, colleagues, had gone completely insane. “They attacked us,” they’d say, and demand vengeance in the form of terrorizing innocent Middle Eastern citizens. It turns out that we immediately attacked countries that…

American jingoism is a long tradition that predates the boogeymen we pretend we’re different from.

Exactly what I was coming here to say, couldn’t even get the Greek guy with the great voice for animation to voice the guy with the beard? Disappointing.

It’s so weird and unpleasant how many teenagers on Twitter feel personally betrayed because this person going through a lot of personal strife divorced his wife.

Yeah. Fieri belittling people who drew unemployment benefits rather than work for wages far less than unemployment is kind of concerning. It makes his philanthropy look like it’s less he’s trying to address systemic issues and more a performance for his brand.

“the law of the law of genre... is precisely a principle of contamination, a law of impurity, a parasitical economy... a sort of participation without belonging—a taking part in without being part of”

Mambo Number 5 for a serial killer movie

Pretty sure that “Mad World” cover was recorded for Donnie Darko, and Gears of War just borrowed it a few years later (the Xbox 360 didn’t launch until 2004 or 2005, and it’s unlikely they were releasing trailers for games on a system that didn’t exist). 

Probably telling the truth. She could be proud of her work at Disney and not psyched about signing into an expansive contract when she was really young that limited her film and music options for a while as an adult.