Exactly. The same people that want to ban foreigners from coming to America and want to take away assistance to the poor also want to make prison not punishment but torture. We have a crisis of stupidity on our hands.

What the holy fuck?!!!

I wonder if when you are about 20 years older than you are now that you will be as tired as I am of trying to slice and dice music to try to find who lifted what from whom. Everything you say is true and makes sense but who the fuck cares? She has her audience and they will like her no matter what. In the end it just…

I wish they would too. I think this is a case of an 800 lb gorilla sitting on a little person. I know Kesha is not everyone’s cup of tea but she has a right to pursue her career. Yeah Capitalism!

I love that you are the Jezebel resident pop culture historian Kelly. You consistently put up interesting pieces about nearly forgotten people and things. I was just a kid in 1978 and just starting to pay attention to the larger world. It might have been the first year that I did so. I remember hearing her name and…

She is cute but she is a twit.

Just for the record, I happened to think Telenovela was rather funny. Or at least light hearted, goofy fun. My wife in particular loved it. I think that these tv executives should nurse these shows along and let them develop rather than axe them so quickly. But maybe that is just the economics of Hollywood. To keep a…

Psoriasis sufferer here too. My legs have large red patches so much so that wearing shorts is out of the question now except around the house. I dread the long hot summer ahead because of how hot I get wearing pants. This second skin would be a great cover for those times I actually socialize outside in the warmer…

I have a different take on this. I don’t think people were any generally happier back then but maybe they aspired to be happier than we aspire to be. They listened to happier music and watched less heavy movies and TV. Media was escapist and a way to leave your troubles behind. That time was before me but I grew up as…

More examples of the winner takes all world we have crafted for ourselves. Big name celebrities now take VO work from unknowns who used to carve out a nice living doing promos and other voice over work including cartoons. Same with commercials. Seems only major stars need apply. If no one knows who you are, why should…

Maybe you didn’t understand what I was arguing. Porn is not a reflection of real life but a fantasy. So some kids see no sex in their media or a very cleaned up kind of sex and seek to find the “real” sex. But they turn to the easiest source of information they kind find, porn, which they have been warned against or…

Porn was the first thing I thought of as well when I read this. Most female porn stars have small to almost non visible labia. I have grown to like this look. However I grew up looking at porn images in the 70s and 80s where bush covered the area and we just didn’t focus on labia. So I guess as the shaved era arrived,…

Oh the irony. Well put!

I think you said it better than I did.

This makes me even sadder than Prince’s passing.

Watching that clip of him playing with all those heavyweights at the George Harrison tribute and he ruled that guitar solo. He crushed it. And he played with such style and verve. That alone makes him a legend and that aint the half of it!

I love to peel back the curtain and see how actors REALLY get along with each other in contrast to what they always say on press junkets. Most movies are as randomly cast as the employees at any given company. Most of us tolerate the people we work with and we even develop good feelings and friendships with a select…

This Coachella thing has really run its course. I think its time for the cool kids to find something new to be into.... like easy listening music for a change. Nothing would piss off Gen-X and the Boomers than if Gen Z and the young millennials starting listening to the modern equivalent of Percy Faith, Henry Mancini,…

Brilliant. Just Brilliant. Who are the fucks who keep saying SNL is not as good as in the “old” days. I am old for chrissake and I see more clever pieces now than I ever did back in the 70s and 80s. But I will qualify that and say that the filmed, prepared pieces are usually the brilliant ones, not the usual hacky…

I understand what you are saying. I appreciate that producers and patrons put up a lot of money and deserve to make it back and profit. But if some profits can come back to the workers in some cases, such as this one, then I am all for it.