He blamed it on his bad childhood.

http://stutteringjohnpodcast.libsyn.com/the-stuttering-john-podcast-4

The corruption is really never ending.

According to Vanity Fair, SC Justice Kennedy’s son works for Deutsche Bank, which is being investigated by Mueller, works for their international real estate wing and has ties to the Trump Organization.

Ha! I guess I need to listen to it now. Random use of BABABOOEY is never not funny to me.

“John Melendez, host of the podcast The Stuttering John, managed to speak to Donald Trump on the phone after posing as New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. According to Melendez, he called the White House switchboard and made it through two call screens before Jared Kushner called him from Air Force One. Kushner…

Of course it was Kushner’s fault.

According to Melendez, he called the White House switchboard and made it through two call screens before Jared Kushner called him from Air Force One. Kushner transferred the podcast host to the president. Trump spoke to Melendez about a range of topics, including immigration, the North Dakota Senate race, and his…

Another great opportunity to do absolutely nothing about guns in our country, that way when a punk band makes a joke about mass shootings, we can all get furious at THEM for making light of tragedy instead of doing anything to prevent it ourselves.

Hoodies are a suspicious item of clothing; apparently, this, not so much.

Wow, gun violence AND an assault on a free press all in one? It’s like the conservative dream. 

I have this question every time I hear about men acting awful around women. How do they justify that with their own internal code/logic? No one ever says this behaviour is ok, so I’m assuming it’s an accumulation of “getting away” with these things and that it builds over time...I don’t know, it just seems so against…

God, reading that article was depressing. I am always astonished to learn how few men know how to behave and control themselves around the opposite sex. I don’t even know where I learned how. My father came from a third world country and had very traditional values about gender roles, although he never expressed…

The Variety piece is actually an edited version of something Smolcic published on Medium at the same time:

I wonder if Brenda Chapman’s concern about the direction of Brave was “Hey, I thought this was about like a cool Scottish princess but it’s like, about witches and bears.  So freakin’ many bears.”  Because that was my concern about it.

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Yeah, many a showrunner would do well to remember this:

I might be in the minority, but the only demand that I make of these type shows is that in the end they make narrative or thematic sense. Don’t BS me like the LOST creators did, oh so long ago, with mystery boxes to nowhere.