George Wallace did force his wife Lurleen to run for governor while she was dying of cancer so he could get around term limits and have a puppet governorship. I can only imagine how that affected the children.

I don’t Stan Star Wars. I never bought toys based on it, and have done very little reading in the various spinoff media. So I really didn’t appreciate how much of this kind of character development went into creatures that appear briefly on screen but also appear as toys and get spun off in comics and books until I…

I was really disappointed that the official posters were so much more in the tradition of the original trilogy. I guess you could say this is all part of the film’s difficulty balancing creating something new and trying to cater to nostalgia

If nothing else, it’s good to have a from the time reminder that Bush wasn’t good to remind us that he wasn’t better. 

Worse, it’s release led to the circumstances behind the infamous Citizens United decision.

I keep wondering how awful we’re supposed to think Mrs Wheeler is. During the first season she seemed decent, if a bit of a conformist. In the second season she was a NeoCon who wanted a teenager to fill her romance devoid parts. I really admire Cara Buono as an actress, but what is this character. 

I can see them knowing they wanted this type of character, but he just doesn’t seem real in any sense.

It’s so bizarre how they know what they want the reaction of the character to be, but don’t seem to know how to earn it. 

It’s a real testament to how perverse what has been considered acceptable is that the harassment, which sadly wouldn’t be too far from the type of scene that air on a CBS procedural, isn’t considered notable, but Eliza Dushku using word that can’t be aired on broadcast TV was. Until someone else saw it. 

Yes, there is a real “where does this culture come from?” aspect of this story. Did Weatherly believe his behavior was okay because he had been playing a variation of it for so long, or does that kind of role exist because men like Weatherly want to justify treating women like that?

As someone who’s been fascinated with Ann Nocenti for years I’m thrilled to see The Seeds on this list. And yes, it’s worth it.

I have to say, before I read this article and I first heard of that this was an incident I thought he was comparing anti-vaxers to (non-black) people who use the N word. As someone pro-autism rights and pro vaccine I’m kind of relieved to clarify his target. It still a mess. 

In theory, I don’t mind Freddy Kruger as a pedophile. In practice, having all his victims with repressed memories and PTSD made it hard to build momentum or audience involvement.

Last week I read Lind Hirschman’s Sisters in Law about the careers of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A lot of it was about how the failure of the ERA to pass in the 1970s shaped their legal strategies. However, by the end it emphasized how fragile many of those victories were. I would be thrilled if we…

After hearing Linda Hirshman’s appearance on the second season of Slow Burn and a recent Washington Post column reflecting on the legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor, I’ve started reading her book Sisters In Law. It’s fascinating.

Will this include his two time costar Jane Wyman?

I had never heard of this, but it sound amazing.

I’m in my thirties now, so during his presidency, my childhood, I thought things were more or less working as they always did. It would be be years until I understood that I was born at a moment of great historical shifts.

I never saw Stone’s movie, but I’m very interested in how they compare. Even just from the trailers, this looks much less sympathetic to the subject.

As someone who got into Image Comics recently, it’s pretty amazing how little their nineties output is reflected in their current one.