The US is peculiar in that we invest a President in both the powers of President(duh) and also Head of State. Of course a huge part of being President is a ceremonial job, it’s very odd that you think it isn’t. Who’s pardoning those turkeys at Thanksgiving and receiving ambassadors and all that? Please.  Yes, being…

Which is why Joe Biden was exceptional and went above and beyond in the role. He was in Iraq constantly so Obama didn’t have to be. Did he have to do that? According to you, no. But he did. Obama and Biden had a partnership, Obama did not waste Biden in a “ceremonial” role, Biden had extensive expertise . Biden…

He also has 8 years as an extremely effective VP for President Obama, doing things that people don’t seem to have a clue about. Whatever one thinks of our presence in Iraq, he was the one keeping tabs and order among the troops pretty tirelessly. Biden was ferociously competent as Obama’s VP, bringing huge experience…

“I’m snakebit,” he said. “Every time someone’s driving somebody I lose.”- Spike last night, a pretty good quip. 

Dude. What the fuck? I am seriously taken aback at your hatred of me. “you whiny, worthless, fuckwad.”   I apologize that I incited such hatred in you.  Over what?  Christ, you’re nasty. 

Quite fucking unnecessary. I like Olivia Colman, I was just commiserating with Glenn Close’s loss after 35 years without an Oscar. Fuck you too.

I saw Billy Porter wearing that amazing Christian Siriano outfit on Jez, thought it fantastic, then turned on the red carpet Ch. 7, and I didn’t know him either, but he was the most brayingly dumb queen and airhead, I just couldn’t. Like, he was interviewing Civil Rights hero Congressman John Lewis and had nothing to…

Vice sounds like some movie dreamed up in a lab by scientists designing a film I would actively loathe to ever see.  I don’t care whatever dickhead Christian Bale gets up to in elaborate prosthetics,  I don’t need to see the lighthearted ha-ha treatment of fucking war criminal Dick Cheney.  Even the clips they showed…

By thwarting and fucking over Glenn Close for the 35th year of amazing work, yeah. Not former sit-comic actress Olivia Colman’s fault, born in 1974. Glenn Close was born in 1947, and I imagine she feels set off on an ice floe at this point tonight, fated to NEVER get an Oscar. That sort of sucks. I wouldn’t blame…

Ebony and Ivory.  Living together in harmony.  

At least he didn’t take his dick out onstage.  Maybe at the Vanity Fair party later. 

The whole show seemed designed to piss off conservative white Trump voters. Babs Streisand introducing “BlackKKlansman” was just the icing on the cake.  

I would have died if Best Adapted Screenplay went to Bradley Cooper and associates, because it was funny how they had to say “based on the idea based on the idea based on the idea going back to 1937".

Glenn Close was fucking robbed. No offense to Olivia Colman, but she was known for years in the UK as an okay comic actress, sort of sit-com. She’s not really the focus of The Favourite. She’s a semicomic figure the younger actresses spin around.

And, as expected, “Shallow” won best Song, so of course Lady Gaga does her hammy fake weepy OMG, I can’t believe it! I’m so emotional.. bit. Fine.

Kinja absolutely sucks for any sort of liveblogging for we peasant commenters. On Disqus it was a mighty river of fun on Oscar night, not that long ago. Oh well, you can’t even reply to a reply on Kinja, the basics aren’t even functional.

For sure! And by the way thanks Mike for this fascinating Wormhole, and all the ones that you do, I really love them.

Speaking of which, holy shit.. the autopsy report of an LA news anchor who died is just nuts to read before you get to the gimp mask.

Of course, the brits didn’t give a s*&t what the French ruler decreed in terms of law enforcement but, when it came to fashion, they copied everything French.

Oh wow.  That looks instantly legendary.  Love it.