As the article points out, this album is noticeably more country than Golden Hour, which won Country AOTY. I don’t really have a problem with the Grammys getting strict about genre definitions if they find value in that, but they’ve gotta form some kind of guidelines for what those genre definitions are, then. This…

Can you explain how the Senate does “more good” than the House? They pass the same bills. There are some minor differences (the Senate confirms appointments, the House can initiate impeachments, etc.), but none of the differences translate to either house doing “more good” than the other. The reason people prefer to…

Yeah—I like her a lot, but her biggest weakness has always been the purity test standards she criticizes other politicians for. That’s a minor weakness if she can stick to her own high standards, but if she doesn’t, then it becomes a much more glaring flaw.

I mean, the issue here isn’t the policy itself; everybody knows that aid to Israel is a slam dunk to get through Congress. It’s that AOC compromised on her principles on an issue that’s been important to her in the past, and in a way that she’s criticized other politicians for doing ... for no visible reason other…

The US gives foreign aid to basically every country in the world.  Its a basic component of our diplomacy.

Also, if the Supreme Court overturns Roe, a newly emboldened Republican Party is going to make a new goal out of federally banning abortion. It’s not like they’re going to just stop once Roe is overturned and say, “Cool, that’s enough, we’re good here.”

New York temporarily suspended the statute of limitations. This case is not in New York, so the normal statute of limitations applies. (Also, New York’s temporary suspension of the SOL expired in August, so unless it’s renewed, their normal statutes are back in place again now as well.)

Yeah, she wrote about the statutory relationship in “Hands Clean,” and it seems like that guy was probably a producer or somebody else in the music industry. “You’re essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me/You’re a kind of protégé, and one day you’ll say you learned all you know from me.”

I don’t really understand where the “it isn’t our business” takes are coming from. This is a classic celebrity scandal (drugs! cheating with strippers! a secret baby! a scheming mistress!), and it’s fascinating because it cuts directly across the image Mulaney has sold himself on for years. (It’s almost literary how…

The crack about Stevie being lonely is kind of funny given that his wife just left him.

Lindsey literally tried to strangle Stevie at one point. (And was accused of physically and emotionally abusing her and other partners on other occasions.) The only reason it’s weird to pick a side in a feud like this is because there literally is only one side a normal person could pick.

Her public statement in response to his divorce announcement was, “I am heartbroken that John has decided to end our marriage,” so I kind of doubt it. But anything’s possible!

There’s some major fuzziness going on with the timeline Mulaney presented--saying he had split from his wife last fall, when he was still going on talk shows acting like they were married at least as late as December, for example. I’m guessing we got the sanitized version, and his relationship with Munn started…

Yeah, I think people are reading the headlines but not necessarily the fine print. The fine print makes it clear that ScarJo did get paid some cut of the Disney+ money, just not as much as she wanted. (My understanding is that her complaint was not about not getting streaming proceeds, it’s that her contract was…

I suspect this one will get struck down once it is actually challenged. There are too many structural issues with it, and precedents that even the conservative part of the Court doesn’t want to set.

There’s no indication Sinema would be a problem on this particular vote. Casey would be, though.

And even if Angelina is lying and she hadn’t told Pitt that Weinstein had assaulted her, Pitt—by his own admission—knew that he’d gone after Gwyneth, and still continued to work with him.

He wasn’t the best of the hosts by any means, but the majority of his issues just seemed due to nerves. I don’t think there’s anything that wouldn’t be solvable within a few months on the job, if not less.

This song was released shortly after Hole had released Celebrity Skin and switched their image and sound up for a glossier, more radio-friendly vibe. It didn’t last long, but that’s what the lyrics refer to—they had basically done a complete 180 and caught a lot of criticism from the punk/grunge world they’d come up…

The WSJ article only mentions the wheelchair tweet. I don’t think Bean Dad was ever actually a part of the calculus. (It happened a few months later, and my impression is that Sony had already moved on from him as a candidate by then.)