I don't think we're even to the point where everyone is willing to accept that as rape. That Brock Turner guy dragged an unconscious woman into an alley and got a very grudging "boys will be boys" sentence and plenty of internet defenders.

We're good, according to wikipedia there's a documentary about him coming in 2015.

I met him at a screening about two years ago and I wouldn't say he was loony, exactly. He did stand in front of the theater for 5 hours after the show until every single person in the audience could talk to him one-on-one for as long as they wanted. By the time I got to him, about 4 hours after the event was supposed…

Look, I get few enough opportunities to use my degree in Fellatiative Grammar as it is, just let me have this.

"Sucked" can also imply present tense, like canned yams. The sucking was initiated at some point in the past, but the cock continues to be sucked into the present.

So you're totally fine with pitting the Great Houses against each other in endless bloody conflicts to keep your grip on the throne, but an angel statue is a bridge too far?

Even presidents like Jackson had resumes that at least made voting for them defensible. Jackson stood up to a British soldier in the Revolution, and was a lawyer, congressman, senator, and general. Grant won a war. Harding was a popular politician in his home state. Trump's the first president that gave people…

Yeah I think Grant's presidency is viewed in the context of how bad things went post-1877. All I've read about him indicates that he was a genuinely good guy, and if he'd had proper support he might have made a good president. Unfortunately being a genuinely good guy also meant trusting dangerously incompetent…

How many monkey butlers will there be?

Whether it's a rope or a camel, it means a rich person getting into heaven is a pretty ludicrous proposition.

Funnily enough the first time said gate is mentioned in history is in the 1100s when some rich Christians were trying to justify that passage. It's also now thought that the Greek there probably means rope and not camel, which is a much more logical metaphor and makes the "Eye of the Needle" gate story all the more…

Rowling says he was based on several real teachers she had. There seems to be a British tradition of being scarred for life by cruel, disinterested, and sadistic teachers.

I don't think the intention is that she never loved him. She's presented as the one person in his life who actually cared about him before he pushed her away by becoming a wizard Nazi. They're supposed to have been genuine friends.

I think a lot of people have secularized it to the point where they don't even think about God, they just think about wealth. Multiple Trump voters have told me "Yeah, he seems really incompetent, but he's rich so obviously he knows what he's doing." It has its origins in the Protestant work ethic of course, but even…

He says the poor will always be with you, which is blatantly referencing a Hebrew Bible verse that says "The poor will always be with you so I command you to always open your hands to the poor and needy among you." Modern Christians literally stop reading in mid sentence once they get what they want.

I wouldn't say attitudes toward the poor were good in earlier eras, but the idea that the poor are poor because they don't work hard enough that we've developed in the US is probably the ugliest attitude yet.

People look at me like I'm some sort of crazed street preacher when I try to explain The Sega Channel. Sometimes even I can't believe something so glorious really happened, and 20 years ago at that.

Please don't google the creator of Earthworm Jim if you'd like to keep that impression intact.

Around the time of Frost/Nixon a pretentious interviewer asked him something like "If you care so much about picking your roles, why play Skeletor?" and he went on about how much he loved doing it, clearly not at all what the interviewer was expecting to hear.

Damn, 30 years later and I can still remember that refreshing pine mixed with plastic smell.