Well, if Trump with Bannon after their loss starts a network that makes Fox look moderate, god help us.

Not having read him much, I'm agnostic on Greenwald.

Agree wholeheartedly. But everybody likes a firm plot, which is another way of saying a recognizable in form and content story, and I can't blame the masses for wanting one when they've been conditioned by Hollywood to expect that in all their entertainment. If we had a more popular and successful foreign film culture…

I've been thinking its the best work of fiction I've read in years. Really love it's modernist bent; reminded me a bit of Pynchon's chaos. Just started on Joseph Anton, the memoir, and it's fascinating getting to know his initial writer's life (he became a writer and successful by interrogating who he was and…

He does like to write! Expect his work to be dense with character, allusions, plot, literary style, different voices, a lot of incident. I've always seen him as an "everything including the kitchen sink" writer, but I love that approach. He's deliberately echoing the chaos and carnival of where he grew up (his memoir,…

This is another of the countless articles written over the last couple of days that calls Lochte an idiot. Having seen some YouTube clips, I can understand that. But are we disingenuously doth protesting too much? After all, we watch the Olympics, sports, reality shows, entertainment—so that they are profitable in the…

I was a big fan of Murphy Brown, but didn't watch what preceded it.

Flipping channels again, I've seen many Democrat politicians appear on Fox News. I don't know but I heard that they a few years ago decided to invite more guest that didn't tow the propaganda line on. Hope so. Now with Ailes out, I hope it really increases. Sabato as a political science professor, well-respected…

Adam Arkin, the talented TV director of The Americans, Justified, and Fargo among many others, also acts? Huh.

And Major Dad! I never saw but I know it exists, unlike most of you kids.

Honestly, I used to see him on Fox News when I was flipping channels and thought since he was on there, he was partisan. Didn't actually stop to watch what he was saying.

Yeah, she's sick alright: sick with laughter at how easy she's gonna win. On Maddow I saw the latest forecast done by Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, apparently a big deal among the political science class for his predictions, and he made his map that said Clinton would have about 350 electoral votes if…

I'll write this again in this month's What Are You Reading, but since I already brought it up here, an update: finished The Satanic Verses. Novel of the year. May be Rushdie's best—and that's saying something. A gloriously diverse, polyphonic, comical, tragical, modernist epic. Exhilarating, deeply moving, very funny,…

I didn't know about your family, man. All the best. I'm amazed you can write at the level you do, with the moral outrage and concern for others you have, amid all that you're going through. Of course, as you alluded, your personal life feeds into your calls for political public good.

You bring up good points. I read it but only the political/liberal stories; not so much the "exposes" or the celebrity trash; that side I didn't know much. When Denton kept saying Gawker's role as truth teller was important, I in this site said they seemed to be not self-aware. It can be two things: Gawker reported a…

It can be two things! Two wrongs don't make a right! I'm loving it!

It took me much to long to realize that her name isn't Barbara. In my defense, I've never seen "Barbra" before.

Curious that the real reason for Gawker's shutdown—spiteful billionaire successfully goes after media company—wasn't mentioned. No matter what you think of the site—and Glen Greenwald tweeted that those celebrating didn't actually read it—the fact that the wealthy can now shut down media is pretty troubling.

Disappointed dogs catching balls in pools from Knight of Cups were not included. Those scenes I kinda believe were key for the main theme of the movie.

Hey, Larry Wilmore has a final Nightly Show topic.