A permanent healthy diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables, as the former FLOTUS (!)(WAH!) extolled during her entire tenure is much more healthy than one afternoon's walk.

Or: Republicans are the only party in the United States (and world presumably) that extols hard work, family values, fiscal prudence and responsibility, fairness by not giving handouts of your money to undeserving people, religious compassion and mercy. They've been quite successful with this alt-fact, and finding…

It's rich but not the kind CNBC likes for a show on CNBC to be entitled American Greed and have it be about "the dark side of the American dream."

I'm in the minority in not loving Hell or High Water, because while it was beautifully directed and nicely acted, the script was very slight, cliched, predictable, feeling like the movie had been written in an afternoon. I did not notice great dialogue. The characters were simplistic and schematic, with no humanity to…

This country really hasn't had any experience with social democracy as full, continuous policy. We've gotten there in fits and starts—Social Security and decades later Medicare, for example—so many Americans don't know the benefits if the government did it comprehensively, and well. And our government is run badly and…

Walter on Kellyanne: "Those rich fucks! This whole fucking thing… I did not watch my buddies
die face down in the muck so that this fucking strumpet—" Say what you want about about the tenets of the media, Kellyanne—at least it's an ethos, unlike the nihilism you possess.

Thank you. I think Gangs isn't a good picture. Of the losers, I loved Two Towers but it's last in my preference after The Pianist and The Hours, I think.

How is totally being against government—to the point of ignoring factual data that that ideology applied doesn't work—and obstructing every policy Obama proposed, including Republican ones (trying to repeal the ACA dozens of times for example when it was the national version of RomneyCare, proposed originally by a…

With Kellyanne today incredibly beginning the starkest media step of the Trump administration towards fascism, on Day 2!, I recommend this site just straight up covers this presidency instead of finding (trivial, tenuous) pop culture angles. All of us, especially non-political people who rather read entertainment over…

Cut the AV Club up with a razor blade and snort it, baby.

At some point they might have to switch Trump actors by hiring a regular who can be there every week, since no doubt there will be multiple Pres. Trump absurdities every week. Though I believe strongly that limitations inspire greater creativity, so maybe they shouldn't do that.

I've only just seen the movie and I loved it. I don't remember what else it was competing against for the Oscars, but I wasn't unhappy it won Best Picture. Maybe the paucity of musicals boosted it more, but I'm all for bringing that genre significantly back, especially during hard times (see my PCW thought on Singin'…

Well, Churchill was an English Tory, which is to the left of the current American conservatism, as seem to be most first world countries' non-extremist political parties. I even doubt he would like the direction of his party today.

Night's alright for fighting?! Yippee! *hits Rocky over the head with a folding chair*

Ah, Sunday morning discussing Beck Bennett's body. Life is good. For now.

I remember his pre-SNL AT&T commercials—hey, remember the one with the annoying little kids—and he looked fatter. I'm sure there are a lot of people who find his Putin sexy.

I would yell "That's the effing point!" about the "To Sir With Love" valediction. I found it sweet. *shrugs* This very good episode could have been written by the AV Club: a fantastic satire of La La Land zealotry (for the record, I loved the movie, Moonlight, and Westworld); the fantastic Chicago parody fixing a…

You will enjoy tonight's SNL sketch about La La Land.

I haven't started His Popiness, yet. But I like Victoria. Discovered Jenna Coleman. She's pretty endearing. Not only beautiful, she's also cute. Very good chemistry with Rufus Sewell. Since Victoria reigned for a long time, I wonder how many seasons the show plans on doing, and it would be a bad idea to put Ms.…

That sounds about right. I've read interviews with artists living under the Soviet Union where art became so much more important to them, to make it and screen it, and to the audience if they could have experienced it. We in this country take art for granted. But if it's taken away, like with everything else, we'll…