This is a Margaret Atwood short story!

"In answer to your concern about Betsy DeVos—Our American government has three branches: the executive, legislative and judicial. The head of the executive is the president of the of the United States. The legislative body is the Congress, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the judicial, the…

Dammit, Alabama.

Wow. I'm still amazed at how precipitously America broke bad with its choice of president. We didn't just elect a outside-the-box candidate with a few new flaws, we abandoned all our principles and beliefs of what a president should be (or, heck a normal functioning human being who has a job, any job, and doesn't…

Sorry, most of the fare was forgettable. Which one was that?

Right, yes, that was great. I always love to combine "high" culture with "low" or "middle" and I'd like to think Einstein if he were alive today would be a fan of hers. (I have to watch the wonderful IQ again.)

I've been wondering recently, if we took 4 out of American history, how different/better this country could be right now. You'd still have Republicans and conservatives, but perhaps not as ideologically and practically powerful.

Super Bowl LI Ad corner—I found most of the commercials to be tepid and lazy, but there were a few that I liked, in the second half. I hadn't seen the Kia-Melissa McCarthy thing, and, after her great Saturday night, she appeared again in a somewhat less funny but still fine parody of liberal eco-warriors. I loved the…

Now even our TV shows are endorsing privatization? Hope the show is eventually about how running the police as a business is a very bad idea.

For me, the issue was actual government employees during the Bush administration, from the military on up to the leadership thought the portrayal of Muslims on this show to be somewhat accurate, as well as the ubiquitous torture to be effective. Now, the America of the show is clearly fantasy to any rational viewer…

That rolling pipe was the best thing in that hour. The rolling pipe for new lead.

Highly formulaic. Since the show won't change its cliches, stereotypes, writing, anything else, I guess it was up to our real-life country to surprise people with the Muslim ban. I hope this series, rote and boring as it appears to be, won't just contribute to more Islamophobia when that's already official national…

Don't ask me; I'm not a Christian. But I'll guess out of my ass that American evangelical Christianity isn't so subtle and nuanced a faith, so the art suffers.

God no. Christmas at least is a time of thanks and gratitude, with some semblance of you have to be looking out for your neighbor. The ever-accelerating stupid capitalistic bombast of the Super Bowl makes it Idiocracy's holiday. (You can tell I don't normally watch football.)

For the record, they were shitty commercials.

No, they won by actually being the better team. Trump just conned a bunch of people with a big assist by the Founders.

To top that, next year's halftime show should commence with an actual bombing of any Middle Eastern country just because it's the Super Bowl and we like blowing shit up.

Like everything else with this game, a tad excessive. Jesus, America, calm the fuck down; pretty soon every other holiday will be eaten by Super Bowl Day.

Likely the best picture Oscar winner in the first year of the Trump Administration. Some may say it's too escapist and lighthearted a choice that doesn't reflect the awful gravity of our time, but I would counter with: finding joy in joyless times is a necessary existential and political act. And La La Land, to me at…

He sings "City of Stars" to Moscow?