Moonlight should win, but I'll be more than happy if La La Land wins, or Arrival, or Manchester By the Sea, in that order, and I haven't seen the others. Except Hell or High Water, which I'm leaving the country if it wins.

I don't think a move leftward will come from the top; it's already happening naturally at the bottom in response to Trump.

Some whiplash reading this thread right after watching the breathtakingly beautiful and majestic Planet Earth II—which is good for the soul in times like these! Human beings have a lot of nonsense going on.

Well I guess being in a movie where as a teenager she pretended that her father was her lover couldn't make her happen, nothing will.

I don't see how between Heigl and Dawson, the latter isn't automatically the villain. She's got loads of charisma and I'd like to see her chew the scenery. She's basically Walton Goggins as an actress.

They had Rosario Dawson and Heigl is the villain? There right there is why it's not going to be a good movie.

To be fair: this is like Rolling Stones fans knowing every single line of the hits at concerts but not recognizing nor caring about the new stuff. The old SU hammer and sickle flag = Jumpin' Jack Flash. The Russian Federation flag = I don't know—play Jumpin' Jack Flash!

—I couldn't help but think this episode was sort of a response to 24 and "torture works." Though Will treated Frankie humanely and allowed her to kill herself, she would have let Burke do that after not providing any information.
—Since we seem to be heading again to human rights abuses in another administration, the…

Free Spaces aren't five regular-length paragraphs!

Some wealthy people hate paying taxes over anything else?

In horrifying Trump news that isn't about policy, Politico has an "Oh Boy!" piece about how Trump's campaign staff last year tried to prevent him from angry tweeting: knowing that he would be set off by bad press, they planted favorable stories in conservative media he likes.

2020: I'd like to hear what candidate Larry, the Giant Squid has to say.

Maybe I'm just inured to Maher now, but that beginning (I could only watch a few minutes) showed off the person critics and haters see as a very smug asshole. I don't dispute that he is. It's not even "He's liberals' asshole." He and the show, Real Time, do have better qualities but I more than understand why many…

"Pie—good. Communism—bad." (I haven't had dinner yet.)

"I talk good. Give me sandwich." should cover most of your social interactions.

To be fair, you really don't need vocabulary of an eight-grade level. How often are you going to compliment someone on their estival dress? Common words fine.

The biggest thing I'm disappointed in him for, as revealed in the NYT interview, is that he booked the troll before getting to know his work. That screams, obviously, "Let's do it for the ratings!" Maybe one of his EPs knew his work and convinced Maher to book him, in the hope that he would take him down, but, come…

Ewan McGregor turned so gradually into the Travelocity guy that I didn't even notice.

There's a reasonable happy medium between berating him for eight minutes straight and defending him based on the one thing you both agree on, which is what Bill did. He did say he disagreed with him heavily on some points, but if he hadn't said that, you would think they both were alike—because Maher spent that…

Which Maher and the New Atheists don't seem to get, astoundingly.