—Crawford being more emotionally vulnerable here gets at what I want Lange to play again: instead of being typecast as the larger-than-life angry, abused woman in a Ryan Murphy production, how about someone like her sweet, decent, innocent character from Tootsie? She may have recently played this but I don't know.
—Mama…

I actually think it unhealthy to just have one clearly moral political party every reasonable person is part of, because the other party is clearly irrational and immoral. Two rational, functioning parties and more are necessary for societies to get better solutions. As is, some conservative rhetoric would be fine if…

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I often feel like the patient in the TZ's Eye of the Beholder ep when it comes to politics in this country. Am I crazy to think that clearly harmful and immoral policies shouldn't be supported? Maybe we as a culture should stop accepting the parties and their voters, specifically the Republicans, as is, and start…

That, in fact, is an overly sincere response, Overly Sincere Commenter. Thanks.

I actually started watching a few episodes of the Ranch, a bit reluctantly since it wasn't good but TVDW raved about it, and Sam Elliot—before the charges against Danny Masterson became public. Now, I'll have to find another show about Middle America, even though the show takes place in Colorado.

Oh, that one. No, that was about a man without a face dispensing life lessons.

Catching bits in syndication here and there, it's not as bad as I was led to believe. I actually thought his character was supposed to be a bit more complex than a Republican stereotype, and that he's often wrong about what he thinks liberals are, while an extreme liberal like his son-in-law is wrong about who he…

Fun fact: Billy Collins, the poet, sounds like Tim Allen.

It's hard not to. And even if liberals treat conservatives smugly, so what? That is no reason to support an ideology that does harm to others. I don't know how many people view politics and govt as a market choice, reflecting their identity like the products they buy, or as codified altruism that is supposed to help…

To a surprising degree, modern-day Republicanism is based on the perceived attitudes of liberals towards them. It's like conservatives ignore the big book of evidence that the policy ideas that they're supporting empirically harm people, because feeling patronized, condescended to personally—even when that's not…

Obvious advice be obvious: find something that let's you be the private you. If you don't know what that is, make a list of your interests, what you enjoy spending time doing, then rank them. Also ask friends and loved ones what they think you like doing, based on what you always do or talk about with them. Good luck!…

That's a sooner release date than I thought. After years of development, with directors coming and going—suddenly it's here! Okay! *crosses fingers*

I had to switch cable plans this week, and so I didn't have internet and TV for a couple of days. I felt a qualitative change, like I had found the key to a door. It was serene. Of course, once the juice was back on, I'm back here, and there, and everywhere TV and internet are. But I think moderation will be good and…

She doesn't have to admit it for it to be a mistake. Not admitting it is another mistake. I'm criticizing people judging her, or anyone, for single errors instead of the entirety of their work/lives.

So Planet Earth II keeps finding amazing animals and shots. This week was on the world's grasslands, where a diverse abundance of animals and insects live, feeding off the grass, some of which can be elephant high. A very cute episode, with little birds flying in front of said pachyderms, trying to get at the insects…

That leads to the question of how linked are ethnically homogeneous societies and misogyny. I don't have the data, but the United States is pretty racially integrated—how is its wellness and equality index for women?

Old Englande: Here's your chance to (re)invade New England.

Yesterday's NYT: "Trump Budget Cuts Put Struggling Americans On Edge." It's hard not feeling the schadenfreude with stories like this, but if you read it, some of his voters are beginning to change their minds. A little. So that's progress! Much more work to do, though of course the most powerful mind-changer remains…

OK, she made a mistake. If the entire sum of her work has more good than bad, she can make mistakes. I feel liberals are judged more harshly than conservatives when it's the latter's media that is riven with propaganda. This was an error, but it kind of reinforces my feeling that we assume Americans are by default…