Trump's the Insane Conservative Pleaser.

They seem to be doing this for respectability. But I have no idea if they deserve it or not. People can hold marches in D.C. unrelated to Trump. It's allowed.

Rabin isn't covering this?

Don't praise the machine!

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I think the book is better. The implication in the film is that she loved one son more than the other. In the book, it's that she is a very inhibited person who needs control to function, and death is the ultimate loss of control. The book makes it clear they are all suffering. In the movie, the husband and son seem…

The trouble with pointing to this performance—which is quite good—is that following it, Moore played all her dramatic roles the same way. She seemed to have a very limited range in serious roles. In comedy, she came across as effortlessly, endlessly funny, And innovative—notice that her frequent "Oh, Rob!" on the Mary…

The hardcover publisher was already typesetting the book when the women setting the type were so horrified by what they read, they refused to continue the job. Then selections were leaked, leading to an outcry among feminists, and the publisher refused to release it. That's not an example of a publisher taking a work…

I don't agree. People aren't allowed to use certain words—not just racial or sexuality slurs—and are either prevented from publishing in the vast number of publications if they try to use those words, or severely scolded if they do. The same thing often applies to concepts. Brett Easton Ellis almost couldn't get…

Strum as you are…

Can you or I avoid it here?

It's a phrase that aptly delineates a kind of behavior: attempting to control ideas by controlling speech and sometimes even the right to publication. And I'll add that in the early 90's, the school paper at the University of Texas—a very liberal college—was obsessed with political correctness, and many liberals…

The A.V. Club is now dedicated to writing news stories related to Trump. I liked it better when this was strictly a pop culture site. There's enough politics everywhere else on the web.

Political correctness is actually a concept worth fighting, and surprisingly still in operation.

Are you still responding?

I'd actually thought he has more of a background with Spike Lee than in fact he has. My bad.

False logic doesn't sink in with me, and that's what you're employing. Nope, other people's crimes aren't your business—that's just old puritan nosiness. You'd never try to equate any other crime with this response. And the idea that somehow if Polaski had been caught, it would have altered or prevented other…

Yeah, you're not anger with me. You'll continue to hurl false accusations, like the "NAMBLA meeting" comment, but you're not angry. Then you I guess you're just mentally incompetent, or you lack basic reading skills or something.

I thought I'd read them all—the one where Luke and Leia tumble out of some compartment where they've been messing around, the one where Vader is the one who frees them from the Death Star, one where Luke is "Luke Starkiller." But I don't remember any with actual "star wars" going on. It was a long time ago, though.

I've never known a person in the BDSM scene who would be offended. Then again, for all my extensive friendships in the BDSM community (which includes essentially anyone I ever knew when I lived in Seattle), I know very few people that qualify as "straight." They seem much more open to sexual experimentation than that,…