I mean, Kanye West is objectively hilarious, but that doesn't mean there aren't issues at play worth thinking about.

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Sorry, didn't mean to imply you did! I was just blathering my thoughts out into the empty aether of the Internet.

In an entirely objective sense? Is there anyone even approaching the level of commercial and critical success pared with artistic influence as him right now?

You're right, Kimmel is not literally a Klansman and so his response, and the broader response of the overwhelmingly white media commentariat, on hip hop is entirely unproblematic.

Just because Kanye is a dick doesn't mean the Slate piece doesn't have a good point. It isn't even arguable that Kanye West is comparable to a top line rock star, and Kimmel's mocking of that statement carries a whiff of out and out delegitimization of an entire music genre that just so happens to be dominated by…

I wonder which one will be less like Egyptian mythology?

ITT: people who don;t realize that Egyptian gods were frequently entirely anthropomorphized.

"Cumberbatch recently told The Guardian that Assange sent him a “10-page e-mail” urging him not to accept the role"

Eh, I found it pretty meh. It was well acted and written, but over directed in the Masterpiece Theater, kind of amateurish way. For a book that is so dependent on it visuals, I thought that was a problem.

Do these people watch David Lean's version and think "Yeah, I think this needs some fixing. We'll probably find someone better than Alec Guinness to play Herbert."?

The Taliban is primarily Pakistani and was not formed for many years after the US stopped funding to Afghanistan (and actually it was indirect funding through the ISI). Although some of the leadership of Al Qaeda cut its teeth in Afghanistan, foreign fighters were a pitifully insignificant factor in the mujahadeen.

Pretty much none of the people the CIA armed became Taliban or Al Qaeda. Don't beat yourself up about it, is IS hard to keep brown people straight, particularly when they are Muslim!

Song brought to you by man who created TV show in a universe that is half Chinese but no Asian characters.

To be perfectly honest, I was not expecting Brett to end up as the more successful of the two. Jemaine is already stuck with bit parts in second rate movies.

I get that we are supposed to like Ellen Degeneres or somthing, but on her show she is the most boringly inoffensive and whitebread host imaginable and she will be a bland and stale Oscar host.

I am rather more concerned with how NBC will report on the ongoing genocide in Chechnya, which happens to be right next to Sochi.

You tink dat's bad? Remember the the time we were held hostage by the Shabaab?

I actually really liked Seth MacFarlane as Oscar host, but that is because I loathe the Academy organization and wholeheartedly support anything that pisses it off or makes it look bad.

It's almost as though someone crazy enough to try to shoot the president to impress the KGB might not act perfectly rationally.