If a semi-famous comedian can publicly solicit money to make a documentary about how much the people you disagree with suck, then they're doing a terrible job of threatening your free speech rights.

Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Kingpin, Mephisto… and that's just off the top of my head.

I'm pretty sure he just promised to fuck the winner. The man will be the highest paid hooker since Indecent Proposal.

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The left's base isn't literally socialist by and large. They are people who generally believe in important controls on corporate America's ability to rape, pillage, and generally behave like Vikings to the lower classes. But "how do we motivate and unite both young idealists and members of the various minority…

Hell, the problem with the election results was 85% examined not by asking "Why isn't the left's diverse, socialist-y base that excited about voting for a friend of Wall Street who diagnosed young black men as super-predators?" but instead as "How can we win back white racists?"

I don't think "they just aren't my thing" would've drawn the snark. Like a lot of Boomers, his "I don't care for the latest crazes" is being presented as "I am clearly superior to whatever it is they're doing now," which is pretty obnoxious even when the guy saying it has arguably earned it.

Sure he does. Parties aren't elected on one mass ticket. He doesn't get impeached if he refuses to endorse Trump. You just tell the voters "Hey, I still believe in conservativism; I'll study each policy proposal and vote in favor of the ones that are consistent with my views. But I'm not going to publicly endorse…

Look, I know he played Batman and everything, but we don't have to pretend this is good, right? If so, we might as well all just get tickets to see Leto's band and some Jay-Z vodka and lean into the skid.

Hell, he's openly insulted or been insulted by about half of them. And not the usual political stuff like "his tax plan is pure fantasy," but like "your wife's a beast and your dad killed Kennedy."

The readers seem less hivemind-y then one might have expected when turned loose for anonymous voting. Batman v. Superman is the worst movie of the year but the AVC was wrong for panning it.

There are a number of reports that people's opinions on the state of American race relations have gotten worse under Obama. The lesson right wing news sources take from this is "Obama has failed to fix us," and not "Gosh, maybe constant questions about his birth certificate and whether he's a real American weren't a…

Honestly, is this that surprising? It's two celebrities known for thin skin, saying inflammatory things, and sometimes having a tenuous grip on reality. These are natural bros.

Hey, an author I've never heard of is teamed up with an infamous celebrity trainwreck! "They're each other's muses" is clearly the most plausible explanation for this pairing.

I'd put money on it being more "Snipes had the rough outline of an idea, and then hired a guy to write it down."

This book is kinda gross, and the fact that it exists does as much to explain modern day Scientology than it sounds like anything inside does. If his father is willing to publish a tell-all about what an asshole he is, it reveals a lot about what might be going on with Miscavige the Younger.

"Eh, people should not underestimate him. Him antagonizing China is nothing new and part of his policy."

My handful of "intellectual conservative" acquaintances, have, to the man, disavowed Trump. The people who actually voted for him are the shrieking loons I blocked. The closest thing to a rational defense of him I've seen starts with some version of "He's probably lying about all those deportation plans, and I don't…

"I'm going to pack up and move to another country" is something you can only really do with enough money and credentials to make it unnecessary. As such, it's usually a completely idle threat, the liberal version of the Fox newshound's Dorrito dust-covered calls for succession.

I went to a mid-level state school and one of my professors stumbled over a previously uncollected Nathaniel Hawthorne letter that appeared in a journal with his introduction. If something is previously unpublished, it likely means there's only one copy, which is pretty different even than comparing first editions…