Still a damn site better than the racist "jokes" that conservative media outlets come saddled with.

"Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove has lost some of its fun in recent months, when things like “war with Russia” and “the complete nuclear annihilation of the Earth” stopped seeming like cautionary tales of a bygone era, and started seeming like potential headlines on tomorrow’s newspapers."

Disagree. Mainstream journalism from the latter part of the 20th century kills what we have now.

Absolutely. Also the costs of consumer technology are not coming down the way they use to.

But … I thought Trump was bringing them all back?

Having that third category, "problematic", seems a little too nuanced for the all new HuffPost to me.

Nice response! Very educational. Are/were you a law major?

Right, that explains a lot. I think it those elements inspired by that trauma that jar with me.

The French have passed some crazy laws though - one province tried to ban burkhinis, and the police were happy to manhandle "offenders".

I think they'd say it's an issue for the states (hence attacking the 14th Amendment (I always thought without the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights would essentially be powerless rhetoric)). But that would still be big government though, although state government.

Have we hit rock bottom yet on the internet? Surely, the only way is up.

Still, anything's better than the sidebar though, right?

It wasn't that long ago we used to have websites like Dissolve.

But does that mean I'm letting them win?

Good advice.

It's the way all these sites have been for a while. Clickbait headlines about a target the readership despises (avclub articles about Infowars; Breitbart articles about Lena Dunham for example), a few snarky points in the main body of text but no real substance, then watch the comments, clicks and shares pile up.

Just read this comment about banning the practice of Islam on HuffPost:

I preferred it when people didn't name new discoveries after pop-culture references. If T-Rex was discovered today, he would most likely be called Infowarsasaurus.

Yeah, I saw these a few years back. Just awful. I found they left a really bad taste in the mouth, especially with the incestuous pedophilia overtones.

It's nice to see Elton John getting acting work again. He was, if I remember rightly, pretty good in the early 70s.