Alas, yeah. The Republican assault on education and critical thinking plus religious militaristic wingnut zealotry has delivered us a nation where half the adults are stone fucking morons who think reading books is for f ags. Guns are awesome though. Pretty dismal situation, as they absorb Fox News every day and…

"Wish I'd been around and reading then. Spies & Sorcery double feature, heavy in the pop-art. You can see why Marvel stuff was so popular on college campuses in the 60s." - Holy smokes, LBJ, you are on my wavelength there. Kirby and Ditko and Steranko making mind-blowing images and pop art . I wish I was around…

Hi Paul, I respect you very much as well. I am feeling abashed today for the intemperance of what I wrote here Saturday night, after a bottle of wine. I had come from reading tons and tons of condemnations elsewhere, and I really ought to have tempered myself and avoided seeming like someone spoiling for a fight. …

Mown lawns smell nice. I'm so glad the job goes to my nephew about to turn 13 I think, egads. he's well-rewarded though. I commiserate with him all the time about how mowing lawns both sucks but isn't that bad, and slap him a $20 even though I'm usually brokeass myself. A mown lawn is a nice smell, and I embrace…

Amazon had a one-day sale on Marvel Comics Kindle volumes yesterday- hey, you want all those expensive $50 books of 60s/70s classics? How does $3.40 sound??? Em?, hey, hey hey? And how'd you like to mow my lawn, mm??

Your weekly viewing choice give me comfort in this uncertain world.

Thank you. I appreciate that you realize you have no reasonable response yourself- I would have appreciated a discussion, but apparently my potty mouth and experience as a despised minority who lived and fought through an epidemic plague in the 80s might not have compared to your offense that Bill Maher said a bad…

You can be offended all you want. And if you really think, "Bill Maher is everything is wrong with America" then you are easily distracted from the profoundly malignant things that Republicans on power are doing right now , on an institutional level, with actual power, under a crazed President Trump, where they are…

Very good, and I appreciate reading your thoughts. Hope your weekend is going well.

Thanks, but I'm not sure what "we" you mean.

OH so sorry if my curse-words offended you.

What's lost is that the utterly off-the cuff joke wasn't that Maher just saying the N-word; Ben Sasse invited him, weirdly, to say Bill would be invited to "work in the fields" in Nebraska. Bill tried to make a funny that he wasn't a field-hand, he was alluding to the very well-known difference about the…

Between the original report and this update giving Republican Ben Sasse some really generous real estate faithfully replicating his tweets as he tries to zoom miles from this "controversy". there's already 4,000 comments on AV Club.

Don't they have room for another 40 or so guest stars? Is this a concert or a weekend festival like Woodstock? Why does Miley Cyrus need to be there? I thought I'd seen bandwagons before, this one's mightily jumpedon. How will Manchester's airport deal with all the private planes flying in, so so many egos can get…

Uh, she actually did stand up for her creative expression and said she wouldn't stop making fun of Trump. Granted, this press conference was apparently a half-hour long, but I read she actually did do a lot of what you accused her of not doing in your last paragraph. But I suppose everyone feels the need to burn…

seems to have entered this new phase of his life and career with, let’s call it, more of a moral compass.

That's my fear, that there will be violence if Trump is indicted or impeached or otherwise deposed. But one thing to remember is that a lot of these supporters are just shit-talkers on the internet, they like to rile each other up in armed insurrection talk. Trying to out-macho each other in their racist fucked-up…

They're just exploiting the deep divisions and fissures in US society that already existed. Exacerbated and inflamed by Fox News and the entire right-wing ecosphere for years and years. And depending on the deep stupidity, irrational anger, and gullibility of people who consume that media for their worldview. …

And no spinning with starbursts.

Really petty of me but.. the very beginning is "Good morning! This is WWOR TV in New York, a member of Associated Independent Stations..". Anyway, Wonder Woman was on CBS, not shoestring local Ch.9, and it was not on in the morning. Duh. Whoever made this was really lazy about that intro bumper, I guess they…